Flaked oat and Flaked barley?

[solo103]

Hi I am doing a wake n bake stout clone and was going to use Flaked oats and Flaked barley along with chocolate malt,black patent malt and black barley. I have heard some things on using Flaked malts that they have to be mashed with base malt. I am going to combine all the malts above in a sac bag and steep them in 2 gallons of water at 155 for 40 minutes (i call this a mini mash) before removing and bringing to boil to add my light D.M.E. Will this work I am am assuming it will since it is being combined with the other malts and that that is what people mean when they say mash with other base malts.


thanxs CHEERS!

 

[jeepinjeepin]

Highly kilned malts have had their enzymes denatured by the heat of kilning. You need a pilsner, pale, or other light malt to provide the enzymes for conversion. I would also mash a little lower. Maybe 152-153. Your DME may be slightly less fermentable that grain wort, but you can make up for it with a lower mash temp.

 

[solo103]

So should I add one lighter malt since the others are all dark Malt or would it still work with darker Malts also I found malted oats would it just be easier to substitute it for the flakes oats?