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5. The grain must be crushed to extract the flavours and
colours and other components. Each grain should be
crushed into at least 5 parts to optimise extraction.
Suppliers can crush grain for you or you can set up your own
small mill or a similar system.
6. As long as the grains are strained from the water so no
solids are added to the WilliamsWarn, which can block the
beer tap, any soaking and straining method will work.
BASE MALTS VS SPECIALTY MALTS
To make wort or the extract (concentrated wort) used in the
WilliamsWarn cans, grains commonly called Base Malts must
go through a 6-8 hour process known as the brewhouse. This
involves crushing, mashing, lautering, boiling, whirlpooling and
cooling before adding yeast to the wort in a fermenter.
This provides the sugars and proteins the yeast needs to make
beer. In the case of extract, the wort is evaporated into extract
form and put into cans.
Along with the Base Malts, Specialty Malts can be added to
add colour, flavour, body and head retention and some sugars
and proteins.
Malt extracts like those supplied by WilliamsWarn have both
Base and Specialty Malts in them. For example, our Dry Stout
has a small amount of Roasted Barley to give the black colour
and typical stout flavours.
However, Specialty Malts have the added bonus that they
don’t need to be mashed to give extra complexity to beer.
You can steep them like when making a tea with a tea-bag
and add the resulting strained water to a brew. In the water will
be an assortment of flavours and colours and other compounds.
This steeping takes 30 minutes rather than 6-8 hours so is
the perfect way to make all sorts of beers while still using
WilliamsWarn or other extracts as the base malts.
EXAMPLES OF SPECIALTY GRAINS THAT MAY BE STEEPED
ROASTED MALTS
KILNED AND ROASTED MALTS
Carapils/Carafoam/
Dextrine Malt 3°L
Pale Chocolate Malt 200°L
Honey Malt 18°L/25°L
Light Roasted Barley 300°L
Crystal/Caramel Malt 10°L
Chocolate Malts 350-475°L
Crystal/Caramel Malt 20°L
Carafa Special II 430°L
Crystal/Caramel Malt 30°L
Black Barley 500°L
Crystal/Caramel Malt 40°L
Black Patent 525°L
BACKGROUND
Along with hops, there are certain types of grains that can also
be steeped in hot water, with the resulting strained water being
added to the brew to add certain characteristics.
When used with extract as a base, steeping specialty grains is a
great way to make different beers styles and add colour, flavour,
body, head-retention and mouth-feel to a brew.
This method, known in the US as “Extract plus grains”, offers
a lot of flexibility without the need to go through the 6-8 hour
process of mashing grains, lautering, boiling, whirlpooling and
cooling.
It only requires 30 minutes and a few extra bits of equipment.
Download our Advanced Recipes pdf on our website (Additional
Downloads page) for more details on this technique.
IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES
We have a suggested method below, but as we’ve stated several
times in this manual, there are many ways to make a brew.
So it’s important you understand some important principles if
you choose to adopt your own method. These are:
1. We are using hot water when we steep so we need to be
careful that the wort is not too hot when we pitch the
yeast. With this method we are using a different method to
the Standard Method, but the volumes and temperatures
are calculated with the same principle so that the final
wort produced will be close to 25°C/77°F to reduce any
temperature shock on the yeast when it is pitched.
2. A standard water to grain ratio used is not more than
1 US gallon to 1 pound of grains. This is 3.8 Litres per
455g of grain or 1 litre per 120g. This ratio is suggested
to ensure a decent extraction of colours and flavours but to
avoid too much extraction of tannins from the grain husks.
Tannins can give a drying, puckering mouth-feel.
3. We suggest to heat the steeping water to 70°C/158°F and
then add the grains. The temperature will then drop 5°C/9ºF
when the grains are added. Steeping above 70°C/158°F
may result in excess tannin extraction and steeping
above 60°C/140°F will ensure a pasteurisation of the
grain material to reduce risk of infection so we’re targeting
65ºC/149ºF at the start of steeping once the grains are added.
4. If the amount of grain used is only 115g or less (1/4 lb),
then we suggest to use a French Coffee Press with about 1
litres (2 US pints) of 70°C/158°F water added as shown for
aroma hops in the previous chapter. Then use the Standard
Method for ingredient addition rather than the method
described below. It will not have too much effect on the
final wort temperature and is simpler.
ADDING EXTRA
MALT FLAVOURS
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