Need help

[bottlebass]

I have 8 ozs of Crystal malt, 8 ozs of Malto-Dextrin and 4 ozs of Black patent malt. Do I steep these all at 1 time or do I do it seperatly? Through em' all in 1 bag? Never done this before. This is a Bock with 6#'s amber lme.

[Tweek]

all at once, all in the same bag.

[bottlebass]

Will I do this in the 3 gallons of boiled water or in a smaller amount of water? This will be for a 5 gallon batch.

[Tweek]

I used to do it in about 3 gallons of water, I would then rinse the sack when I was done with the additional 2 gallons. My suggestion would be to make the "tea" in teh largest volume of water you can. All water added after the fact will only dilute it.

[BrewDog]

Make sure that you keep the temp below 170. You will extract off flavors (tannins) that will make the beer astringent if the steep is too hot.

155 is a good temp for doing this.

Welcome to the board, too.

HTH-

[HogieWan]

Make sure you remember to leave room in the pot for the extract. Just about every time I brew, I realize the wort is too big after adding the extract to it.