Preparing Malt & Grains To Home Brew Stout Beer

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mark on behalf of Expert Village and it's finally time to start brewing. One of our first steps is going to be to add our liquid extract to hot water to help liquefy it further. Now we are going to start adding water to our kettle and heating it up so we can steep our grains. Since we have a large amount of steeping grains, we are going to add one point five to two gallons. After we've added the water, we are going to turn on the heat and start aiming for a temperature of one-hundred and sixty-five degrees. Now we are going to add our grains to our steeping bag. We are either going to use a muslin sack or a nylon sack. You are just going to take your grains, put the end in the bag, and start shaking it in. Some dust will come off, that's why you want to do this over the sink. For this much grain, you might want to use two steeping bags to allow better extraction from the grain. Now that we've got our temperature where we want it, we are going to start steeping our grains. We're going to turn off the heat. Now that our water is ready, we are going to add our steeping grains into the water. We are going to push them in and gently agitate them around so that the flavors, the colors and also the sugars can be extracted into the water. If you have two bags, you can go ahead and put the other one in. We want our temperature to stabilize around one-hundred and fifty to one-hundred and sixty degrees. When it's gotten there, you want to make sure that you turn off the heat, put a lid on, and you are going to let it sit for half an hour. So let's go get a timer and start that up. "