Conversation I had last night about extract batch. The final product he was trying to acheive was a light clear color for bud light drinkers.
If you steep grains for one hour, bring to boil, and dont add your extract Liquid and Dry until 30 or even 15 mins left of boil does this change the profile of you beer.
I had a 30 min discussion on this last night and my thought was both LME and DME are extracts with "base grains". Flavors and color come from the steeping process. by adding the LME and DME from 30 to 15 would achieve SG but will help in preventing the LME and DME to scorch and add more color.
The other half of the discussion was by doing this would change the entire flavor of the beer and not be what he is looking for.
I attemped to drive the point that extracts are nothing but base grains with no or little flavor and you get Color and Flavor from steeping grains. I went unheard so I figure I would ask HBT for input as this conversation must have happened before.
If you steep grains for one hour, bring to boil, and dont add your extract Liquid and Dry until 30 or even 15 mins left of boil does this change the profile of you beer.
I had a 30 min discussion on this last night and my thought was both LME and DME are extracts with "base grains". Flavors and color come from the steeping process. by adding the LME and DME from 30 to 15 would achieve SG but will help in preventing the LME and DME to scorch and add more color.
The other half of the discussion was by doing this would change the entire flavor of the beer and not be what he is looking for.
I attemped to drive the point that extracts are nothing but base grains with no or little flavor and you get Color and Flavor from steeping grains. I went unheard so I figure I would ask HBT for input as this conversation must have happened before.