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Hi, I'm Mark Emiley 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 colors, the flavors 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.