Steeped oats?

[Llamaman]

i was looking for an extract saison recipe and found this one;
https://blog.eckraus.com/saison-beer-recipe-all-grain-extract
But the recipe calls for steeped oats. I thought oats needed mashing to add anything to the wort?
Am I missing something? Will it add mouthfeel but not sugars?

 

[Zephyr259]

Yeah... That's going to add a bunch of starch assuming it even leaches into the water effectively. I was wondering if they were using a saison/Brett blend as then the starch would be handy but they're not.

 

[Dutto]

I've never just steeped oats.

I use the cheapest oats available, toast them to give them that extra bit of flavour and then add them to the mash with the rest of the grain bill..

 

[Mr Fro]

Standby for some experiment results on this one - I've got a brew on the go now in which I did some oat steepage.

All I can say so far is that it was cloudy as heck to start with but the majority of it precipitated out pretty quickly. I was expecting it to effect the OG but it doesn't seem to have done so.

Bottling due the end of next week...

 

[Llamaman]

I think maybe it's just a sloppy AG conversion - the only other steeping grain in crystal (with no diastatic power) so it's not a partial mash.