is my grain good to brew with
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:23 pm
by norfire0
I bought 11lb pale malt and had it milled.
I did not get a chance to brew.
Now I am wounding if my malt might be stale/ bad to be with.
The milled pale malt will be two Weeks old by the time I plan to brew.
It was at 70° in a brown bag taped inside a garbage bag.
Re: is my grain good to brew with
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:51 pm
by BDawg
Honestly, I don't know. On the plus side, it's been wrapped (inside paper that was) inside plastic.
Regardless, this would be an EXCELLENT experiment. You would be able to report back to the Army whether 2 weeks inside of a brown bag inside of a garbage bag is ok. Worst thing is you have an oxidized beer that you might be able to throw some bugs into.
Re: is my grain good to brew with
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 7:06 pm
by Bobbie Dooley
Chew on it, you should be able to taste any staleness.
Re: is my grain good to brew with
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 7:32 pm
by Stinkfist
I think you will be fine at 2 weeks....once you hit a month though I think you will have issues...
Re: is my grain good to brew with
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 10:58 pm
by norfire0
BDawg wrote: Worst thing is you have an oxidized beer that you might be able to throw some bugs into.
Do you mean to say bugs will clean up oxidized beer?
Re: is my grain good to brew with
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 10:59 pm
by norfire0
I'll taste it and go from there
Re: is my grain good to brew with
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:46 pm
by norfire0
So I brewed. I forgot to use my 5.2 stabilizer. My Ph test strip did not match the color pattern exactly. I think it was ph of 5. 11lb pale in 5gal ” drinking water”.
Hope there's no problems