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A friend of mine dumped me a bag of malts he had lying around for like five years. It’s a kit for a Klosterbier which was stored in a plastic bag sealed with a clip, sitting on a shelf in a typical household storage room, so neither totally dark nor in bright sunlight, and slightly below average room temperature.

I’m hesitant now to heat up water and waste energy, time, hop and maybe yeast on these malts because I’m skeptic about how many enzymes are left in there. Have you ever used grains that old? Maybe I should mix them with fresh stuff?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I'd toss them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't bother using it for anything other than starters, stale oxidised malt won't make good beer. Shit it, shit out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If the grain is crushed, I probably wouldn't bother tbh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It’s uncrushed. Otherwise they’d be compost already ^^

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

wouldn't use it as it is but use it as an adjunct when you brew a similar style. fresh malt has plenty of enzymes to convert the additional starches.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That was what I came up with as a backup solution. Thanks for being reassuring 🙂