About 4 months ago i asked a brewer friend of mine to buy me 2x25kg bags of malt from Muntons in preparation for a bunch of brews I was going to do. 1 wheat and the other a pilsner. I put them in my coolroom for storage and since then had a car accident and broke a few major bones, so havent had the chance to brew. Over the weekend I opened the pilsner only to find these little black beetles crawling on the outside of the bag and thru both bags of malt.
I know that its not possible for the maltsters to get all the bugs out of the product before its shipped, however im in a very isloated part of asia where obtaining malt is both expensive AND troublesome, esp for me at the moment, and I feel because the time duration between when I took delivery of the malt and now, its not my brewer friends responsibility.
So, considering the AG process, (mash, sparge, boil) am I faced with throwing the malt away, or, can i use it?
I know that its not possible for the maltsters to get all the bugs out of the product before its shipped, however im in a very isloated part of asia where obtaining malt is both expensive AND troublesome, esp for me at the moment, and I feel because the time duration between when I took delivery of the malt and now, its not my brewer friends responsibility.
So, considering the AG process, (mash, sparge, boil) am I faced with throwing the malt away, or, can i use it?