Crushed, poor crush, not crushed

Briess Caramel 60
Crushed, poor crush, not crushed.
What do you think?

d) all of the above

thughes said:

d) all of the above

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Ha! Kind of what I was thinking. Just looking for a sanity check.

These were ordered as not crushed. It was a one pound bag, so could be an old abused one pulled from the shelf.

Probably the bottom of the bag. Been lifted and plopped back down a lot of times.

That's probably it. I'd say that about a third of the husks are broken. There's even some flower in there.

Not something you'd think would be sold as not crushed. I don't have any immediate use for it. Planned on storing it for a while, but don't like the idea of hanging onto crushed grain. Probably be fine, but for the cost I'd rather know I'm starting with something fresh ground. Sad, but tossing it.

Out of curiousity, who was the distributor on that? I've gotten some "uncrushed" bags of various crystal malts from LD Carlson that look kind of like that as well. Has been throwing me off but decided not to worry about it.

its crystal so it dont need to convert, dont that make storing less of an issue?
How long was you planning on storing it?

I wouldn't chuck it. A lot of the bags of grain I have in storage have junk like that in the bottom of them. No biggie....

Hammy71 said:

I wouldn't chuck it. A lot of the bags of grain I have in storage have junk like that in the bottom of them. No biggie....

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If it were the bottom of my bag, I'd have had the use of everything up to that point. Not the same as getting only the "bottom of the barrel." When it gets to this point, I'd think that the vendor would save it for someone requesting crushed grain and provide the customer with the product that he requested.



I'd give it away, but it'd cost more to ship than it's worth.