Poor storage 2row malt... Question

I have a 50b sack open (uncrushed) stored for 2.5 months in a hot humid garage... Looks fine but what do you guys think? Still ok to brew with?

saeroner said:

I have a 50b sack open (uncrushed) stored for 2.5 months in a hot humid garage... Looks fine but what do you guys think? Still ok to brew with?

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Taste it. If it tastes stale or "off", then it's no good. If it tastes good, then it's fine.

Yooper said:

Taste it. If it tastes stale or "off", then it's no good. If it tastes good, then it's fine.

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roomate and i just tasted it. Taste slightly less crunchy a tad bit stale...

Damn i brewed a whole batch last week with it... hope it's ok..

saeroner said:

roomate and i just tasted it. Taste slightly less crunchy a tad bit stale...



Damn i brewed a whole batch last week with it... hope it's ok..

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While this beer likely won't win any awards, I doubt there will be anything "bad" about it....beer is pretty resilient.

Don't worry about it, just learn and move on.

I keep grain in buckets with probably not airtight lids for a year + and so far so good. Also in a muggy, and sometimes hot basement.

Buy a couple 5 gal buckets and Gamma Seal lids for storage, or some of those airtight pet food containers. A small investment to make your grain stay fresh much longer.

MaxStout said:

Buy a couple 5 gal buckets and Gamma Seal lids for storage, or some of those airtight pet food containers. A small investment to make your grain stay fresh much longer.

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I use the gamma seal lids, and they work great. Probably the cheapest way to store bulk grain. I'm currently using 8 buckets/gamma seal lids! A Home Depot orange bucket and a gamma seal lid stores about 22 lbs. of grain, in my experience. So basically once I open a sack and use a few pounds in a recipe, I can split the remainder between 2 buckets.