Moezart
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Hello everyone,
I am an all-grain brewer. I live in a country where homebrewing supplies (of any kind) aren't available anywhere, therefore I resort to malting my own grains. For the past three years, I haven't had any issues as far as malting is concerned.
Today, I took my malt out of homemade grain-dryer and I see pockets of mold scattered around as shown in pix below. Not all of the Malt is moldy, but still many pockets of it. I have never experienced such a thing before so I am not sure how to deal with it. My gut tells me to toss the whole thing out (about 20 lbs), but I figured I should get your opinion first. Maybe there is a way to salvage this thing.
Factors to consider:
-Barley was bought about 7 months ago and kept in a plastic bag in an aerated area.
-My homemade dryer may not be large enough to hold 20 lbs, grains were sitting on the drying screens in thick layers( but I have done the same before with the same method and never had such issue)
- At temp of 90F it took about 5 days straight to get the 20 lbs bone dry.
Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.
I am an all-grain brewer. I live in a country where homebrewing supplies (of any kind) aren't available anywhere, therefore I resort to malting my own grains. For the past three years, I haven't had any issues as far as malting is concerned.
Today, I took my malt out of homemade grain-dryer and I see pockets of mold scattered around as shown in pix below. Not all of the Malt is moldy, but still many pockets of it. I have never experienced such a thing before so I am not sure how to deal with it. My gut tells me to toss the whole thing out (about 20 lbs), but I figured I should get your opinion first. Maybe there is a way to salvage this thing.
Factors to consider:
-Barley was bought about 7 months ago and kept in a plastic bag in an aerated area.
-My homemade dryer may not be large enough to hold 20 lbs, grains were sitting on the drying screens in thick layers( but I have done the same before with the same method and never had such issue)
- At temp of 90F it took about 5 days straight to get the 20 lbs bone dry.
Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.