BBS Kits - Couple questions...

[brandon27]

Hey there... last year my wife had got me a BBS kit. I brewed their IPA, and the chestnut brown ale, both with great results (even though I added the hops in the wrong order with the IPA).

I have two more BBS kits laying around, and they've been around for a year or so.

So the question becomes... do they expire? Will they still be good? I know the box says they should be used within a certain time frame. I also think the yeast packs have expiry dates on them, so i figure it's useless now. But will the grains still be ok to use? If so, can I just head out and buy any form of brewers yeast to replace the yeast that came with the kits? Or am I looking at the unfortunate situation of life consuming all of my time and these two kits are just.... trash now?

 

[TonyKZ1]

You could send them an email asking them, as their customer support/service is excellent, but most likely the recipes & yeast are fine. I'm sure you'll still have beer if you brew them up. Or you could go ahead and buy a new package of yeast and split that between both of them too.

 

[brandon27]

You could send them an email asking them, as their customer support/service is excellent, but most likely the recipes & yeast are fine. I'm sure you'll still have beer if you brew them up. Or you could go ahead and buy a new package of yeast and split that between both of them too.

Awesome. Thanks. I figured the yeast would be useless at this point, but I hoped the grains would still be fine, they're sealed up.

I dont really have a brew shop anywhere conveniently close to me. I was going to head down to the bulk food store where in the past I picked up my corn sugar to prime as they sell brewers yeast as well. That... should be what I need from a yeast perspective? Or am I best to order some from somewhere online and.... wait.. lol

Short of that, maybe ill try and reach out to them tomorrow.

 

[C-Rider]

Awesome. Thanks. I figured the yeast would be useless at this point, but I hoped the grains would still be fine, they're sealed up.

I dont really have a brew shop anywhere conveniently close to me. I was going to head down to the bulk food store where in the past I picked up my corn sugar to prime as they sell brewers yeast as well. That... should be what I need from a yeast perspective? Or am I best to order some from somewhere online and.... wait.. lol

Short of that, maybe ill try and reach out to them tomorrow.

I don't know anything about brewers yeast....but don't spend extra money for corn sugar. Regular Table Sugar works just fine.

 

[NSMikeD]

The yeast is the nutritional yeast (never tried it to brew or for diet and of course not for breast milk production lol )

It's the same species but a by product of the brewing industry. Get your hands on a yeast meant for the style of beer you are brewing.