So many leftover specialty grains.

[dstockwell]

Was doing inventory so I could order my next malts. Holy smokes, now I know I probably should not have done this but to late now, just combined them sealed in food saver.

About 10 small amounts of grains: 1 - 4 oz each ended up with 2 pounds - kitchen sink specialty grains.

Victory
Carapils
Carafoam
CaraVienna
Special roast
Crystal 40
Crystal 120
Biscuit
Aromatic
Cara Wheat

Yea so in the future I'll never be able to repeat a recipe, but just so many bags laying around. Guess I could just use this when i get odd amounts of base and join the two.

 

[flars]

You could use the grains in bread and pizza dough.

 

[kh54s10]

I would have ordered more of each and poured the 1-4 ounces into the new and kept them on hand for new recipes. I order most of my specialty grains in 1-5 pound increments to have on hand. I then make up a recipe, go to my grain stock, measure it out and brew away!

Kitchen sink brew! It will never be repeated, but it might be good.

 

[soccerdad]

If they are whole, you can keep them for a year or more if you store them in a cool dry place. (Who really knows when you buy specialty barley what the crop year was?) If they are crushed, use them up. Give them away, bake then in bread or dough, feed them to the chickens .... better yet, make that kitchen sink brew.

 

[Atlmustang]

Just get 12 pounds of 2 row and mix this concoction in and see what you get!

According to Beersmith you'd end up with something at around 1.075 SG and 11.5 SRM.

 

[dstockwell]

I just switched from buying crushed on-line to buying whole. Will start grinding my own after I use the 15lbs of crushed I still have. So I will likely keep these for kitchen sink, they are sealed in food saver now so should be good for some time.

 

[madscientist451]

Add 8-10 lbs of 2 row and brew it up. Lightly hop it as if you were making a porter or a brown ale. Maybe experiment with a dry saison yeast?
Or add some cheap apple juice and make a Graff.
I also like the idea of grinding it into flour and using it for baking.

 

[meatcleaver]

I just switched from buying crushed on-line to buying whole. Will start grinding my own after I use the 15lbs of crushed I still have. So I will likely keep these for kitchen sink, they are sealed in food saver now so should be good for some time.

since you have the food saver you should get the jar sealing attachment & a case of mason jars.
the quart jars hold a pound of grain & are perfect for keeping leftover specialty grains fresh.

 

[DaWhip]

One of the favorite beers I have made was the Wild Card kit from AHS. They guy told me that they save grains from screwed up orders in big bins, base malt in one, specialty in another. When they get full they proportion them out and mix into 12lb bags (I think). 20 bucks for Wild Card grains, a packet of Notty, and hops.

You could just do the same thing on the home scale. Mine came out to a pretty generic, but tasty, brown ale. I used it to tinker with oaking and it turned out nice.

 

[ba-brewer]

The Biscuit, Aromatic and Victory are somewhat similar malts, you could add those together and treat as just one of them from a recipe perspective. Maybe throw the CaraVienna in too.

Carapils and Carafoam could be grouped too, leaving these malts;
Special roast
Crystal 40
Crystal 120
Cara Wheat

I try to use 8oz or full pounds for my recipes to help limit the small amount of left overs.

 

[dstockwell]

Yea I'll work these in somewhere and in the future try and limit leftovers.

 

[JordanKnudson]

The Biscuit, Aromatic and Victory are somewhat similar malts, you could add those together and treat as just one of them from a recipe perspective. Maybe throw the CaraVienna in too.

Carapils and Carafoam could be grouped too, leaving these malts;
Special roast
Crystal 40
Crystal 120
Cara Wheat

I try to use 8oz or full pounds for my recipes to help limit the small amount of left overs.

Actually, he mentioned in that first post that he combined them all together already for storage, so there's no separating the specific malts out now.

 

[ba-brewer]

Thanks Jordan, guess my F from Evelyn Wood is showing. Well maybe it will help in the future.

Madscientist451 suggestion of a porter or brown ale then. I recently did an English porter with some of my leftovers/old malts.

 

[brewcat]

Kitchen sink brew! It will never be repeated, but it might be good.

Unless it is good. I still put together the recipe just in case. I did that with my pumpkin ale. I think that Leftover Pumpkin Ale might make it. I've also had the idea just to do a kitchen sink type for a pumpkin ale every year.

Oh, I guess the OP mixed all of them. Easy enough to mix some 2-row. The question is what hops and yeast?

 

[jmill]

2nd the kitchen sink brew.

My local HBS sells random mixes like this that you can just add to some 2 row.

 

[radwizard]

I wish i had your problem. Kitchen sink brews can be the best.

 

[jonny24]

A lot of my beers tend to get a few ounces of whatever is lying around. That's the only explanation when I look back at them and why I added something.