msk
04-24-2006, 11:05 PM
I just visited an old buddy and snagged up his home brewing supplies [ale pail, bottling bucket, carboys, corny's, pots, recepie books, extracts]. In the piles were a couple exceptionally old extract bags and canned kits [from the years 1998-2000 accodring to the 'best when used by' dates]
The british pale malt dry extract was not rock hard, so it looked useable and tasty [it is fermenting now with fresh SAF-33, fresh hops, and a rock hard pound of amber DME that dissolved]. I opened some 'extra pale' LME that was black and smelled of molases. . . I suspect that it was not originally that color [it was all in a garage for 5 years or so, going from 20 degrees to 100 degrees F over the course of a year]
As for the yeast, it came with canned brown and canned smoked ale kits. I rehydrated the yeast that came with the brown, and I tossed in a teaspoon of sugar, and to my disappointment, it formed a karusen [disappointing because now I wonder if it is safe and now I refuse to throw it away]
Would a foil pack of yeast that suffered garage-syndrome for 5-7 years be safe? Something in there is alive. . . I just wonder what
The british pale malt dry extract was not rock hard, so it looked useable and tasty [it is fermenting now with fresh SAF-33, fresh hops, and a rock hard pound of amber DME that dissolved]. I opened some 'extra pale' LME that was black and smelled of molases. . . I suspect that it was not originally that color [it was all in a garage for 5 years or so, going from 20 degrees to 100 degrees F over the course of a year]
As for the yeast, it came with canned brown and canned smoked ale kits. I rehydrated the yeast that came with the brown, and I tossed in a teaspoon of sugar, and to my disappointment, it formed a karusen [disappointing because now I wonder if it is safe and now I refuse to throw it away]
Would a foil pack of yeast that suffered garage-syndrome for 5-7 years be safe? Something in there is alive. . . I just wonder what