After sleeping only 3 hours I decided it would be a great idea to brew that beer I have been “planning” for a while. It’s nothing super fancy, just a New England IPA using a couple opened bags of old malt that was past their best before date (one of the bags by about 2 years). Had some old Cascade and Citra from 2021 plus 2 bags of Simcoe that the store I buy from gave away last year because it was nearing its best before date. Turned out pretty good. Going to dry hop in the keg later on. :)
nice, are you able to tell that malt was old when drinking the beer?
Not really. I tasted all the malts beforehand to make sure nothing was off but at most they tasted maybe slightly stale. During the mash it did smell kind of funky but the resulting sweet wort tasted good and when boiled plus combined with the bitterness of the hops I couldn’t tell anything was wrong. But then again my palate is not the most refined :). I’ll see how it tastes when fermentation is done.
I’d love to hear how it tastes. A friend who got out of homebrewing a few years ago just recently gave me half a sack of pale malt he still had…
