Old Tin

[spuds]

Friend was cleaning out basement and he came across an old tin of Brew Canada Lager. Yeast best before date was 1999 lol. Going to replace the yeast and a kg of ldm. What do yas think of brewing something that old?

[derek]

I think the yeast is almost certainly in better shape than the tin of extract.

I made an IPA last weekend and realized half-way through that I hadn't checked on the availability of one key ingredient: yeast. So I dug through the freezer and found a sachet of Danstar Nottingham that wasn't due to expire until this year, and a couple of Danstar Windsor's that were dated March 1999. I rehydrated them and put the 2 packs of Windsor in one carboy and the Nottingham in the other. The Windsor was working well before the Nottingham. Now, it remains to be seen how it tastes

[Tony L]

Friend was cleaning out basement and he came across an old tin of Brew Canada Lager. Yeast best before date was 1999 lol. Going to replace the yeast and a kg of ldm. What do yas think of brewing something that old?

If the yeast had an expiry date of 99 than I would suspect the LME was also expired. The trouble with LME that old is oxygenation of
the extract. I'd throw it out.

[amartin]

It's probably crap, but I'd be tempted to try fermenting it anyway with a fresh yeast, just to see how it goes.

[spuds]

Think what I might do is can plus 12 liters water and maybe a bit of hops that way I am out nothing. should end up around 5 %

[spuds]

Put er down today. Contents were some dark but smelled fine just a little roasted. Boiled for 20 min. Hope it is drinkable, will let yas know.

[spuds]

Just a quick ? Since I brewed half the reg.(12 liters) amount do I use half the priming sugar?

[jeffsmith]

Just a quick ? Since I brewed half the reg.(12 liters) amount do I use half the priming sugar?

I quite often use the Tastybrew bottling priming calculator to make sure I get the right amount of sugar.

[spuds]

Thanks Jeff