Old stuff

[Mrobs]

Hi I feel embaressed to ask this Having decided to come back to brewing after a lay off i have come across some old stuff with my brewing gear and dont know if its usable. its a brewers choice best bitter with a bbe 30 june 2005 and muntons beerkit enhancer bbe 30 april 2006.

Cheers

[sparky Paul]

They should be fine, but it would be advisable to replace the yeast in the Brupaks kit.

I've used old yeast, but you're better safe than sorry!

[Stonch]

From what I understand bitter kit/tin will be ok, but you will need a new yeast sachet.

Dunno about the beer kit enhancer (BKE), but in any event, having just used it to make up a batch and then tried it from primary, I think using 100% spray malt as opposed to BKE is the way forward - the BKE, being a mix of sugar and spray malt, imparts dodgy flavours

[J_P]

You could always boil up the old yeast as nutrient for the new yeast rather than simply just binning it - Waste not want not!

[stevezx7r]

My Bupaks Linthwaite Light was around 8 years old and 5 years out of date (iirc) and that went perfect although I didn't use the yeast that came with it but ended up using it in another brew anyway - which worked too.

Me thinks Home Brew technology has come a long way since the eighties.

[Mrobs]

Ok great thanks for the advice, this will be my next brew.

Cheers

[GTATTY]

Throw it all in and see how it is.
If it's good then great, but if it's bad then at least you've not spent anything


Regs

Graham