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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?

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

spuds wrote: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.

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

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 %

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.

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

spuds wrote: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.

Thanks Jeff