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Malt Extract Going Bad?
Hello,
I found some old, reaaaally old malt extract that my dad used, my guess is it's from 1986. The cans are small, (for 4.5L) and is "Oliver's Choice English Malt Liquid Extract". The are expanded on the top and bottom.
I was wondering if it was too old to toss in an experimental beer batch. My idea is that boiling should kill off most of what could possibly be in it, if there is at all.
Thank you for your time,
-Guy
Possibly from 1986???
Toss it. I wouldn't even think twice about it. 1 year old, yeah, but THAT old.... oh hell no. Boiling is not going to help with extract that old.
Throw it away.
cubx wrote:
Possibly from 1986???
Toss it. I wouldn't even think twice about it. 1 year old, yeah, but THAT old.... oh hell no. Boiling is not going to help with extract that old.
Throw it away.
I agree. Boiling will kill any nasties but it won't change the taste and if the can is bulging on top and bottom it's gone into spoi mode. It will still taste spoiled.
DC
Thanks, I was kinda thinking that might be the case, my dad was trying to convince me that it was still use able, but to him if it hasn't grown legs and is crawling across the counter it's still good.
Some things can be pushed beyond expiration. When I started scavenging yeast, I was told over and over that if the yeast is more than 1 month old, toss it, then another brewer said 3 months is long enough. I have let mine go 9 months before repitching without a problem.
I take expiration dates as a guideline. It just depends on what it is. I've seen canned food in garages that sat there for 2 or 3 years, which can be acceptable. When I worked in a grocery store back in 1991, one of my coworkers found some canned food (I forget what) dated 1979. He threw it away. How it managed to last 12 years on the shelf unnoticed is beyond me.
If I ever found canned food more than 3 years old, I would throw it out. No question.
Hey GuyNMT, I wouldn't even open that stuff to taste it, just throw it out, you can get botchulism from bloated cans. Probably the nastiest form of food poisoning known to man.
Yeah bulging cans are bad news.
Send it to the CDC for research.
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