Are my grains still good?

[Bowow0708]

I ordered a couple kits from NorthernBrewer around late January this year, and they arrived a couple weeks ago. I just brewed one of the kits first, which was extract, and I was wondering if my AG kit is still good. The grain's already crushed, but while they were at a relative's house, it was snowing so temperature wasn't a problem until they sent it out at around late March to early April, when it had about a month to get to where I am.

Should I brew as soon as possible or do I have some breathing room? Because I got 4 gals of mead in my secondary fermenter that's been on for a year and I'm still looking for some wine bottles for it, so I can put my extract beer into secondary. And having my primary free for my AG kit.

Again, do I have some breathing room or I have to brew it as soon as possible?

 

[smonteton]

Im not an expert but i think you have "breathing room"

 

[RM-MN]

Grains keep pretty well, even crushed. Smell them. If they smell "off" your beer will suffer but I think you would be OK for another couple months.

 

[Bowow0708]

The grains smell fine, they smell very good actually(Yum!). I'm mostly concerned about the diastatic power of the malt.
Also, as it is my first AG batch, what's a good all purpose water to grain ratio to start out with? I'm planning to do BIAB and the kit has about 10lbs of malt in it.

 

[BlindFaith]

The grains smell fine, they smell very good actually(Yum!). I'm mostly concerned about the diastatic power of the malt.
Also, as it is my first AG batch, what's a good all purpose water to grain ratio to start out with? I'm planning to do BIAB and the kit has about 10lbs of malt in it.

Between 1.25 qt/lb and 1.5 qt/lb.....

Most stay in between at 1.33