Storing Whole Grains

[tavish2]

I guess I should pipe in with my solution. I dont bother with air tight anything. I have some bins with a flip top that is far from air tight. The grain is stored in the sacks that they come in. I keep them cool around 50F and I brew often enough that I never have a sack of grain for longer than 4 months.

[SunkenBier]

I use vittle vaults for my grain storage. THey can each hold one sack of grain.

[MattSF]

I use vittle vaults for my grain storage. THey can each hold one sack of grain.

those are cool, where did you get those/what is the product name?

[Bellmer]

I use vittle vaults for my grain storage. THey can each hold one sack of grain.

those are cool, where did you get those/what is the product name?

I'm not even going to comment on the barbies on the wall.

Those are neat storage containers, though. Do you put just the grains in there, or the grains still in the sack? If you put just the grains in there, do you find it difficult to get them back out? I imagine, if that is the case, you'll have to pull them off the shelf, open them, get them out, and then hoist them back up. That would get annoying with 55 lb. of grain to me. Unless of course those load differently than they look like they do.

[BigNastyBrew]

If I'm not mistaken, you can get vittles vaults from petco, petsmart, etc.

You can really fit a whole sack in there? If so, I'm in!

[SunkenBier]

Yea you can get vittle vaults at petco and online. THe large ones can fit a whole sack, i just dump the grain in. If you look in the back on the ground I have a different vittle vault container with a diagonal angled lid. Those can hold a sack and a half.

Yes the vittle vaults open from the top and I just lift them off the shelf when I use one. Its not difficult to scoop when its upright. I have a container for each specialty malt and use the diagonal ones for my base malts.

[Grist Licker]

I have seen the vittles vaults (or something like it) at Costco. Hey BigNasty, I recently made a bulk malt and hops purchase from http://www.countrymaltgroup.com/ and and I'm pretty happy with the price and the product. I would be interested in going in on a larger bulk purchase with a group of locals.

Where are you placing your bulk order?

[BigNastyBrew]

I have seen the vittles vaults (or something like it) at Costco. Hey BigNasty, I recently made a bulk malt and hops purchase from http://www.countrymaltgroup.com/ and and I'm pretty happy with the price and the product. I would be interested in going in on a larger bulk purchase with a group of locals.

Where are you placing your bulk order?

I hadn't narrowed it down yet. I WAS in a group buy on the HBT forum but those guys never went through with it.

Since I'm leaving for Germany in 18 days, I don't want to order just yet. Probably first of June after I get back.

I'm down for a group buy if we can get them cheaper. I'm only figuring some base malts right now. Maybe Pils, MO, American 2-Row, and a Wheat (maybe).