With all of the recent black friday deals for grain (free shipping, etc) I purchased 4 50-lb sacks of grain (munich, briess, etc). Whats a cheap + good way to store the grain? Vittles Vault Stackable 60lb containers with screw on lids look nice and the screw on lids will keep out insects but they are $50-60 a container. 5 gallon bucks with snap on lids are cheap, but i'm worried they won't keep out insects. Any suggestions?
I leave them in their original sacks, the opened flap folded over and taped down. They're placed on a sturdy wire rack, in a cool area, a small (spare) bathroom in the lower level, the part that's underground. 62-65F year round.
Smaller bags with other malts (up to 5# each) all together in lidded storage totes, also on that rack.
When storing grain for longer times, just keep an eye out for any bugs (e.g., weevils) or grain moths developing. They sometimes come inside the bags...
I store mine in containers I got at Target. I think they were $20 or $30, but I've got varying sizes, 3 for my 50 lbs bags (pale ale, pilsner, munich) and a bunch of other ones for my specialty grains. Helps me stay in stock through numerous brews.
I use 2 large totes, 1 27 gal and one 35 gal. They just fit under the post office surplus table I use as a milling station. The smaller one will hold 20 5 pound bags, the larger one 25+. The lids fit tightly, I don’t worry about bugs (of course, as a grain farmer, who knows how the grain has been stored and handled prior to reaching the end user, I don’t worry much about stored grain in general ).
+1 to the 60lb Vittle Vaults; sometimes Costco (or Sam's Club if you dont have Costco) has them as well. Gamma lids, stackable, but can be a bit of a pain to fill. We use them for dry pet food as well since we have a thieving overweight younger dog that has been known to chew through bags.
Currently, I only store grain that is 10 Lbs. or less. These are vacuum sealed and go in those larger styrofoam coolers that you would get from an order of Omaha Steaks
Same. I then place them in a 44 gallon garbage can I originally bought as a wine fermenter before deciding it was silly to make a beverage I have to wait 6 years to drink.
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