Bread, dog treats and chicken feed.
This is is why I did only the back yard and only a small amount. I used maybe 3 or 4 big handfuls for roughly 150 square feet of lawn 3 days with a day in between each dose.
I feed it to my chickens , they love it .
That fried chicken looks pretty tasty tho
I feed it to my chickens , they love it .
That fried chicken looks pretty tasty tho
I was looking at the beautiful bread in post 24. I'll try the granola bars, too. Thank you.
Thanks again. Now I'm hungry.
I turn the spent grains into milk. That is, I feed them to my goats and they give me milk back! I've never seen a goat drool until I started giving them the spent grain.
That looks good enough to eat.
So, hulls and all, huh? I'm really lazy, so I use a bread machine. Do you replace flour with spent grain? What proportion for a trial run? Do you add extra sugar to make up for 'expended' grain?
Dog treats....the day before brew day, my "co-brewer (my beautiful wife) posts on the neighborhood website that we are brewing and stop by to pick up a bag of spent grain for making dog treats. I put 4 cups of spent grain in each zip lock bag and my wife prints off copies of the dog treat recipe for those who want to bake the biscuits. Brew day is like a neighborhood get together. Now if I can only get them to help me clean the brew equipment afterwards....;-)
Dog treats....the day before brew day, my "co-brewer (my beautiful wife) posts on the neighborhood website that we are brewing and stop by to pick up a bag of spent grain for making dog treats. I put 4 cups of spent grain in each zip lock bag and my wife prints off copies of the dog treat recipe for those who want to bake the biscuits. Brew day is like a neighborhood get together. Now if I can only get them to help me clean the brew equipment afterwards....;-)
so you can just dry them in the oven and use them for baking afterwards??Additional tips:
Drying spent grain: spread thin on a cookie sheet, put your oven on low (200 or less) View attachment 547774
This will take a couple hours.
Stir about every half hour (the grains toward the outer edges of the cookie sheet will dry faster than those in the middle). Stir every half hour or so until they’re all dry.
Store in a container.
Right after brewing, you’re not about to spend a day drying grain. Store in gallon freezer bags until ready to use.
To turn dried spent grain into flour, a coffee grinder worked 1,000 times better than the Ninja blender/processor/ whatever you call it.
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so you can just dry them in the oven and use them for baking afterwards??
Dog treats....the day before brew day, my "co-brewer (my beautiful wife) posts on the neighborhood website that we are brewing and stop by to pick up a bag of spent grain for making dog treats. I put 4 cups of spent grain in each zip lock bag and my wife prints off copies of the dog treat recipe for those who want to bake the biscuits. Brew day is like a neighborhood get together. Now if I can only get them to help me clean the brew equipment afterwards....;-)
Probably true, but they'd have to test for it specifically.
I recall this from last year: https://naturalnews.com/2016-04-13-...ve-toxic-chemical-levels-in-their-bodies.html
Obviously the source is a bit biased, but this was reported elsewhere too.
Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk assessment said the levels did not pose a risk to consumers’ health.
“An adult would have to drink around 1,000 liters (264 U.S. gallons) of beer a day to ingest enough quantities to be harmful for health,” it said in a statement."
I put mine out in the woods for the deer. They love it. I love venison. It all works out.
Feed them the grain, get them fat....
.....then give them more grain! [emoji899]
Dog treats. We call them Brewscuits. The neighbour's chocolate lab goes nuts over them. Although, truthfully, she is a Lab.... and will go nuts over most food. We don't own a dog, so the Brewscuits get doled out to friends who have dogs. Kinda liking the idea of giving them grains and the recipe though. [emoji4]
My sister has chickens, so sometimes there is an egg/grain swap. The rest goes to. The compost pile.
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I use a recipe I found at the AHA site.Those look great any particular recipe you follow?
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