Uses For Spent Grains
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My wife uses it in bread in two ways ..... first, she dries it in the oven, then part of it goes into the bread mix whole (Think 7 grain bread, etc.), and the other part goes into the flour mill - yep, spent-grain flour! Since it has lost all or most of it's gluten in the mashing process, you can only use about 1/2 cup to 1 1/2 cups of regular whole wheat flour (ground in the same flour mill). She uses these combinations for whole wheat homemade bread, biscuits, pizza crusts, pie crusts, waffles, hotcakes etc. i.e. anything that uses dough!
We also dry and feed it to the chickens, and make doggie biscuits with it .... Brooklyn Brew Shop (http://brooklynbrewshop.com/themash/category/spentgrainchef/), Homebrew exchange (http://homebrewexchange.net/recipe/spent-grain-bread-recipe), and a lot of others on the web have all kinds of recipes using spent grains.
Great idea ;>)
That sounds like a good way to re-cyle the hops too!
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TasunkaWitko
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Wow, that is a huge list of recipes. They really went above and beyond.
My basic rule of thumb has been to substitute about 1/4 of the regular flour with spent grain and go from there.
I use no more than about 1/3 spent grain flour to regular. Seems to rise better.
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We've made spent grain pizzas and am going to start making dog biscuits for a friend. I've seen the Brooklyn recipe list before, but a lot of them called for spent grain flower, which just seems like a PITA to make. Do you guys make the flower or follow some other process?
We've made spent grain pizzas and am going to start making dog biscuits for a friend. I've seen the Brooklyn recipe list before, but a lot of them called for spent grain flower, which just seems like a PITA to make. Do you guys make the flower or follow some other process?
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7 steps, and 6 of them are involved with drying the spent grain or storage, which are things that would need to be done whether you're making the flour or not:
Seems easy enough to me?
I dry the spent grains in a 200F oven, turning about once an hour till dry & fluffy. Cool & store in zip lock gallon bags marked for the beer they ere used in. I then use a Mr. Coffee burr grinder on the finest espresso setting to make flour. The burr grinder is about 40 bucks.
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