Spent grains pile stolen?

This is just weird and confusing. My compost heap is mostly spent grains. I went to dump out some weeds and branches.... There are tire tracks up to the pile, the pile is gone! Can anybody tell me what is so important about a compost heap and spent grains???? My yard machines are left unlocked and untouched. But my compost heap was stolen! WTF??? What is so valuable about two-row compost? Are people that petty?

Lol I have not a clue but if you find that guy tell him he can have mine too if he cleans out my tun while he's at it.

Maybe a guy who wants to use it for feed?

Was a chicken or pig driving the truck?

some poeple are nuts plain and simple

tonyolympia said:

Was a chicken or pig driving the truck?

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LOL is an understatement!!!

Dude...if you do have farmers in your area, you should put a criagslist post up and offer your spent grains for free to them, unless of course you use them for your garden...then do what you wish.

Forget the chicken and pig. The Deer usually eat mine. Maybe they are driving now!

This sounds like a turd burglar in training...

brandonhagen1 said:

some poeple are nuts plain and simple

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I think this may be the only reasonable explanation

How close is/was the pile to your down wind neighbors? Maybe they thought they were doing you a favor by removing what they percieved as a giant putrid mound of vomit.

Maybe the guy had a lot of dogs and wanted to make 1,000,000 dog biscuits?

My pile of spent grains has been taken over by some sort of maggots.. Literally millions of them, the whole damn pile is moving. I did what any logical person would do and plopped the chickens on it.. looks like I won't need to buy feed for a couple of weeks

joeybeer said:

My pile of spent grains has been taken over by some sort of maggots.. Literally millions of them, the whole damn pile is moving. I did what any logical person would do and plopped the chickens on it.. looks like I won't need to buy feed for a couple of weeks

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I had the same thing happen. I figured I had some sugar that wasn't rinsed out during the sparge. I don't know..

Ziggybrew said:

This is just weird and confusing. My compost heap is mostly spent grains. I went to dump out some weeds and branches.... There are tire tracks up to the pile, the pile is gone! Can anybody tell me what is so important about a compost heap and spent grains???? My yard machines are left unlocked and untouched. But my compost heap was stolen! WTF??? What is so valuable about two-row compost? Are people that petty?

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Oh, I've heard about this!! My grandad used to tell me when I was a kid about the beer fairy. You should expect a couple cases of exquisite, tasty homebrew in 6-8 weeks.

Every time I dump my spent grains in the field across the road, those $#*##$* felonious deer steal it!

HItransplant said:

I think this may be the only reasonable explanation

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.....always a great working hypothesis!

I'd also think some hungry deer or other animal ate it...

biochemedic said:

I'd also think some hungry deer or other animal ate it...

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I guess those tricksy animals are hotwiring cars to get their food now.

tonyolympia said:

was a chicken or pig driving the truck?

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lmao!!!1

it was the ATF, they were going through your spent grains to analyze whether or not you've hit your 200 gallons for the year.

Passerby: "Hey, I could BREW with that!"

I'll bet those tracks lead to Straub Brewery.

In a weird turn of events, a toll booth camera captured the offender racing away from the scene of the crime in an old pickup...

rico567 said:

Every time I dump my spent grains in the field across the road, those $#*##$* felonious deer steal it!

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Ummm... grain fed vension.

I dump mine in a cemetery. I figure the ghosts might want to make some undead beer with some dead grains

Maybe the deer got tired of coming to your land and decided to take it all in one shot?

Sometimes its best to let people do what they do. I would think they stole your compost for better reasons then they thought yours were. I don't have stealers here but I live too far from criminals. I did have a kid that rode my bike and locked up the engine though. They did bring it back for me to fix as well. Nice fellas. I am sure its one of my kids or their friends. My kids bring out the worst in me sometimes.