ginuwineus
Active Member
I would like to use the chocolate grains I steeped in my Brown Ale for something else. I've heard that I can use them to make bread. Is this true? Any other suggestions???
I put mine into the food processor wet. It's enough to break up the husks while leaving some nice larger pieces that give the bread a nice visual, and a bit of texture. It's a little messy, but not too bad at all.The best way to do this IMO is to 1st dry the grains. A dehydrator or your oven set on the lowest setting will work as long as the grains are spread out on a cookie sheet.
Once they are dry you can easily grind them into a flour like consistancy with a cheap or old blender. NOTE: Wet grains in a blender = mess. Then once you have the flour you can sub out some flour for your spent grain stuff. For bread I useally do a 1 cup substitution per loaf.
There are a few recipes here on HBT. Just search for the item with "spent grain" in front of it like : Spent grain pizza dough, pretzels, real bread, dog treats, ect.
I tried mixing my spent grains into my garden but all I did was attract ants.
Let's say I have 17lbs of spent grains that have been sitting in my (sealed) mash tun since last week... obviously I'm not making anything edible with them now, but would they still be good for composting or something like that?
Hypothetically speaking of course...
big difference between composting and throwing them in the garden.
As does mine, but schnauzers will eat anything.My schnauzer loves them!
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