stephelton
Well-Known Member
I brewed up a 10 gallon batch of AG on Sunday. I intended to make dog biscuits out of the spent grains, and so I put the entire mash tun in my kegorator to help preserve it. I began an attempt to dry the grain.
I put my oven on its lowest setting (170 degrees F) and spread some of the grains out on a couple cookie sheets and set them in the oven, stirring the grains periodically. This took about a full day to really dry.
By the time I got around to putting the second batch in to dry, the grains in the mash tun are already going bad, so I had to toss them.
So I have some questions:
1) Is there a better way to dry the grains? Do I even need to dry them if I'm making the biscuits? How might this alter my recipe? What about grinding the grains?
2) Any suggestions on preserving the grain long enough to use it all? 10 gallons yields quite a bit of grain. I have lots of friends and family that have dogs, so I'm confident that I could use all the biscuits made from that much grain.
Thanks
I put my oven on its lowest setting (170 degrees F) and spread some of the grains out on a couple cookie sheets and set them in the oven, stirring the grains periodically. This took about a full day to really dry.
By the time I got around to putting the second batch in to dry, the grains in the mash tun are already going bad, so I had to toss them.
So I have some questions:
1) Is there a better way to dry the grains? Do I even need to dry them if I'm making the biscuits? How might this alter my recipe? What about grinding the grains?
2) Any suggestions on preserving the grain long enough to use it all? 10 gallons yields quite a bit of grain. I have lots of friends and family that have dogs, so I'm confident that I could use all the biscuits made from that much grain.
Thanks