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So, I have started to cook with spent grain (well, I just dried the grains, grinded them, and made pancakes) and I am trying to figure the approx. calories per cup. What I have found so far is that one cup of spent grain is 40cals. However, it does not say whether it is wet or dry. Any ideas...

I think he didn't do it right. How much sugar would you add? Any tips?

So, the husband tried to sparge it but probably didn't get the max sugars out of it. It didn't build a nice yeast cake during fermentation. How can he save the beer? Add some DME, boil it (for how long), and then later add to the beer? Other suggestions?? Thanks much.

Thanks again. We probably try that next weekend, maybe 1/2 batch as we are low on bottles... Just got done bottling 10 gal last weekend. Btw, we are almost neighbors. We are in Boise.

Thanks everyone. We appreciate it. Is this for 5gal? Would that be the complete recipe? Would we need to add anything else? What type of beer, if any, would this compare with? Breakfast blend? :tank:

We have been brewing for almost a year now and have been buying "recipes" from the brew place. What that means is that we buy, for example, an IPA recipe which costs about $50. They give us everything we need... LME, grain, hops, yeast, blah blah blah. Now we trying to brew cheaper beers and...