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So I took a reading with about 5 min left in the boil with my refractometer, OG was around 1045 (which was the target). Once I transferred the wort into my carboy and aerated, my OG reading was down to 1040. I did a full boil, started with roughly 6.5 gallons and ended up with about 5.25...

Good stuff. Yeah the wet grain almost has to be dried unless it is used immediately for feed. Probably a reason nobody has been successful collecting the stuff for local breweries and reselling it as a business.

THis makes me think there is a market, especially if disposal can be provided more efficiently than companies like WM. Solving the shipping costs sounds like it's the key here.

Anybody with connections to small, medium, large breweries? What do breweries generally do with their spent grain? I've read that many sell/give to local farmers for feed. Larger operations (BMC) have large scale programs, even ethanol production at the Coors brewery in Golden, CO. Seems...

Thanks for the replies. Took the reading with a hydrometer, so it should be pretty close. Should end up being OK, fermenting like crazy right now at a nice temp controlled 66 degrees!

I brewed a Midwest Ferocious (Furious IPA clone) kit on Saturday, and long story short I missed my OG by 12 points (1056 instead of 1068). I did a full boil and had a problem with the boil-off rate... Anyway, what are the potential effects on the beer going to be? The abv should be lower than...

I've got a bender PM 5 gallon kit from NB just waiting to be brewed. I just recently tasted a great vanilla stout, which gave me this idea... Split the bender into two carboys. One being the standard bender, and one adding some vanilla bean or vanilla extract to create a vanilla bender...