How many pounds of spent grain do you produce every year? How do you dispose of it?

[Pyg]

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Spent grain dog biscuits, only 4 ingredients.
Keeps me from having to buy them at the store!
What I don't use I compost.
I would be lucky to generate 30# a year

 

[jcav]

I give the grains to my chickens. It's funny they know now what's in the bucket. When they see me coming with it through the screen door in the barn, they pace back and forth until I open the door. They usually get several 5 gallons buckets full per batch, depending on the recipe (I make 11 gallon batches). Yesterday they got 3 buckets and they went crazy!

John

 

[fun4stuff]

Makes excellent compost.

 

[IslandLizard]

I generate about 150-200# a year. When we have time, we take it to a small local farm the next day, feeding it to the goats and a pot belly pig. If it's over 2 days old and gets smelly it goes into compost pile. But it creates a swarm of hundreds of little flying insects, I hate that. You can also smell it for a few days.

I save some in the fridge for bread, and use about 65-75% of spent grains in it. Pretty good and yummy!

Now when there are rice hulls mixed in I would not deem it consumable for anyone, not even the animals, so it gets composted. Those hulls are like little razor blades.

 

[TurnipGreen]

me too. my grill ashes go in the holes too. dog is kicking my ass.

Ha!!! I like to drop a fresh dog turd I the bottom of holes our lab digs. That way if he tried to dig there again he gets a snout full of poo. I don't know if that just makes him dig elsewhere or what. But I like messing with them.

Both our dogs are good boys. Me and my kids will be making them bannana-peanut butter dog treats out of spend grains this morning.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

How much? IDK. I bake spent grain bread and give the rest to family for their chickens and they sometimes make dog treats (no hops of course)!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Across the street from my house is the back of a very large cemetery. I dump it right over the fence.

Seriously? No wonder your borough is plagued with wild turkeys there!

 

[GABrewer1426]

How do you cool the grains?
I have access to a couple cows in my vicinity. And would love to dump the spent grains over the fence, but as it's 160F+/- isn't that harmful? Shouldn't I wait for them to cool down?
The cow caretaker has been hesitant on receiving the grain, so I want to do everything possible to mitigate any possible concerns.

Otherwise it gets dumped in a ditch on the property.
I do have a neighbor with chickens, so I would be happy to give/trade away.

 

[NatureOfTheYeast]

225.77 lbs so far this year, all scattered into the front yard.

Not sure if it's due to the grains, but I haven't had to apply fertilizer at all this year. The yard greened up early while everyone's was still yellow and is thicker and fuller than my immediate neighbors.

It's a little bit ghetto, but it works for me. Leads to some funny questions and conversations on brew day, and dogs/cats like to eat the grains that overshoot the lawn and hit the driveway or sidewalk.

 

[muels]

I dump them on our food plot for the deer. The deer love it, but in the end I get the best part of that deal.