into the woods. I voted compost.
Cant answer your question, but I used to compost my spent grain and it gives a pungent feedlot like aroma to the pile you could smell from 30ft away.
We do a pretty good job of getting the carbs out of the grain, but we leave most of the germ, which is solid protein. Dehydrated spent grain is about 20% protein and 70% fiber.I give some to my chickens but not loads as I presume the nutritional value is very low. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Currently throwing it out, but have been researching bread recipes so I can start adding more buttery carbs to my diet.
Recently I started a hot pepper garden so maybe I'll start a small compost bin and keep a bit more.
Would this make good compost for peppers? I'm as green as grass growing them.
I toss it in the garden, great for my hops and tomato plants. If I "spill" some on the grass one can see the spots where I spilled it, the grass is way greener and taller.
Some years ago I blended it in with the dirt in the patch which would be growing my future hops, When I dug up the patch again maybe next spring or something it straight up smelled like human feces. It was ridiculous, it smelled like if ten people with very bad eating habits went together to create the biggest turd in the world.
If you want to use all your spent grain..... You are going to be eating an awful lot of bread!!!! You would use less than one pound in a loaf....
I brew only extract recipes so the amount of spent grains are not too much trouble to deal with. I dry these in the oven and then turn into spent grain flour using a coffee grinder. This makes a nice substitute for regular flour (usually a tablespoon or so for a loaf of bread or most of my recipes). It gives a nice added flavor and color without being overly dense and heavy if excessive spent grain flour were to be used. I add to breakfast smoothies, pizza dough, honemade granola bars and granola cereal, pancakes, chocolate chip oatmeal raisin cookies, and chocolate cake to name several good uses. A great way to recycle instead of tossing it in the dumpster and letting it go to waste.
Right. But that doesn't use up much of the spent grain when your dry weight grains total 10 - 20 pounds. I still have some dried spent grain that I saved about a year ago. So for me it is compost. I have also spread it on the lawn and raked it down into the grass.
I sometimes cast my spent grain over the lawn too. It can quickly overwhelm my compost because it takes a LOT of browns to balance it out. I usually just leave it where it falls and it seems to work it's way down to the roots on it's own.
Same here!A small portion of mine go to the chickens, the rest goes to the deer.