Time to Get Real About Eating Spent Grain

[MaxStout]

Unless I stop using rice hulls in the mash, cookies are never gonna happen here...

Cheers! ("Priorities" )

Just brewed an oatmeal stout, but 1/2lb rice hulls in the mash. A shame to throw out those spent grains, but I wouldn't want to ingest any of that. I'd feel that stuff scratching its way all through my GI tract.

I'll get my daily requirements of butt-scratchers from granola, thankyouverymuch.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Just brewed an oatmeal stout, but 1/2lb rice hulls in the mash. A shame to throw out those spent grains, but I wouldn't want to ingest any of that. I'd feel that stuff scratching its way all through my GI tract.

I'll get my daily requirements of butt-scratchers from granola, thankyouverymuch.

Good ruffage and good rectal health - priceless!

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

Eating spent grain may sound weird, but believe me, I'm a regular guy.

 

[An Ankoù]

Dig spent grain into a bed of earth or mix with contents of compost heap. It quickly rots down, but if you just chuck it on top, it stinks.
Used to use it in bread until I discovered that crushed caramalt works a million times better.

 

[DuncB]

I found that the rats dive into it if piled up so I dig it into the compost.

However if I Mash hop the grains they won't touch them.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

The spent grain I dump reverts back to Mother Nature quite nicely in a season. It's mixed with grass clippings too. And yes it can really stink if left in a big heap.

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

Wonder if it would draw wild pigs so I could euthanize them and give them proper funeral ceremonies involving a smoker.

 

[An Ankoù]

I found that the rats dive into it if piled up so I dig it into the compost.

However if I Mash hop the grains they won't touch them.

I thought I was the only one left who did mash hopping.

 

[An Ankoù]

Wonder if it would draw wild pigs so I could euthanize them and give them proper funeral ceremonies involving a smoker.

The celebrant would need to be a 20-a-day man?

 

[Snuffy]

https://makebeereasy.com/spent-grain-bread-recipe/

 

[DuncB]

I thought I was the only one left who did mash hopping.

Great for thiols, Michael Tonsmeire does it and so it's good enough for me.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Has there been any studies of what nutrients are left in spent brewers grain?

 

[Miraculix]

I thought I was the only one left who did mash hopping.

Great for thiols, Michael Tonsmeire does it and so it's good enough for me.

Me thinks that it's also a good way to scavenge oxygen in the mash. Some hop compounds are so easily oxidised, they take on the oxygen present during the mash.

I've also read something somewhere about it. I'm doing it for this reason, and it's probably doing something! .... True science has spoken

 

[Saunassa]

I have a big compost pile at back of the yard. I dump it on there and let the deer stir up my pile as the eat from it.

 

[Miraculix]

I have a big compost pile at back of the yard. I dump it on there and let the deer stir up my pile as the eat from it.

Smart

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

I have a big compost pile at back of the yard. I dump it on there and let the deer stir up my pile as the eat from it.

The deer around me must be real picky eaters, they don't touch the grain.

 

[JohnDBrewer]

The deer around me must be real picky eaters, they don't touch the grain.

I'm with you, the deer won't touch the spent grain. I've lived several places in my brewing life, city, country, different states, nada. Deer don't touch it. Now chickens will tear that stuff up.
I spilled a bunch of malt once, swept it up and dumped it over the fence. Now that's crack to deer. I just gave them a little taste and they came back a couple times a day and just lick the ground where I dumped it. This went on for days.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

I'm with you, the deer won't touch the spent grain. I've lived several places in my brewing life, city, country, different states, nada. Deer don't touch it. Now chickens will tear that stuff up.
I spilled a bunch of malt once, swept it up and dumped it over the fence. Now that's crack to deer. I just gave them a little taste and they came back a couple times a day and just lick the ground where I dumped it. This went on for days.

Pigs love it too but they can eat each other.

 

[Hunky]

MMM, waffles with whole wheat flour and some spent grains.. bilberries, real maple syrup, cut up almonds.. a bit of yogurt with the berries..

 

[balrog]

Had a mentor friend who would take one cup of spent grain and run it with water in a blender to really chew up the rough edges and then use it in bread. I thought that was admirable. But I also thought that 1 cup of spent grain was a proverbial drop in the bucket; a push on a shove; a match on a fire; a joker on jack. Anyway. Where I dump it nothing seems interested. Suburban western mass deer disinterested. But if I try to grow sunflowers, well holy jeebus, I gotta fence those in.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Yesterday I noticed the neighbors dog took a fancy to my spent grain pile. He just loved rolling around in it. I hope it was still wet and stinky. A nice surprise for it's owner who let's it run wild but keeps it in their house. Irresponsible dog owners.

 

[Miraculix]

Yesterday I noticed the neighbors dog took a fancy to my spent grain pile. He just loved rolling around in it. I hope it was still wet and stinky. A nice surprise for it's owner who let's it run wild but keeps it in their house. Irresponsible dog owners.

Please don't mash hop then... If he ingests the hops, he can die from it. Poor doggo cannot do anything about stupid owners.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Please don't mash hop then... If he ingests the hops, he can die from it. Poor doggo cannot do anything about stupid owners.

I feel bad for the dog. His owners are stupid. I have spoken to them a couple times but they just don't get it.

 

[MaxStout]

I feel bad for the dog. His owners are stupid. I have spoken to them a couple times but they just don't get it.

Wait til he brings in that sticky stuff and does a big shake.

 

[sbro]

My Pigs love when I brew. They get the spent grain over 2 or 3 days along with their regular feed.

 

[Snuffy]

Had a mentor friend who would take one cup of spent grain and run it with water in a blender to really chew up the rough edges and then use it in bread. I thought that was admirable. But I also thought that 1 cup of spent grain was a proverbial drop in the bucket; a push on a shove; a match on a fire; a joker on jack. Anyway. Where I dump it nothing seems interested. Suburban western mass deer disinterested. But if I try to grow sunflowers, well holy jeebus, I gotta fence those in.

Blue on black, Tears on a river...