Yellowirenut
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Feed them to the chickens of course..
Copper Ale, Kit by Midwest
OG - 1.058
Copper Ale, Kit by Midwest
OG - 1.058
Sorry to resurrect an old thread...
I did my second all-grain this past weekend, and hated the idea of tossing the 13-plus pounds of spent grain. I posted an ad in the "Free" section of Craigslist, stating that it's just grain and some water.
Almost immediately, I get an email from some guy, exclaiming--in all caps--to never used spent grain as feed, because "the alcohol is toxic to chickens." I replied, informing him that there is no alcohol in it, that alcohol is produced later in the process by fermentation, etc., etc. He wrote back, this time with some lame, strawman argument about the possibility of aflatoxins in the grain, and that he would "never give something like that to his chickens..."
There's just way to reason with some people.
I did find a taker, who picked up the grains. But maybe next time I'll just give them to the neighbors who compost.
I started sprinkling them in a thin layer in the garden. The plants seem to love it. I was surprised at how fast they degraded and mixed into the soil, all I see from the last sprinkling a month ago is a few husk pieces.
Does it still stink that way? The last batch got dumped in the yard debris bin (I had nowhere else to stick them) and I regret that move. The bin stinks like crazy right now.
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