What to do with the trub...

[neumann]

So I've got like like 2 inches of trub (yeast and hops) and I don't know what to do with it. Don't want to run it down the sink. If I pour it in my garden, will it kill what it touches? What do you guys do with all that trub?

 

[ajf]

I pour it into the sink, which feeds the septic tank, which leaches into my front yard, and feeds the lawn, which makes me have to mow much more often than I really need to.

-a.

 

[ArcaneXor]

I dump spent grains and trub in my front yard - the hedge seems to love it and the soil is full of earthworms and other critters chewing through the stuff.

 

[Clayton]

yeah just dump it outside

 

[Nurmey]

Garden for sure. I use it to fertilize my beds all the time.

 

[Wallygator]

Dump it on the hop plants, that way its being reused for future brews.

 

[Krelja]

just if you have a dog keep it somewhere where the pooch can't get it. Hops are supposedly not good for them and I'm not willing to test on my handsome dog

 

[Philsc]

Used hops can kill dogs. I've read at least two posts of brewers who've lost their canine companions after they got at the hops!

Used hops are great for the garden, though.

 

[Hambone]

it's great for the garden, but it also attracks many racoons and other critters to your garden as well. i usually just dump it in the trash and take it outside.

 

[gingerdawg]

I pour it into the sink, which feeds the septic tank, which leaches into my front yard, and feeds the lawn, which makes me have to mow much more often than I really need to.

-a.

Which makes you have a cold one to cool down after mowing the lawn, which makes you have to brew more, which creates more trub, which you pour down the sink............

 

[Rick500]

I dump it, as well as spent grains, in the woods behind my house.

 

[Mantis]

I put it in a blender with some vanilla ice cream. Blend it up real nice and smoothe and then drink 'er down! I call it "The Trake".

Of course if i'm not in the mood for "The Trake", I just dump them in my yard somewhere.

 

[android]

compost it!

 

[JohnnyO]

My wife and I started a composter about a month ago. I basically throw anything nonmeat and nonmanmade in there.

 

[Msbeer]

Mix it with some peanut butter and bake cookies out of it.

 

[Yooper]

I compost all of my spent grains and trub. Well, except for the grains that get made into dog biscuits. If you don't compost, you can use it for your plants outside.

 

[SamFen]

Just restarting this dead thread because I've got a couple inches and I feel sure there must be more to do with trub than just composting it. Anyone ever make bread out of it, maybe? Or put it in the fridge and save it as yeast food for the next beer? Feel sure all that stuff must be good for something...

 

[Pick]

I make Trub Soup with mine. Not very tasty, but if you add enough hot sauce, it goes down pretty good.

 

[GRHunter]

The toilet works for me.

 

[Baldy_Beer_Brewery]

I just wash mine to reclaim the yeast and then the leftover trub goes down the sink.

 

[DmentD]

+1 for composting it. Like Yooper, I keep the grains for dog biscuits too... or if I have too much spent grain in the freezer, I chuck them in the compost as well.

The trub does, however, make the compost heap smell like the inside of the Harlem Globetrotters laundry hamper. I'm just sayin'.

 

[abbot555]

I compost all of my spent grains and trub. Well, except for the grains that get made into dog biscuits. If you don't compost, you can use it for your plants outside.

+1 for composting it. Like Yooper, I keep the grains for dog biscuits too... or if I have too much spent grain in the freezer, I chuck them in the compost as well.

The trub does, however, make the compost heap smell like the inside of the Harlem Globetrotters laundry hamper. I'm just sayin'.

How do you make dog biscuits? Recipie?

 

[DmentD]

How do you make dog biscuits? Recipie?

The ones I make are found in this thread:

Spent Grain? Make Your Best Friend Cookies!

Read it through, as there are some useful tips as the thread goes on.

The spent grain will start to go off after a few days in the fridge, so if you don't use it right away, you can freeze it for long term storage (and dogs don't care about a little freezer burn *grins*). I pack 4 cups of grain into a quart ziploc bag as that's what I use in a recipe.

 

[Rick500]

My dog seems to prefer Maris Otter.

 

[bovineblitz]

I live in a small apartment, I dump the trub down the toilet.

 

[devilishprune]

+1 for dumping it in the toilet.

I clogged up my bathtub by pouring all the trub from my last brew down the drain.

 

[ancientbrewer]

I always have a little trub in my bottling bucket and just racked it into a one gallon jug (about 1.5 qts) and was thinking of filling it up with honey and some fruit and let it go. The triple was 11.8%. What do you think

 

[seatazzz]

I scoop what's left in the fermenter into mason jars and refrigerate it. Usually get about 3 jars from a batch. Then I use it for yeast the next time I brew something close to whatever beer it was. 2 jars usually does the trick. Spent grain either goes in the yard for the squirrels to entertain the dogs, or in the garbage.