What do you do with your spent grains?

[a6ladd]

Ive been brewing AG for several months now and have been mostly composting my spent grain. I have started to bake with it in bread and cookies. Is there anyone else out there that uses the spent grain for anything else? Cheers!

Andrew

[skibikejunkie]

My wife turns a small percentage of it into spent-grain bread then we compost the rest.

I have a friend that eats it for breakfast as cereal. YMMV.

[Bokonon]

I've traded grain to friends with chickens in exchange for eggs. Compost if I can't do that.

[NHBrewer]

Pretty much got a dozen chickens for this exact reason. Brewing 10 gallons a week was building a huge grain pile that was not wanting to compost. Now I dump it on top the morning after brewing, the chicks are in the coop by the time I am done and home with the grain, and it is a fierce attack on that grain when they see me dump it. My daughter does love watching the chicks grow so that is another benefit and once I start getting eggs, they are still pullets, I will have at least some nutrition from the spent grain. If you live in a rural area there is almost positively someone raising fowl that would love your "waste".

NHB

[Adam]

Feed my pigs with spent grain, among other things.

[Flight Risk]

my wife mixes the spent grains with some stuff and makes dog treats....
the dog loves them.

[TheKitsapKid]

One of my friends made crackers with his. Even put a little shredded cheese on there before baking it.

[NHbeerscene]

+1 NH Brewer

We have 13 chickens that we give our grains to. It takes about and hour for the girls to destroy 12 - 15 pounds of grain. When we start using our meat bird coop, the grains will go to those birds while they grow.