Was about to make some more home made spent grain granola when I thought I would ask the community what they do with their spent grain and hops?
I make doggie treats if I'm bothered and I freeze take away cartons of it and give them to the parents for their hens too.
The rest goes in the bin.
This might give you some ideas ;)
http://brooklynbrewshop.com/themash/category/spentgrainchef/
Quote from: Tube's Beer Kit on February 11, 2014, 01:28:13 PM
Flush it down the toilet as it doesn't compost well.
Might look at drying it and burning it which is what at least one brewery does.
burning it? is my beer spawned from a witch? >:D
Quote from: irish_goat on February 11, 2014, 01:32:13 PM
I make doggie treats if I'm bothered and I freeze take away cartons of it and give them to the parents for their hens too.
The rest goes in the bin.
Yeah done the doggy treat thing for friends but have none myself. Uses lots of grain.
also saw this one http://draftmag.com/features/don%E2%80%99t-ditch-that-grain/ and my granola from http://www.breworganic.com/recipes/Cooking-Recipes.html
Albran for dogs, I've done that for my 2 but it makes them fart like hell and you want to see them strain, much better than any Oxi ;)
After the dogs eat them biscuits the birds will depoop your garden...another benefit of being a homebrewer 8)
Quote from: Tube's Beer Kit on February 11, 2014, 01:28:13 PM
Flush it down the toilet as it doesn't compost well.
Might look at drying it and burning it which is what at least one brewery does.
Are you meaning the hops? Because the grain works really well in the compost. You need to lay down layers of paper to get a good composter working well, shred the paper and layer it in between, it stops the compost heap from compacting too much. I also throw my trub on top, that does a great job on the dalek. Hops on the other hand won't compost well as they are too good at stopping moulds etc.
Quote from: Tube's Beer Kit on February 11, 2014, 01:28:13 PM
Flush it down the toilet as it doesn't compost well.
Might look at drying it and burning it which is what at least one brewery does.
Tube I am sure this suggestion is just you taking the piss? Why any one would want to feed sewer rats in this fashion not to mention run the risk of backing up the sewer is beyond me.
Shanna
Quote from: imark on February 11, 2014, 03:03:44 PM
After the dogs eat them biscuits the birds will depoop your garden...another benefit of being a homebrewer 8)
Wheres the LOL button ....
If your really doing this I suspect your going to have drain problems at some point in the future. I understand the concern about rats in a composter but I think the toilet route is likely to cause you blockages that will be hard to shift. I would not be concerned about the local treatment plant but the bends/pipes from your house to the street.
Shanna
Stuff is like concrete so I would be careful about blocking the drains.
All it needs is your spent grain meeting up with the next door neighbours chip pan oil in a 4" soil pipe and boy will you have a problem.
Do you not have a "brown bin" down there?
Put it in a bag and then in a bin
I live by a decorative canal, and I like the idea of feeding the local waterfowl with it.
They seem keen on pale malt but not so keen on roasted ones.
But its still technically dumping, so it mostly goes into the apartment skip (or the canal itself if its dark - feeds the fishies, and I like cranes & herons)
I have this mental image of you in the middle of the night dropping grain along the canal bank out the bottom of your trousers like the great escape ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Tube's Beer Kit on February 12, 2014, 08:47:04 PM
Anyone else notice the sparge arms in the tanks! O0
Declan, it gets disposed of in a continuous way. Not lumps at a time.
Have had the unfortunate task of having to unblock backed up drains with sewer rods in the past & I can't think of a more disgusting experience ;-(
Shanna
I have 40 meter line that drives a spray head from a Karcher, learnt the hard way to turn it off before dragging it out of the manhole! ::)
I found it way too stinky to put in our normal bin, we have no brown, or space for compost. Last brew I did I brought it to the phoenix park and fed the deer. Woman from N 17 stand at altech said you should only give them small amounts... One lad started aggressively chasing us so we had to just ditch the whole bag in a pile and back off! Some of them had a few mouthfuls.. must be better than the slices of white slice pan other people were flinging at them like frisbees.
I plan on getting chickens in the next few weeks and I assumed I'd be able to feed some of it to them. Does anyone else do this? if so how much can they eat without exploding??
Quote from: Fal on February 14, 2014, 10:04:40 AM
I plan on getting chickens in the next few weeks and I assumed I'd be able to feed some of it to them. Does anyone else do this? if so how much can they eat without exploding??
Apparently chickens can go through a load of it. You may still want to dry it out and store it, or even freeze it.
Pigs on the other hand will clean you out of it.
Not too much for chickens it thins the eggs apparently, and should form part of a balanced nutritional calorie controlled diet, now where have I heard that before.