Spent hops and Spent Grain

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

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)

[Ciderhead]

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

[Shanna]

Anyone else notice the sparge arms in the tanks! 

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

[Ciderhead]

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! :

[ferg]

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.

[Fal]

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??

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

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.

[Ciderhead]

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.