What to do with leftover grist

[GeordieBrewer]

Is there anything which can be done with grist after mashing and sparging? Of course, it's had 90& of the sugar washed out of it, but can it be used for anything other than feeding that bin? Does it make good bird food? Is it good for the garden? can it go into compost?

Brewing seems to he pretty environmentally friendly, shame to chuck it away!

[vacant]

mine gets eaten by cows & chickens

[cooldad]

give mine away to a guy who keeps chickens. apparently they go mad for it.

[adm]

It makes excellent dog biscuits!

If you mix some of it with an egg or two, plus a bit of mollasses, peanut butter or whatever, then spread it out on a baking sheet and bake at a low temp for a couple of hours, you'll end up with a tray of superb dog treats.

(Top Tip: Make sure to use a knife before baking to mark out the portion shapes as it's a bugger to break up afterwards if you haven't!)

[Bryggmester]

It is also very good for the compost heap, but a word of warning. Either mix it in well with lots of other material or use a closed bin 'cos it doesn't half pong after a few days

[nobby]

Give mine to mates shire horse and I get the horse muck back for the allotment

[lancsSteve]

Not tried this yet as never have any bread yeast around but there's a tradition of making bread with spent grain

From: http://g_a_b_s.tripod.com/gabscookbook.html

Steve Morrisey’s Spent Grain Bread



When you make all grain beer save the grain. Use sandwich size zip lock bags.

Fill up 3 or 4 bags. Then freeze them until you bake bread.



2 cups Spent Grain (put the grain in a coffee grinder or food processor and grind them up)

4 cups Bread Flour

1 cup Wheat Flour

1 1/2 tsp. Salt

1/4 cup of Sugar

1/2 Stick of Butter

1 Egg (Beaten)

2 cup of Warm Water

1 TBS. of Olive Oil

1/2 cup of warm water & 2 1/4 tsp. Bread yeast

Mix together and knead with 1 more cup of flour.

Let rise and flatten down divide into 2 or 4 pc. Depends on how big you want your bread loafs or roll little balls to make rolls. Freeze the rest and take out when you want more bread.

Let it rise again and bake.

Bake at 350F for 35 min. for loafs or 10-12 min. for rolls.

Use corn meal on cookie sheet so loaf does not stick to pan.

1 tsp. Olive Oil to brush the top of the bread when it comes out of the oven.

If you offer it up via freegle or similar a lot of farmers LOVE this for pig/chicken feed.

Mine currently goes on the compost heap...

Steve

[WishboneBrewery]

Its making my Wheely bin smell really awfull at present, I'll be glad when we move and I can compost, but the closed bin thing is a good tip

[Mitchamitri]

am m oving house soon hopefully and the garden is HUGE so I will probably just dig it in to the soil over winter - cant do any harm.

[GeordieBrewer]

Good to know there's so many uses!
A colleague at work keeps chickens, so I think they'll get the benefit!

[Invalid Stout]

If you can't feed it to chickens or other beasts or compost it, get it out of the house as quickly as possible. After a few days it'll stink if you're lucky; if you're unlucky it'll stink AND you'll have fruit flies everywhere.

[farmhousekeg]

Our little minature Shetland pony loves it but I only give him a handful for fear that he'll get belly ache! The rest goes on the compost heap.