After the brew...

I store in a compost bin that eventually I hope to incorporate into soil for raised bed garden, maybe including hops. Alas, I never seem to be on the ball to complete this project and each year rolls by and my garden remains sort of pathetic.

 

All of it goes in the drain/trash/ground.

I'm usually in a hurry when I brew/rack/etc, so saving stuff around for someone else hoping they use it is low on my list.

Spent grain in a trashcan smells awful in the summer time, so I tend to try and dump it out in the wild/bush areas of my backyard.

 

my grains go to a friends chicken coop. in 5 gallon buckets that seem to never return... not ever.

yeast and trub will sometimes go down the drain in the tub because I wash out equipment in the shower.
most yeast except US-05 is re-used at least once.

 

Grain: Compost, Bread and Pizza dough at my house. Yeast is kept in pint size mason jars in the fridge

 

What are you doing to make the pizza dough, if you don't mind me asking?

 

Ingredients:

.75 cup warm water
1 cup Bread Flour
1.25 cups All Purpose Flour
1 cup of Spent Grain
2 tsp Kosher Salt
1 tsp Honey/LME/Sugar/etc.
1 package dry yeast

Add the 1/2 cup of warm (100-110 degrees) water, sugar of choice to the dry yeast and let it sit for 5-10 min
Combine the other ingredients in the bowl until mixed hand knead on a floured surface. Clean your bowl out coat with olive oil add dough and cover with a clean dry cloth for 18-24 hours in the fridge. Dough makes enough for a sheet pan worth of pizza once you're ready to bake spread it out on a decently oiled baking sheet and let it rise for 30-45 minutes then cook at 475 for 15-18 minutes.

 

I have a dog so my spent grains get turned into dog treats. He loves them

 

I'm saving this!

 

I spread them out under our bird feeders. The doves love 'em!

 

Compost the grains, although I have used them to bake awesome spent grain choc chip cookies, made soaps with them, made dog treats, dried them/ground them/used them as a flour, etc.

 

I usually just dump hops and grains into the garden for compost.

 

Dog treat:
4 cups grain
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups flour
2 eggs

Mix, cook at 350F for 30ish minutes. Check every 10 min. Best when almost dried. They are the only treats my dogs will value enough to listen outdoor...

The rest goes for the deer in the backyard.

Cheers!

 

@Maich & @VincentGR, for the Pizza dough and the Dog treats, do you dry the grains out?

 

I dont dry the grains for the dog treat. (It would be to dry to work with).

PS: Avoid giving grains mixed with hop to your dog. Hops kill dogs....very poisonous!!!

 

@donspublic nope if you do you would def need to add more water to the recipe