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food-bev Spent Grains

Voodoo 6

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Every morning when I pass the brewery, I see this guy pulling a horse trailer behind an old truck loading up 55 gallon food barrels from the brewery. I am assuming these are the spend grains.
 
Does anyone know what uses spent grain has? Do they use it as feed? I am hoping not because there is probably zero nutritional value left after extracting the sugars. Any thoughts?
 
I threw my spent grains in the garden this year. No idea if the the plants benefited from this but it didn't seem to do any harm. Appears to break down quickly...
 
wonder if there is any nutritional value to spent grains, have to look into that. if there is no value to it wouldn't it be like eating saw dust?
 
It doesn´t surprise me that there´s still a decent amount of nutriment left in spent grains; mashing and lautering are intended to extract converted starch as well as some flavor, aroma and color, but they aren´t intended to get every bit of nutritional value out of the mash...
 
I used to homebrew a lot. I just wasted my spent grains.  Now that i keep some wormbins, i´m kinda curious how it would do as worm food.... 
 
All the meats here sold in the supermarkets are really fatty. I remember meat back in the day being much leaner. So I was wondering.
 
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