Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Wondering if anyone has any creative ideas of how to get rid of spent grain beds. I have been dumping them on the compost but it tends to stink and I don't want to annoy the neighbours. Living in town no pets to feed it to. I have been watering the heap which keeps smell to a min but looking for something better..dunder backset is easy and tends not to stink and can just go down the drain..

I've been donating it as chook and pig tucker or just sprinkling it over my garden bed. Apparently it makes good bread, haven't tried it personally.

Toilet?

Funny you mention that. When I was in Tassie and talking to Belgrove Distillery he fed it all to his sheep. Then he collected some shit back up and added it to his peat when he dried the next batch. Lol.. creative huh? Start eating it mate ... :laughing-rolling:

Dyno wrote:Funny you mention that. When I was in Tassie and talking to Belgrove Distillery he fed it all to his sheep. Then he collected some shit back up and added it to his peat when he dried the next batch. Lol.. creative huh? Start eating it mate ... :laughing-rolling:

Belgrove distillery also uses a plastic tub as a collection vessel off the still!

maybe I should get a pet sheep :think: :laughing-rolling:

Sparrow wrote:I've been donating it as chook and pig tucker or just sprinkling it over my garden bed. Apparently it makes good bread, haven't tried it personally.

Wouldn't you use it more for bread if you ferment off the grain. Grain bread made from grain that had been sitting in a ferment for weeks may be a bit funky..I don't think spent grain as such from off the grain all grain mash would smell as funky as the trub/yeast/grain bed from a uj style whiskey.. :-B

Get a cheap 100 liter container with a lid. Cut the bottom off and bury as much as you can in a quiet corner of the garden leaving the lid exposed. Backfill and just pour your spent grain in there when ever you have it. It'll smell when the lids off but it'll be fine any other time. Should rot away nicely too.
Used to do it for dog crap.

Add some sugar and ferment again... never tried it :o

bluc wrote:maybe I should get a pet sheep :think: :laughing-rolling:

:handgestures-thumbupleft: :laughing-rolling:

Google: homebrew spent grains pet treats

Now you have a reason to get a dog!

Borneogoat wrote:Google: homebrew spent grains pet treats

Now you have a reason to get a dog!

I should add, my dog will eat them straight out if the bucket. Have to keep telling the bitch to get away from em!

we compost a lot of the grain...you have to often add a bit of lime to keep P.H. in line....used gin botanicals get used to make soaps (they add smell and texture)...stuff chickens for the restaurant... can be ground and added to sausages...make a great base for bitters... they have so many uses.
Doc

Never seen a sheep eat wet grain, it would have to be mixed with dry feed :-B

warramungas wrote:Get a cheap 100 liter container with a lid. Cut the bottom off and bury as much as you can in a quiet corner of the garden leaving the lid exposed. Backfill and just pour your spent grain in there when ever you have it. It'll smell when the lids off but it'll be fine any other time. Should rot away nicely too.
Used to do it for dog crap.

Like the sound of this and about the most viable for me will have a look. Funny you should mention the dog poo because I was at bunnings today and they have a vessel spefically for this.. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Sam. wrote:Never seen a sheep eat wet grain, it would have to be mixed with dry feed :-B

lol I get a lot of galahs and cockatoos at my place they seem to like it but they just don't eat it quick enough.

Hey doc good tip on ph I might start neutralising everything before I dump it..

I just throw it on the garden and the birds have a feast with it. But then I don't do a lot of all grain washes.

I just keep throwing it on the garden and telling the wife "it’s the same lot I threw there 2 years ago, I don't throw it there anymore, it just takes a long time to break down" :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: she rolls her eyes quite alot but hey if she can't catch me doing it :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Sam. wrote:Never seen a sheep eat wet grain, it would have to be mixed with dry feed :-B

Have seen on television wet grain taken out of mash tun and put in open IBC and feed to sheep but you may be right it could have been mixed with grain or molasses.

wynnum1 wrote:

Sam. wrote:Never seen a sheep eat wet grain, it would have to be mixed with dry feed :-B

Have seen on television wet grain taken out of mash tun and put in open IBC and feed to sheep but you may be right it could have been mixed with grain or molasses.

I would imagine it's just spread around his sheep paddocks. He has this whole" take it from the farm, return it to the farm" philosophy.