What to do with used malt?

[Zitooo]

I've put my first batches in the garden compost but realized there's a risk that the wild boars in the forest will come to eat them. What do you usually do with your used malt?
Is it good food for birds?

 

[Bigbre04]

We take ours to the city dump where they mix it into compost. I have had farmers take it to feed cattle. Pigs will also eat it. I assume chickens will as well.

If you use it for compost, you need to treat it like a brown. You could build a compost turner and never need to buy compost again!

as long as you spread it out and let it dry in the sun it wont stink. if you pile it up it will start to stink and probably bring in your piggy friends.

Also that is a very unique problem lol.

 

[Dave Y]

It's pretty good deer repellent ;-) been a couple years since I had the last hog invasion so I can't comment on those turkeys. Right now I dump mine into a ravine on the property.

You can dry and crush some to make depleted beer grain pretzels, there's a recipe online for it. They're not bad.

 

[J A]

I assume chickens will as well.

Chickens don't have much use for it but if you pile it up with a handful of dried meal worms, there'll be a ba-jillion live soldier-fly larvae working in there within a week or two. The chickens will go insane with it then. As for the spent grain, there's not much in it that they can use.

there's a risk that the wild boars in the forest will come to eat them.

It may bring feral hogs in but no more than your normal compost, most likely. The stuff does stink to high heaven for a day or two if it's left closed up. If it's out in the open, it deteriorates pretty quickly and it's quite good for loosening up heavy garden soil.

 

[HighVoltageMan!]

I dump mine in the woods on my property. Wildlife basically won't touch it and it just decomposes over time (it smells pretty bad after a while). Chickens are excited to see it until they figure out what it is and then ignore it. There is not much in there for anything to eat.

I once dump a batch that I mashed but didn't lauter or sparge, so it had a lot of sugar in it (I mistakenly thought it hadn't converted). The next day a bunch of rooster pheasants were devouring it. That's the only time I attracted wildlife.

 

[J A]

I dump mine in the woods on my property. Wildlife basically won't touch it and it just decomposes over time (it smells pretty bad after a while). Chickens are excited to see it until they figure out what it is and then ignore it. There is not much in there for anything to eat.

I once dump a batch that I mashed but didn't lauter or sparge, so it had a lot of sugar in it (I mistakenly thought it hadn't converted). The next day a bunch of rooster pheasants were devouring it. That's the only time I attracted wildlife.

The whole point of mashing is to extract the food value from the grain. If we get up to 90% conversion and do a decent sparge we've taken virtually all the nutritional value from it. If you dumped it before the sugars were extracted, I can imagine it attracted plenty of attention.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

if dried animals love it, as stated it will spoil fast

 

[Craigerrr]

We have a green bin program here for organic waste, I put it in there.
The Region composts it, which gets put out to be taken for free in the spring.
I have taken my share of compost in the spring.

 

[Minbari]

I make super crunchy malt o meal!

 

[Hawkbox]

Yeah I dump it in the organics bin here.

 

[Zitooo]

Thanks for the ideas, i think i put it in my bin for organic waste to

 

[Zambi]

I just throw it somewhere in the garden.
It will compost eventually.
I'm counting on my Jack Russell's to keep critters away

You could use some for baking bread.
@Herm brews is a master at that

 

[Sandy Feet]

I haven't seen Herm in awhile. I hope all is good. I have a spot in the backyard where it gets dumped. Nothing really touches it.

 

[Zambi]

I haven't seen Herm in awhile. I hope all is good. I have a spot in the backyard where it gets dumped. Nothing really touches it.

If I remember correct, Herm caught the fly fishing & skiing bug (though I don't think he manages to do both at the same time)

 

[Bigbre04]

If I remember correct, Herm caught the fly fishing & skiing bug (though I don't think he manages to do both at the same time)

would be very impressive if he did!

also jack russels can be more terrifying then ridgebacks!

 

[Ward Chillington]

I do everything from making bread to waffles, dog biscuits to trading it out for a couple dozen eggs with my neighbors with chickens.....and compost. The guys at the local brewery give it to the local farmers for livestock feed.

If you're really interested, there's a post on here and a ton of neck deep research papers out on the net for using spent brewing grains to add nutritional value to food products. Just put "spent brewers grain" into your browser and hop on down the bunny trail!

 

[west1m]

Budweiser etc must do something with those quantities!

 

[Craigerrr]

Budweiser etc must do something with those quantities!

They probably sell it to Purina

 

[Josh Hughes]

Anymore I throw it in the woods by my house. In the past I gave dried and ground to flour for bread. The only exception if if I’m brewing early in the day and Kim wants a scoop or two for her oatmeal.

 

[Spittybug]

My wife makes dog biscuits every now and then (ALL dogs love them), but otherwise the herd of deer and the 8 turkeys devour it in mere hours.