Spent Mash Grain

[Fieldmouse]

Greetings brothers,

at the moment I send my spent grains to the compost bin but was told by a neighbour that it would make a nice addition to breadmaking and would also make good chicken feed.

Is this so? If so, is it just a case of drying it in an oven?

Jas

[johnmac]

Perhaps we should all be keeping chickens. But on the other hand, two days of dawn cock-a-doodle-do and I'd have killed 'em

[Spacecowboy]

My wife is a veggie, but thankfully knows how to cook chickens etc, and hasn't tried to convert me in the past fifteen years.
I've promised her a good additional compost for the vegetable garden and green house if she lets me spend some money on brewing gear. A bonus of something different for the home-made bread might just swing it.

[Spacecowboy]

What are we supposed to do with the cow, pigs, sheep, deer, rabbits...if we don't eat them. They don't make very good ornaments

I've tried to explain that they wouldn't exist if they weren't eaten.
Serves them right for tasting so good.

[RabMaxwell]

If you want to use a little malt barley in your bread making you are better using some that hasn't been mashed as your bread will have a much better flavour. Years ago i used to take a small bag of malt barley to my work & throw a handful into my brown rolls & loafs it now comes already mixed in with there wholemeal flower

[maltman14]

point of lay £3 for a Warren.
Living in the upper valleys of Wales my spent grain feeds the local mountain pony's of which there are some terrible specimens .
Why the RSPCA does not prosecute the owners baffles me.