The Definitive Guide to Home Brewed Beer…
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“Well ya see, Norm, it’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers.” -Cliff Clavin, of Cheers
"One of the hallmarks of the baby boomer generation is that it doesn't live like the previous generation. It hasn't yet given up jeans and T-shirts or beer." -Ron Klugman, SVP, Coors Brewing
Beer is the world's oldest and most popular alcoholic beverage and the 3rd most popular drink overall after water and tea, selling more than 133 billion litres (35 billion gallons) a year. It is produced through the fermentation of starch-based material, commonly barley, though cassava root in Africa, corn in Brazil, and agave in Mexico, among other starch sources, have been used.
Only beverages produced by this method are actually considered to be beer. Neither alcoholic beverages made from the fermentation of sugars derived from non-starch sources (e.g., grape juice or honey), nor beverages which are distilled after fermentation should be classified as such. Read more...
April 26th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Supposedly, you can make bred from it. I tried once and it was terrible. I tried feeding it to birds. They ignored it. Commercial quantities are used for animal feed. I toss mine on the compost pile.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Heck Yea!
I home brew with all-grain too. I use the grains that are left over for a few things.
1.) Spent Grain Bread - many recipes on the interwebs for this but mainly, make a whole wheat bread and add in a few cups of your spent grains and mix em in. Also use them to coat the top before you bake it.
2.) If you have dogs (or neighbors with dogs), there are a few easy recipes for home made dog biscuits with some honey and I forget what else.
3.) Granola or trail mix - google search, but I think it is honey, oats, add whatever else you want and spread it on a cookie sheet at low temp to dry
4.) Use it for a second runnings for a lighter session beer, especially if you have a high gravity beer to begin with.
5.) Compost it! We use the rest of the grain to make compost which we spread on our garden and hops so we can make more beer which gives us with more grain to compost which gives up more hops to we can make more beer which…you get the point.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Make Dog Biscuits
Note that hops can be toxic to dogs. Do not use grains that have seen hops.
4 cups spent grain
4 cups flour
1 cup peanut butter
1 egg
Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Press down into a dense layer on a large cookie sheet. Score almost all the way through into the shapes you want. Bake for about half an hour at 350 F to solidify them. Loosen them from the sheet, break the biscuits apart and return them, loosely spread out on the cookie sheet, to the oven at 225 F for 8 to 10 hours to dry them very thoroughly to prevent mold growth. Store in an airtight container to keep them dry and mold-free.