Spent grain

This is my attempt at the loaf that Bread1965 was trying to recreate quite a while ago. I was able to get my hands on the real version of this bread and it is delicious! In this recipe, I tried to be faithful to the order of the ingredients listed on the package. The last 4 ingredients always puzzled me because they were after the salt until I clued in one day that they are used for the topping and are not in the bread. That would explain the tiny amounts. Recipe: 100 g of rye berries968 g…

Food sustainability is something that is near and dear to the Forge To Table brand and goals. We believe that any chance to remove food waste from the chain is a small win that adds up to a big win over time! For Earth Day, we wanted to put out a recipe that utilized food waste in a delicious spent grain cracker!One hobby that our CEO Noah Rosen and Northeastern Representative Sam Burgess have picked up recently is homebrewing. It is a rewarding hobby and they both love sharing recipes and…

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Instead of simply throwing away your spent brewer's grain, why not use it for something else? Here are six ways you can use your spent grain.

Rebecca Kern, an animal scientist who works with livestock producers, argues that brewers are missing out by viewing spent grains as waste instead of a “co-product.”

For those of us who brew beer using the all grain method, some of us want to do something with the grain when we are done brewing. Sure, we can feed it to our friend's livestock, or put it in the compost pile. However, there are some other ways to use the spent grains in cooking. One easy recipe is Biertreberbrot, spe

We talk a lot about the finished (and delicious) products and the process to create them, but what happens to what's left behind? We're chatting spent grain with beer pros on the blog--from farms, to dog biscuits, bread, even paper -there are many innovative ways of repurposing what's left over after brewing!

These peanut butter cookies pack a serious spent grain punch. With equal parts dried spent grain, spent grain flour and regular flour, they really hit the spot!

Basil appreciates a good brew day just as much as we do, but for his own selfish reasons — he knows he's going to get some fresh dog cookies made with the leftover spent grains from the brew! You might remember we recently stopped by our friends' house (Clay and Corrina of 2 Noble Dog Brewing) during brew day and took Basil along for the fun. They were so nice to send us home with two heaping containers full of spent grains from the brew to work with and we ended up making a mega batch of…

How to Use Spent Beer Grains for Baking: This is a short how-to on how I process spent beer grains from home-brewing beer into a healthful, tasty, and inexpensive ingredient I can use in bread, cornbread, stews, and even cakes and cookies. I buy and use grains for making beer, so thi…