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Composting Spent brewing grains
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llama momma
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Composting Spent brewing grains
Do any of you use spent brewing grains in your compost? A neighbor has deal with a local brewery and is using it to feed livestock. I guess he is getting too much and offered some to me to feed my goats. A barrel of it weighs about 300 lbs and I am sure some of it will go bad before I can feed it all.
My compost is mostly manures and waste alfalfa with our household kitchen wastes. How much can I put in the compost pile? Can it be added as is to empty squares?
I may be able to get a barrel as often as a couple of times a week.
My compost is mostly manures and waste alfalfa with our household kitchen wastes. How much can I put in the compost pile? Can it be added as is to empty squares?
I may be able to get a barrel as often as a couple of times a week.
Lindacol- Posts : 777
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
The spent grains will be great in the compost pile, but I have no idea how much is too much.
Kay
Kay
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walshevak
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
This time of year I would take all I could get and layer the mash between the dried leaves in my pile.
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
Spent brewing grains sounds cool, makes me wonder if the winery up the road from me has spent grapes? Think I better visit or email them.
llama momma
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
Decided to call the winery and scored all the spent pressed grapes I could take. But most of my containers are filled with compost that is curing. Managed to collect about 30 gallons of pressed grapes and a big styrofoam container of stems. Now I'm searching online to see if this is a decent thing to add to the compost. Sure did this backwards anyway here is what it looks like:
llama momma
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
Wow, Llama Mama, looks like we both scored some good stuff for our compost piles.
Lindacol- Posts : 777
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
I'm kind of surprised that the winery isn't making grappa with all the leaving from the press........ goody for your compost!
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
Boy Lindacol and Kay, I would love to live near you! Lindacol I would not put the pressed grapes directly into the beds. It should be composted first. I would agree with Campryn about mixing with leaves. Get tons and tons of leaves. I would also try to get some manure in there also.
Triciasgarden- Posts : 1634
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
Thanks so much Lindacol for the idea of spent grains! You are right, we both lucked out. Very pleased to have this local winery source. Turns out pressed grapes has wonderful composting benefits. If anyone wants to read about composting pressed grapes, called pomace, here is a nice article
http://winemakermag.com/stories/article/indices/21-fresh-grape-winemaking/678-the-pomace-predicament
Camprn What in the world is grappa?
I don't know why the vineyard owner doesn't do anything else with it (like compost it back into his fields!)
Get this- he piles it up and periodically burns it.
Triciasgarden - hmmm, maybe I should bag this stuff and sell it
http://winemakermag.com/stories/article/indices/21-fresh-grape-winemaking/678-the-pomace-predicament
Camprn What in the world is grappa?
I don't know why the vineyard owner doesn't do anything else with it (like compost it back into his fields!)
Get this- he piles it up and periodically burns it.
Triciasgarden - hmmm, maybe I should bag this stuff and sell it
llama momma
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
It's not for the faint of heart or palate.llama momma wrote:
Camprn What in the world is grappa?
Grappa
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
Ahaa, now I know, thanks.
llama momma
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
camprn wrote:It's not for the faint of heart or palate.llama momma wrote:
Camprn What in the world is grappa?
Grappa
I had a glass of the Georgian version and boy was it it strong. I couldn't finish it.
Kay
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walshevak
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
walshevak wrote:camprn wrote:It's not for the faint of heart or palate.llama momma wrote:
Camprn What in the world is grappa?
Grappa
I had a glass of the Georgian version and boy was it it strong. I couldn't finish it.
Kay
Isn't it supposed to be about 50% alcohol?
Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
camprn wrote:It's not for the faint of heart or palate.llama momma wrote:
Camprn What in the world is grappa?
Grappa
Grappa ..
Tastes like the bottom of a parrots cage , gives you a headache in each glass and rubber legs to go with it after glass four .
I had some French friends on holiday who were trying to get me legless on their tipple . They can't handle Irish single malt whiskey & grappa
The pressings off the grapes will still have some viable seeds left in them unless you really go to town on your composting .. still that could also be your serendipity ....... wine vines as a fence .
You can make a delicious light hock using vine leaves , boiling water and a bag or three of sugar plus a reasonable 13% wine yeast.
plantoid- Posts : 4096
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
plantoid wrote:camprn wrote:It's not for the faint of heart or palate.llama momma wrote:
Camprn What in the world is grappa?
Grappa
Grappa ..
Tastes like the bottom of a parrots cage , gives you a headache in each glass and rubber legs to go with it after glass four .
I had some French friends on holiday who were trying to get me legless on their tipple . They can't handle Irish single malt whiskey & grappa
The pressings off the grapes will still have some viable seeds left in them unless you really go to town on your composting .. still that could also be your serendipity ....... wine vines as a fence .
You can make a delicious light hock using vine leaves , boiling water and a bag or three of sugar plus a reasonable 13% wine yeast.
Well Plantoid, I'm not interested in getting a buzz off this stuff lol, but I wonder if composting/fermenting will produce tipsy tomatoes? :drunken:
llama momma
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
Ahh yes, like this?
llama momma
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
Ants might invade to consume any sugars left in it whilst composting but once composted the yeasts have usaully dies & becone some thing else.
The only way I know of getting tipsy tomatoes is to inject them with neat Polish vodka and eat them 24 hrs later after chilling them in the fridge
The only way I know of getting tipsy tomatoes is to inject them with neat Polish vodka and eat them 24 hrs later after chilling them in the fridge
plantoid- Posts : 4096
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Re: Composting Spent brewing grains
plantoid wrote: The only way I know of getting tipsy tomatoes is to inject them with neat Polish vodka and eat them 24 hrs later after chilling them in the fridge
I have heard of watermelons done this way as well. Cut a hole in the rind large enough to pour in rum or brandy. Pour slowly so melon can absorb. Return rind plug and let sit overnight. Serve at picnic and make sure everyone is over 21!
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