Perhaps not mushroom for this thread?

[Mike Smith]

just read a “six uses” article for spent grain, one of which was using it to grow mushrooms. By all accounts, you sterilise some cardboard, mix it with grain and then whack it it a sterile box with some mushroom spore. Not a great deal out there on the web for small scale. Anyone ever tried it?

 

[MyQul]

Never even heard of it but I deffo like the idea. Do you have the link for what you read?

 

[Sadfield]

I've seen similar, using spent coffee grounds. Not sure how you'd go about sterilising cardboard, though.

 

[Bigcol49]

Hi @Mike Smith
You sound like a fungi

 

[Mike Smith]

Never even heard of it but I deffo like the idea. Do you have the link for what you read?

Here's the original:

https://learn.kegerator.com/using-spent-grain/

 

[Mike Smith]

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I've seen similar, using spent coffee grounds. Not sure how you'd go about sterilising cardboard, though.

They reckon you can boil it in the GF.

There's a couple of YouTubes on now to make a monobox.

Sounds intriguing. I'll let you know if I get hooked or not.

 

[Clint]

Boil it in the gf....

 

[-Bezza-]

Something in the dark recesses of my brain is saying @Drunkula was talking about this a little while back. Or had possibly tried it?

 

[Bigcol49]

. . . in the dark recesses of my brain . . .

Do we really want to go there?

 

[BarnBrian]

Do we really want to go there?

If it was Gunge, definitely not.

 

[Drunkula]

Something in the dark recesses of my brain is saying @Drunkula was talking about this a little while back. Or had possibly tried it?

Not me - I'd try it, though. I've been giving spent grain the the geese. They still won't stop bullying me.

 

[-Bezza-]

Not me - I'd try it, though. I've been giving spent grain the the geese. They still won't stop bullying me.

You must be in the dark recesses of my mind for another reason then.

I'll try and figure out who it was.

 

[phildo79]

Tesco sell 380g mushrooms for 82p. These would need to be some seriously good mushrooms from spent grain.

 

[geigercntr]

If you're happy giving away a good chunk of personal information, there's a UK mushroom growing group on Facebook.

I'm a member as it's something I've often toyed with trying, but never got round to...

Link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mushroomgrowinguk/

 

[geigercntr]

Tesco sell 380g mushrooms for 82p. These would need to be some seriously good mushrooms from spent grain.

They also sell 4 packs of beer for £1 and yet here we all are!

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/250035645

 

[-Bezza-]

It was @Druncan (which probably explains why I thought it was @Drunkula

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/courses-training.75631/#post-744393

Seems there was a bit of interest from others on how to go about growing mushrooms on spent grain.

 

[BeerCat]

I like the idea of growing some oysters. Might get some spores and give it a go.

 

[phildo79]

They also sell 4 packs of beer for £1 and yet here we all are!

Craft mushrooms?