Something you can do with the leftovers

[Wonderwoman]

Did you know you could make a lovely "Treberbrot" (spent grain bread) with the malt/spent grain after mashing? I just baked a very simple recipe for the first time last night and it turned out great (the crust is just a bit... crisp )

What you need is

500gr flour
250gr spent grain(Treber)
1 sachet of yeast
salt (don't be stingy with salt - I started with a tea spoon and ended up adding so much more, probably more like a tbs!)
250ml beer

depending on how wet/dry the grain is you may have to use less beer.

The recipe said to bake it at 220 for an hour but I ended up turning it down to 180-200. Add a cup of water to the oven.

 

[DanST]

That looks great, how does it taste compared to normal bread?

 

[Wonderwoman]

That looks great, how does it taste compared to normal bread?

Hm, that depends on what kind of bread you mean... It is definitely a German style bread, so crisp crust, less airy inside, guess nowadays you would call such thing an artisan bread :P Maybe comparable to sour dough but without being sour, if that makes sense? It's very nice actually. I've got loads of grains left, just don't know how I could best preserve them - I guess freezing would make them really wet. Such a shame we end up throwing most of it away (maybe I should start keeping pigs ).

I would really recommend though to taste the raw dough before baking it regarding the salt situation - you could add seeds or other spices to the dough. I just kept it simple to see if it's any good as I've never had it before. Also my dough ended up a little wet, so I added a lot more flour.

Best things is to mix all the ingredients apart from the salt, let it rise for a bit, then mix in the salt and let it rise again before baking.

I actually used the breadmaker for mos of the kneading as I don't really have the right kneading method. You could probably bake it in the BM, too, but I wanted it to be a round loaf. The crust wouldn't end up so hard in the BM.

edit: I will post a pic of the inside later - because I had to add more flour you can't see too much of the grains.

 

[DanST]

I think I get what you mean and it sounds good. I don't do AG brews yet but I'm definitely going to try this when I get round to it.

Being the lazy sort id likely chuck it all in the maker, see how it comes out and tweak from there.

 

[Wonderwoman]

I think I get what you mean and it sounds good. I don't do AG brews yet but I'm definitely going to try this when I get round to it.

Being the lazy sort id likely chuck it all in the maker, see how it comes out and tweak from there.

Nought wrong with that!

 

[Halfacrem]

Looks great!

I thought about keeping my grains from my brew today, but I'm not organised enough to have thought about storage.

It would be great to keep some grains back from a brew, freeze it up until the beer has matured, make a starter out of the bottle yeast and use the beer in the loaf!

 

[clibit]

The Brooklyn Brew Shop website has loads of recipes for spent grains, and how to make and store flour from spent grains.


http://brooklynbrewshop.com/themash/category/spentgrainchef/

 

[Cwrw666]

Last stout I made I kept back some of the grain after mashing and baked some bread with it mixed in. Tasted nice but gave me pretty bad stomach ache - too much roughage at a guess. The horses can have it from now on...

 

[Wonderwoman]

Last stout I made I kept back some of the grain after mashing and baked some bread with it mixed in. Tasted nice but gave me pretty bad stomach ache - too much roughage at a guess. The horses can have it from now on...

oh no! Maybe you put too much in. I can't complain about stomach ache from my bread :)

 

[ghb]

Last stout I made I kept back some of the grain after mashing and baked some bread with it mixed in. Tasted nice but gave me pretty bad stomach ache - too much roughage at a guess. The horses can have it from now on...

I gave the lass some for her horse and it looked at it , sniffed it , looked at her and then walked off. None of the other horses in the stables liked it either.
However, Chickens and cows seem to like it

 

[HebridesRob]

I gave the lass some for her horse and it looked at it , sniffed it , looked at her and then walked off. None of the other horses in the stables liked it either.
However, Chickens and cows seem to like it

So do sheep. Or maybe rabbits. The stuff I throw over the fence disappears somehow. :whistle:

 

[Wilfy]

I made dog biscuits once with a recipe that someone put on here. Dog loved them.

 

[Pirate_Pete]

I gave the lass some for her horse and it looked at it , sniffed it , looked at her and then walked off. None of the other horses in the stables liked it either.
However, Chickens and cows seem to like it

I haven't used grain yet, but I was wondering if it was OK to give to the chickens after. Now I know it is I might get some support from the other half when I do use grain.

 

[MyQul]

So do sheep. Or maybe rabbits. The stuff I throw over the fence disappears somehow. :whistle:

Rats?............

 

[rodabod]

We dried ours in the oven on a low temp, and then milled them finer in the blender as I find it too coarse as-is. Works well in small quantities in whole meal bread.

 

[Twostage]

Good thread. Our horses and chickens like the spent grains, as do next door's cattle, they fight over it so I have to make several piles so the dominant one can't have all of it.

I like the idea of putting it in bread, going to give it a go next time I brew.

 

[Wonderwoman]

We dried ours in the oven on a low temp, and then milled them finer in the blender as I find it too coarse as-is. Works well in small quantities in whole meal bread.

I guess if you grind it you can use a bigger proportion.