{"id":19008,"date":"2015-11-09T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T15:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=19008"},"modified":"2015-11-09T11:05:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T16:05:42","slug":"what-can-you-do-with-spent-beer-grains-eat-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/what-can-you-do-with-spent-beer-grains-eat-em\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can You Do With Spent Beer Grains? Eat ‘Em…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve dug into multiple efforts to deal with the waste products<\/a> that come from brewing beer<\/a>, but most of those treat spent beer grains like an industrial ingredient. Turns out, the barley left over after brewing is edible: brewers are interested in the sugars, and the rest goes by the wayside (i.e. to the landfill, or to animal feed). That “spent” grain still has a lot of nutritional value left: 6 grams of dietary fiber and 3.5 grams of protein in the average cup of “waste” barley.<\/p>\n

Home brewers Dan Kuzrock and Jordan Schwartz recognized the amount of waste generated just in their own hobbyist efforts, and figured (rightly) that larger-scale brewers were tossing out tons\u00a0of barley after extracting a mere 10% of its nutritional value. They founded Regrained<\/a> to do something with those beer grains: namely, to turn them into healthy, delicious snacks. Partnering with a number of San Francisco-area craft breweries, Dan and Jordan started experimenting with different grains, and through lots of testing, came up with their Honey Almond IPA and Chocolate Coffee Stout bars.<\/p>\n

So far, their efforts at developing recipes, producing them, and then packaging them for sale, have all been done by hand in shared kitchen space. The bars are getting good reviews from customers, the partners see ways they could improve their business, and so they’ve decided its time to take this to the next step. They’ve launched a crowdfunding campaign on food-focused platform Barnraiser<\/a>\u00a0to raise $30,000 by December 10. I’ll let them explain:<\/p>\n