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I finished up Basic Brewing Radio’s Green Brewing podcast this morning (I’d like to link you directly to it, but there doesn’t appear to be a permalink option). Most of the tips were things I already did, — reuse Starsan, use your immersion chiller water for ____, etc. — or couldn’t do — compost the spent grains (well, I donate them to my mom’s bin) and use pool water for the chiller (which sounds damn cool). I would, however, be interested in knowing how people harvest the carbon dioxide from their fermentation for force carbonation and purging their secondaries. That’s just some voodoo stuff right there.

One of the people wrote in about using spent grains to make dog biscuits. I imagine they’re a regular at Homebrew talk, because that’s where I got the recipe from and they used ‘LHBS’ for ‘local homebrew store.’ There really isn’t an easily linkable thread for it, and they don’t give it out or link to it on BBR, so here it is for posterity:

4 cups spent grains
4 cups flour
1 cup peanut butter
1 egg

Mix it all together, form into cookie shapes and bake at 300-350 for half an hour. I flipped halfway and then let them dry our more with the oven door cracked open.

(I got the recipe from fratermus on the forums, and I think he got it from somewhere else, so as much as my librarian citation chip is going off right now I’ll have to attribute it to [Anonymous]. No, not 4chan.)

Elizabeth seemed offended that I didn’t make them into bone shapes. It’s gotten rave reviews from Suzie, Belle and Isabelle so far, and my next batch will also find its way to Taylor and Boomer, so it seems to be pretty popular. You can eat them too, by the way, but they don’t have much flavor.

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