Brew Grain - a health food for pigs?

We drink a delicious, locally brewed beer. The pigs get the byproducts. Nothing goes to waste.

Beer is essentially an infusion of roasted malted barley and sometimes other grains that is left to sit and ferment. When the carbohydrate rich grain tea is made, the brew master is left with a mash of high protein, high fiber, low carb material. Sounds like a health food, right? It is, and the pigs love it. 

We take this mash once a week and feed it to our pigs. The protein and fiber are excellent for their growth and digestion. The roasted compounds in the malt help to create that complex, nutty, rich flavor in their fat. The compilations of hundreds of different food items these guys get to digest.

They are not able to do well on this alone, so it is just a supplement. The spent grain does not contain the needed energy to put those proteins to good use. But it gives the diversity that we are looking for. 

This also means that if you enjoy a brew at Bullquarian Brewhouse here in Monroe, rest assured that nothing is going to waste. Somewhere north of town, a small herd of pigs is consuming everything that the brew process left behind. 

Cheers!