What are you doing with homebrew today?

Hopefully kegging my ale and putting another one on the yeast
 
i Need to clean a keg. I have some 6 week old slurry I am going to make a starter with to see if I’m good to go with it next Saturday.
 
Opinions for this blonde ale (Us 05 yeast) seems complete fermentation should I cold crash?
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I ground up grains for a "Fridge Cleaner" today. One of the grains had a bit of a rancid odor. I put it in anyway. After this batch I will have to toss the rest of the odds and ends. Shame as there is several pounds of leftover grain.
 
Megary said:
Good to know. Thanks for the reply.
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I’ve left a wheat beer in the fermenter for 2 months and had no issues. It was in my fermentadeezer and held at 5C for two weeks of the two months until I could get the time to bottle. Herm’s got me beat hands down.
 
I got the Oatmeal Porter in the keg this morning. This might be tasty when it carbs. Also took it up to 32 IBUs with the Kent Goldings and Fuggle. This ought to be interesting.
 
west1m said:
I ground up grains for a "Fridge Cleaner" today. One of the grains had a bit of a rancid odor. I put it in anyway. After this batch I will have to toss the rest of the odds and ends. Shame as there is several pounds of leftover grain.
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Give them to a farmer.
 
Chickens eat the grain? Neighbor has a few
 
I have a batch of spent now , and an assortment of odds and ends of older fresh . I'll have to see if they want it.
 
On yeah the chickens will eat spent mash, hell, I trade mine out with a local chicken owner for a couple dozen eggs...no reason the birds will turn up a beak to old grain...hell, they eat grubs and will pick through cow poo for corn kernels...no bec fin there mon ami !
west1m said:
I have a batch of spent now , and an assortment of odds and ends of older fresh . I'll have to see if they want it.
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Spent grain (as the name implies) has little to no food value for them. They get the fiber, but not the starch/sugar, which can actually make them sick. Unusable old grain is okay, but too much grain can make them fat. Cracked is better than whole, but it doesn’t have to be as fine as mash grain. Mix the grain with other things like sunflower and raisins and sprinkle that in the yard. They’ll be busy scratching for the mix and leave each other alone. Bored chickens can be very aggressive with their coop mates. If you wash the shells after using the eggs and get all the membrane out, then dry them in the oven to remove any raw egg taste, crush that and mix with the homemade scratch. The shells are easier to absorb and reuse than processing fresh limestone for layers. Layers do best with a high protein low fat diet but meat birds can have more fat. Too much fat can make them stop laying, which really isn’t a problem with meat birds.

Chickens will eat ANYTHING. They’re just domesticated scavengers. Use the grains to make treats for them and they will practically stampede every time they see you coming.
 
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