AlchemyDistillery Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Hi all! We are thrilled to be working with a local farmer who is feeding our spent grains to her pigs. We have a few questions hopefully people with experience can answer. 1. How long is the mash safe to eat after delivering to the farm? She only has two pigs so the mash seems to be spoiling before they eat it all. 2. Anyone have a resource for nutritional content of a basic grain to bottle mash? 3. One of the pigs is pregnant and the farmer is nervous about giving her any. Anyone dealt with this? Thanks for your time!Amy Alchemy Distillery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebstauffer Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 >> One of the pigs is pregnant. The Brix reading shows no alcohol content but the farmer is still nervous about giving her any. Anyone dealt with this? Brix is a measure of grams of sucrose per 100ml of solution. It has nothing to do with alcohol content. The farmer we work with takes absolutely everything, stinky or not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captnKB Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 The farmer we work with takes everything. 400 gallons of spent corn stillage goes out the door nearly every day 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3d0g Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 The farmer we work with takes everything. 400 gallons of spent corn stillage goes out the door nearly every day Does he mind the liquid vs lautered spent grains like typically seen from the brewers? I'd think stillage would have advantages - sterile from the boil, longer shelf life with the low pH, etc. Does he bring his own tank or do you swap IBC totes, etc? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captnKB Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 We do 100 corn whiskey and pump the stillage straight from the still into IBCs liquid and all. He then takes the IBCs full of stillage from the distillery to his farm and dumps them then brings the IBCs back on the same day so we can refill them again the next day 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlchemyDistillery Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 >> One of the pigs is pregnant. The Brix reading shows no alcohol content but the farmer is still nervous about giving her any. Anyone dealt with this? Brix is a measure of grams of sucrose per 100ml of solution. It has nothing to do with alcohol content. The farmer we work with takes absolutely everything, stinky or not. I misspoke. I just meant between Original Specific Gravity and Final Gravity we calculated no ABV. Thanks for your input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlchemyDistillery Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 Does he mind the liquid vs lautered spent grains like typically seen from the brewers? I'd think stillage would have advantages - sterile from the boil, longer shelf life with the low pH, etc. Does he bring his own tank or do you swap IBC totes, etc? Our farmer likes the liquid. We personally deliver to the farm. I haul a full IBC tote and pump into another IBC tote on site that I gave her. We are fortunate that our local cheese company gives them to us so we have quite a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3d0g Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 We do 100 corn whiskey and pump the stillage straight from the still into IBCs liquid and all. He then takes the IBCs full of stillage from the distillery to his farm and dumps them then brings the IBCs back on the same day so we can refill them again the next day Thanks. That's precisely my plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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