As his title suggests, Jay Bell B次元官网网址� Brewer, Chief of Procurement and Other Silly Things B次元官网网址� is responsible for a variety of tasks at Hoyne Brewing Co.

Farmer wrangling is among those jobs.

The beer making process can leave behind roughly 675,000 pounds a year of spent grain. Instead of finding disposal, the Victoria brewery instead disperses it to small farms to feed cattle.

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Staff take barley and break the kernels down, leaving big chunks of husk. They hit it with hot water and heat to 65 C to convert those starches to fermentable sugars and let it sit a bit. The grain is carefully filtered with water, B次元官网网址済etting all that good sweetness out,B次元官网网址� then drained and left behind like a mash tun of oatmeal.

Staff dig it out of the mash tun and put it in containers for farmers to pick up. Hoyne staff know roughly how much will be left behind, and when, at the start of the week.

ThatB次元官网网址檚 when B次元官网网址渇armer wranglingB次元官网网址� begins for Bell.

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Pickup logistics are important so the big bins donB次元官网网址檛 sit around getting smelly. Luckily, the company has cultivated relationships and works with seven to 10 small area farms at any given time.

While the grain has been juiced of some nutrients, it still holds value as cattle feed.

B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 still useful. It canB次元官网网址檛 be the only thing that they feed cattle but they can definitely make up a good bulk with this,B次元官网网址� Bell said. B次元官网网址淭hey appreciate it, and they show it.B次元官网网址�

The partnership is a classic win-win B次元官网网址� disposing of spent barley could also become a costly problem.