Free Spent Grain
Your livestock will love you for it!

Our spent grains can be obtained for the cost of hauling it away from our brewery. A University of Florida publication estimated that using spent grain for a portion of a farm’s animal feed made sense economically if the brewery was within 200 miles.

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Farmers turning a brewer’s spent grain into filling and nutritional livestock feed is a relatively common practice. Some say the practice is as old as beer itself. It’s also a mutually beneficial practice. By the time our head brewer extracts the fermentable sugar from the grain used to make our beers, what’s left is a soggy mass of ground kernels. And lots of it! At Swedesboro Brewing, we can easily use 300 to 500 pounds of barley for a batch of beer.

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But those leftover soggy kernels still have value — it is highly nutritious for sheep, cattle, pigs, and even chickens. 

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A brewer’s spent grain is the most abundant byproduct generated in the beer-brewing process and could account for more than 80 percent of a brewery’s total byproduct. After we extract most of the sugars, the barley is still rich in digestible fiber and good bypass protein, which is why agricultural uses of spent grain predominate.

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Spent grain can save you as much as 30% on total cost of feed. But equally important, our spent grain provide your livestock some variation in their diet. And for that, they will love you for it!

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For more information, please contact Kevin, our Brewhouse Manager.