How to use spent brewing grain?

[AndtheStars]

My husband is a brewer so I have access to large quantities of spent grain. DH wants me to figure out a way to use this grain to make bread but I don't think that it's really feasible or realistic. I know I could throw a few handfuls into a bread recipe, but I think he's talking more like making flour out of the grain. It's barley (mostly) cracked and then boiled (basically). I'm guessing that most of the stuff (sugars and starches) that is necessary for good flour has be brewed out. Any ideas? Could I dry it in in the oven and grind it? The brewery currently gives all the spent grain to a local farmer to feed his cows so it's going to a good place. DH is just fixated on using it as a food source for us somehow

[greenmulberry]

Get chickens! They will turn spent grains into eggs for you.

[velochic]

Compost it!

[hildare]

we feed it to cows, but the other animals will eat it too.
dh does the feed stuff in our household, and there's something you have to do to combine it for efficiency if you do use it for the cows, i will ask him and update if you're interested. they love it though.
you can also just straight up compost it, too...
the local big brewery (terrapin) makes a spent grain bread, and someone i know makes cookies, i will ask and see how much gets used for the recipes, but i don't think it's an awful lot.
brewer dh's rock!

[AndtheStars]

Thanks for the responses, guys! DH is a professional brewer so the grain from the brewery is being given to a local farmer as feed. DH is just thinking that we should somehow be using some of the grain for...something since it's free. I know that another local brewery uses it for spent grain bread but all they do is throw a couple handfulls in each loaf. I think that I'm spending more energy thinking about this than necessary. Maybe if DH is so intent on finding something to do with it...HE should be on MDC looking

[velochic]

Wow! I was thinking home-brewing (small-scale!!) If he is brewing commercially, then the best bet is to see if those farmers will give back a side of meat or some such thing in trade for the grain. You don't have to personally use the grain to still benefit from it (financially, that is, as nutritionally it's no longer really fit for human consumption - it would be non-nutritional filler, I would assume). Good luck with finding a way to use this. I think that it's great that you're trying to find a good use for what seems to be a useless by-product.