Making pizza from spent grains

Jul 5, 2014

Using spent grains from our "Dark-eyed Junco Imperial Stout":http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/34523/15May2014/Beer-Recipe-Number-One-Imperial-Stout-March-2014 that was brewed on Mar 30, 2014.

On brew day, I placed some of the spent grains in two, thick, air-tight, plastic containers, and I placed the containers in the freezer on brew day.

A few weeks later, I pulled one of the containers from the freezer and dried the grains over about two or three day period. The soaked grains take a while to dry. I tried placing the grains in the oven for a while, but that made them wet and hot.

After the grains finally dried, I placed them into an air-tight container and placed the container in the refrigerator.

On July 5, I finally decided to try using the grains in a pizza recipe.

First, I ground some grains in our Vitamix. I pulverized the grains into a powder, but I used the Vitamix for under 30 seconds. Next time, grind for nearly a minute, since I found some twiggy-like aspects in the grains. So the spent grains are as powder as I would prefer.

The recipe: