Brewing Beer, Baking Bread And Berating Boring Bandwagons

Yesterday, me and Alex tried our hand at brewing our own beer using a kit I bought him for his birthday a few weeks ago. Today, I'm going to be attempting to make bread using the spent grain.

If you're not familiar with the beer brewing process, the grain (malt) is used in the first part of the process. It's heated in water at just under 70°C for around an hour - this is called mashing. The purpose is to get all the sugars out of the grain so the yeast has something to feast on later in the process.

Once the mashing part has finished, the grain is no longer needed, but it can be used for other things.

Many big breweries send their spent grain to farms to be used as animal feed. But when you're homebrewing on a tiny scale like us, it's quite common to use the spent grain for something like dog treats, flapjacks or bread.

I don't like waste, so I love the idea that the grain can be repurposed.

And if you've followed me for any amount of time, you know I talk a lot about repurposing content. It's the same thing - taking something that served it's purpose in one place and using it for something else.

I need to make my bread quite quickly or the grain will be no good. But with content, you can repurpose it over and over for years to come.

Or at least you can if you create evergreen content.

Bandwagon content doesn't have quite the same shelf-life.