Sustainable Homebrewing by Amelia Slayton Loftus

Author:Amelia Slayton Loftus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: beer, homebrewing, homesteading, self-sufficiency, self-sufficient, homebrewer, organic beer, brewing equipment, solar energy, recipes, sustainability, recycle water, beer styles, crafting beer, organic brewing, green brewing
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Published: 2014-05-20T20:09:58+00:00

Vermiculture

Vermiculture — composting with worms — is another way to use up spent brewing grains. If you have a worm bin already, you can start feeding spent grain to your worms. They love it, but you have to be careful because too high a concentration of spent grain can be too much for the little guys to handle all at once. I add no more than 50 percent spent grain to the total amount of compostable material I feed each week. If worm composting is your only method of composting, you might have too much grain after an all-grain batch to add all at once. You can divide up the grain to add in stages by freezing it in portions. Quart-size yogurt containers work well; thaw one portion per week and add to your worm bin.

Worm bins are a great way for urban dwellers to compost without concerning the neighbors, because they are small enough to use in a kitchen or mudroom or deck, they do not smell much when maintained properly, and they create a manageable amount of compost for container gardening. Some cities or municipal waste haulers even offer free or low-cost worm composting bins to local residents to encourage this wonderful method of recycling!

If a premade worm composter is out of your budget range, you can make one yourself out of two large plastic bins, the kind you get at a hardware or big box store, or even a series of nested plastic buckets. Plans are readily available online. And you can even order the worms online — digging up regular earthworms from your garden isn’t recommended because they don’t do as well in a composter as red wigglers (Eisenia fetida), which seem to thrive in the containers.

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