Brewers: The Malt Exchange wants your spent grain
Their goal is to connect Ontario brewers with Ontario farmers.
The Malt Exchange considers itself a matchmaking service for brewers in Ontario who are interested in donating their spent grain to farmers who in turn can use it for feed.
The benefits seem considerable, as spent grain can occupy valuable brewery space until discarded to a landfill, and farmers net large amounts of feed for free.
Owner, Signe Langford, explains, “Spent malt still has a lot of goodness left in it. True, almost all of the sugars have been leached out in the brewing process, but there’s still nutrients in there, and bulk, and critters find it damn tasty; from chickens to pigs to cows. The shocking truth is, some brewers have no recourse but to send the useful, tasty stuff to the landfill!”
Langford indicates she is currently in search of brewers in the Ottawa and Whitby areas to participate.
In 2011, The Malt Exchange paired Toronto’s Granite Brewery with The Kawartha Ecological Growers.
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