We've been on a 10bbl system for the past couple years with a mix of 10, 20, and 30bbl fv's. At the end of the year we will be adding a 30 bbl brewhouse with 5 90bbl fv's. We currently store our spent grain in 55gal drums that are picked up weekly by a farmer (15-20 drums a week). Trying to wrap my head around the numbers of that increasing to 80-90 drums a week. Our farmer wants as much as he can get, but I'm trying to figure out a more efficient way thatn to store it in the 55gal drums. What do other similarly sized breweries to do get rid of your spent grain?
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our farmer has a trailer that he picks up every day. As we are planning another expansion we will be buying 2 double axles dumping trailers. I dont think storing drums is an option at all. He needs to plan on picking up everyday or at least every other or the smell will get bad and attract flies. Unless you have good trailers most will leak and so it would be a good idea on planning some type of drainageMike Eme
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IBC totes
How about totes? We grain out of our 15bbl Specific Mechanical mash tun into slightly modified totes. A few minutes with a sawzall, and they mate right up to the manway on our tun. Depending on the gravity, we use 1 or two per batch. They'd hold much more, but we are limited by the manway height, which would not likely be an issue on a 30bbl. Easily moved around by pallet jack or fork truck, built in drainage, stackable, pretty sweet overall.
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Originally posted by beerguy1 View Postour farmer has a trailer that he picks up every day. As we are planning another expansion we will be buying 2 double axles dumping trailers. I dont think storing drums is an option at all. He needs to plan on picking up everyday or at least every other or the smell will get bad and attract flies. Unless you have good trailers most will leak and so it would be a good idea on planning some type of drainage
I have also used a grain out silo, where the bottom valve is a 12 inch wide slide gate. Just make sure you have enough space for a full 2 days of brewing and make sure the farmer knows they have to come by everyday, but they can come anytime they want. 5pm, 10pm, 4am, etc etc.
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Originally posted by MikeyB View PostHow about totes? We grain out of our 15bbl Specific Mechanical mash tun into slightly modified totes. A few minutes with a sawzall, and they mate right up to the manway on our tun. Depending on the gravity, we use 1 or two per batch. They'd hold much more, but we are limited by the manway height, which would not likely be an issue on a 30bbl. Easily moved around by pallet jack or fork truck, built in drainage, stackable, pretty sweet overall.[ATTACH]37295[/ATTACH]
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Originally posted by MikeyB View PostWe have the entire top cut out, so they can be easily shoveled out.Mike Eme
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Storing Spent Grain from 30-90bbl Batches
We are on a 30bbl system. Our farmer uses an old manure spreader trailer to collect the grain. He drops it off the morning of the brew and trucks it off afterwords. I've fit nearly 5000lb (dry weight) of grain in with no problem. It does leak some so try make sure to drain as much liquid as you can before graining out. Our drainage under the trailer isn't as good as I'd like. I'd suggest trying to do a sloped drain under where the trailer will park to reduce the mess!
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We have one of these from Heavbilt
Originally posted by heavybilt View Post[ATTACH]38571[/ATTACH] Here is an example of two dry grain bins and one spent grain on the left.
Todd
NoDa Brewing
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Todd--From your handle, I take it you're in N. Dakota?
Do you have any problems with the spent grain freezing in the silo? We just went through some serious sub-zero weather, but I'd expect N.D. would see worse.Timm Turrentine
Brewerywright,
Terminal Gravity Brewing,
Enterprise. Oregon.
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Timm- Check out this website... ( http://www.powerblanket.com/ ) Here is what some of my customers in the northern states have used in the past.
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