FOR FARMERS AND BREWERS — THE GREAT CIRCLE OF GRAIN IS SAFE

Source: LA Times
Farmer John and Brewer Bill can breathe a sighs of relief as the FDA announced plans to reevaluate newly proposed regulations to the age-old symbiotic relationship between brewers and farmers. Beer is of course made with copious amounts of grain — mostly malted barley — and most of this grain ends up as waste at the end of the brewing process. Once brewers have extracted all the sugars and enzymes from the grain that they need to make the beer, they’re left with hundreds of pounds of wet, steaming “spent grain.” (read more)