brewer's grain

6.3

Leftover grain from making beer that farmers feed to animals

noun
/ˈbruːərz ɡreɪn/

Specialized

: grano de cervecero

Farmers often use brewer's grain as livestock feed.

Examples

Dairy farms often supplement their cattle feed with brewer's grain for added nutrition.
Pigs and chickens can both benefit from the protein in brewer's grain.
After the beer was brewed, the leftover brewer's grain was delivered to a local farm.
The local brewery sells brewer's grains to nearby farms.
The farmer fed the cattle with leftover brewer's grain from the local brewery.
After the brewing process, we saved the brewer's grain to nourish our pigs.
Many dairy farms rely on brewer's grain as a nutritious supplement for their livestock.

Synonyms

spent grain

vsbrewer's grain

Specialized

1 7.3

Leftover grain from making beer that farmers use as animal feed

is the brewing term for the same residue without added location detail

draff

vsbrewer's grain

9.9

Grain left after making beer that farmers use to feed animals

refers to the residue more generally rather than only that left in the mash-kettle

How Whole

tea leaf

1.0

brewer's grain

Specialized

6.3

Surface Forms

brewer's grain singular

brewer's grains plural

Morphology

brewer's + grain

The meaning is compositionally derivable: 'brewer's' signals possession/association with someone who brews and 'grain' denotes cereal seed, so a learner can infer it is grain related to brewing. Although the precise technical sense (the spent residue after mashing) is domain-specific, the general idea of grain associated with brewing (often used as feed) is predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Brewer's grain comes from the real leftovers of making beer: the brewer soaks and cooks grain to get the sugars, and the wet grain left after this is given to farms. So, 'brewer's grain' means the leftover grain from brewing that is used as 'animal feed'.