spent grain
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- noun
- /spɛnt ɡreɪn/
- Specialized
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- From then until Christmas, diners at all three Pizzeria Paradiso locations will be able to order a spent grain pizza dough with any pizza for an extra $2.
Examples
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Beginning the day after Thanksgiving, DC Brau will deliver its spent grain to the pizzeria daily.
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The specialty is their Reuben sandwich, made with beef fed with spent grain from brewing and served on bread made with some of the same grain.
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So, bud and I are gonna Take some of that spent grain.
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We've got this spent grain From the brewery.
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One brewer's spent grain is another's pizza dough.
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PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): Spent grain (above) from Anheuser-Busch's 12 breweries is recycled into animal feed.
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In addition to the pizza dough, Pizzeria Paradiso will also use the spent grain delivered next Wednesday to make about 100 loaves of freshly baked bread for Bread for the City.
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DC Brau and Pizzeria Paradiso are teaming up to create a pizza dough made with spent grain, a byproduct of the brewing process that normally goes to waste or is sold for livestock feed.
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Farmers often use spent grain from breweries as a nutritious feed for their livestock.
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The brewery donates its spent grain to local farms, where it is used to feed animals.
Synonyms
Leftover grain from making beer that farmers feed to animals
Grain left after making beer that farmers use to feed animals
Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'spent' in the extended sense 'used up/exhausted' and 'grain' as cereal seed can plausibly infer that 'spent grain' refers to grain that has been used or left over, so a general residual meaning is derivable from the parts. However, the precise brewing-specific sense (residue after mashing/lautering) and its typical use as animal feed are domain-specific and not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
Spent grain comes from the simple picture of grains that are spent ('used') after making beer and are left behind as wet grain. Breweries often give these leftovers to farmers for cows, so the term means the leftover grain from brewing that is used as 'animal feed'.