Spent Grain Doggy Biscuits

Home brewing is something of a family affair here at the Stubbs' house. And by that, I mean Jackson and I usually head out... you know, Target... Old Navy... you get the idea. But the dogs. The dogs are Tyler's brew buddies. Kahla is a pro, and besides mowing the lawn, there's no way she'd rather spend an afternoon. Now we have a little Rebel in training, and so far he seems to be up to the task.

After all that hard work, its only fair they benefit from the brewing process. We're all about giving them a sip of hard-earned homebrew, but let's be real. They want some instant gratification, and if it involves peanut butter, even better.

Brewing results in a whole lot of 'spent grains' or wet, sloppy left over grains. The horses behind our house usually benefit (we hate to waste perfectly delicious grains). Now, we've perfected a dog biscuit recipe worthy of our four-legged helpers.

Spent Grain Dog Biscuits

4 cups spent grains
2 eggs
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups flour

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients thoroughly and press down into a thick layer on a greased cookie sheet. Use a cookie cutter to score the biscuits into your preferred shape (but don't cut them out yet!).

Put them into the oven for 30 minutes to solidify the mixture. Remove the cookie sheet from the oven and break the biscuits free. Put them back in the oven at 225 degrees for at least 3 hours or until all moisture is remove. Ain't nobody want a moldy dog treat.

Voila! put those bad boys in an airtight container and distribute at your digression. We kept all the leftovers after we cut the shapes out - who cares if those pieces aren't perfectly german shepherd-shaped? They taste equally amazing (or so Kahla seems to believe).

 

Mmm! Grains.

 

You know, I suppose I'll just have a sip...

 

Mix it up!

 

Press away.

 

Done-zo.

 

Do not ask why we have german shepherd cookie cutters. No, we did not buy it them for this particular occasion, but I suspect Tyler had something to do with this years ago. How convenient though, to have that sitting in the back of our utensil drawer...