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VIDEO: Victoria beer brewer boosts local cattle farms with spent grain

Disposing of spent grain could be a costly problem for brewer, but helps farmers’ bottom lines

As his title suggests, Jay Bell – Brewer, Chief of Procurement and Other Silly Things – is responsible for a variety of tasks at Hoyne Brewing Co.

Farmer wrangling is among those jobs.

The beer making process can leave behind roughly 675,000 pounds a year of spent grain. Instead of finding disposal, the Victoria brewery instead disperses it to small farms to feed cattle.

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Christine van Reeuwyk

About the Author: Christine van Reeuwyk

I'm dedicated to serving the community of Oak Bay as a senior journalist with the Greater Victoria news team.
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