brewers' spent grains

English

Alternative forms

  • brewers' spent grain
  • brewers spent grains
  • brewers spent grain
  • brewer's spent grains
  • brewer's spent grain

Noun

brewers' spent grains pl (plural only)

  2. A byproduct from brewing that is comparable to the distillers' grains from distilling and can be put to some of the same uses, such as animal feed supplementation; it comprises what is left of the malted grains after the fermentation, which includes much cellulose, lignin, other fiber, and proteins.
    Alternative form: BSG (initialism)
    Hypernyms: grain, grains
    Coordinate term: distillers' grains
    Near-synonym: draff (sometimes synonymous)
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