Codename : Chocolate Spent Grain Granola
Once the beer has been brewed, what does one do with the spent grain? Try making granola! In this case, using my previous recipe as a base, and using some cocoa and chocolate chips
Ingredients
- 3 C rolled oats
- 1 C spent grain (see notes below)
- 3/4 C brown sugar
- 1/4 warm water
- 1/3 C cocoa powder
- 1/2 C chocolate chips (or measure with your heart)
- 1 cup cashews/peanuts/pecans/walnuts (or your favourite nut), coarsely chopped
- 2/3 cup sunflower seeds (or your other favourite seed substitute)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 2 Tbsp chia seeds (optional)
- 1 cup of your favourite dried fruit, such as raisins or cranberries (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 275F
- Combine water and sugar, stir thoroughly until the sugar is dissolved
- Add in salt, vanilla and cinnamon, stir
- Add oats and spent grain, stir until everything is coated with the sugar water
- Add the rest of the ingredients (leave out the dried fruit for now), once again stirring everything until the contents are uniformly distributed.
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment
- Spread the mixture on the cookie sheet
- Bake for 45 minutes
- Sprinkle the chocolate chips on the granola
- Put back into the oven and cook for 5 minutes, just long enough to melt the chocolate chips
- Remove from the oven, and sprinkle on your optional dried fruit
- Allow the granola to cool on a rack for approximately one hour.
- Once everything has cooled, break it up, and store in an airtight container.
Made from the spent grain of my most recent Irish Red Ale.
Notes
- I used dehydrated spent grain, although I have to think wet spent grain would work
- The chocolate chips remained gooey, not a big problem, but I would just add them cold to the mixture as I put it into storage next time



Baking day : 30-Jan-2025