The Food and Drug Administration would require brewers and distillers to dry and package spent grain before distributing the material to local dairy farms.
The Food and Drug Administration would require brewers and distillers to dry and package spent grain before distributing the material to local dairy farms.
The equipment and set up to do that would cost about $13 million per facility, said Scott Mennen, vice president of brewery operations at Widmer.
“That would be cost prohibitive,” Mennen said. “Most brewers would have to put this material in a landfill.”
The rule would affect brewers and distillers across the country. But it would also hurt consumers, said James Emmerson, executive brewmaster of Full Sail Brewing Co.
“Beer prices would go up for everybody to cover the cost of the equipment and installation,” said Emmerson.
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