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I went to the local brewery the other day to pick up some grains and went back to my composting system at the local coffee shop where I constructed a bin full of the following, 7 days ago:
– 28 gal spent brewery grains
– 5 gal coffee grounds
– 2 gal food scraps
– lots of leaves (mostly dried)
– a tad bit of wood shavings

The photo of the temp was day 6. Today is day 7 and the needle finally started falling, registering 162F, meaning the peak was 165F for around 3 days. As the temp continues to drop, at some point I’ll turn out the bin to get it to heat up again. And then again. And probably once more.

The bins on the ride side of the system are all full of leaves only, except for the one on the far right that I co-opted for my bin of spent grains. I usually put just a few gallons of spent grains in my piles but the farmer that usually takes the bulk of the grains wasn’t able to pick any up, so I took them all and decided to make a pile with mostly spent grains to see how it would work out. It seems to be going well.

I left out the photo of me having a pint with the brewers after loading the second batch of grains in my car.