spent-grain thin mints

I'm a big fan of the chocolate-mint flavor combo, and my wife is kind enough to indulge me. She recently made a batch of the Spent Grain Thin Mints featured in the Brooklyn Brewshop recipe site. The comments on that page are kind of mixed, but the cookies my wife made turned out great--very minty and chocolaty. There was a slight grittiness from the spent grains, but it actually added pleasant texture (and helped to slow me down a bit--I've been known to go through a half dozen thin mints before I even realize it).

baking with spent-grain flour

My girlfriend recently used some of the spent-grain flour she'd made, which I mentioned in a previous post, in a batch of spinach and cheese hand pies. She based the dough on the "Spent Grain Apple Hand Pie" recipe from the Spent Grain Chef page of the Brooklyn Brewshop website (a great recipe resource), though she modified the recipe some. The spinach she used was grown in our garden, and the pies were delicious!

I think it'd be awesome to open up a cafe like the Cerveceria de Mateveza that focused on small-batch craft beer and spent grain hand pies. What else do you need in life?