Absolutely add the brewing leftovers to your pile. We used to get it from a local outfit ... they would call when they had a batch ready. We used their 30-gallon cans to bring it home in. We just rinsed them with the hose and returned them. I found it to have a pleasant, yeasty smell. Of course it was extremely fresh when we acquired it. In fact, I scooped out a bucketful and used in baking bread ... best bread I've ever made.
We did make one horrible mistake with it though. We got a load one winter when there was too much snow to haul it to the compost pile. So we thought how clever we were to just pile it up in the driveway till Spring. Well ... that pile was a real moose magnet. We had them grazing in the driveway the rest of the winter. Never again!
Sherry
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