Each week Lansing Brewing Company makes gallons of its own craft beer.
Any given day the staff can brew 40 barrels worth of beer and to make better tasting craft beer you need hundreds of pounds of grain.
"Our grain sits in here, we actually go in here first, that's where it mixes with water," said Sawyer Stevens, head of brewing for Lansing Brewing. "It sits there, we extract all of the sugar that we need from it."
After it's done mixing they're left with pounds of spent grain.
"We try to reduce and or reuse everything that we do in here. Grains especially because that's a product to us," said Stevens.
Instead of tossing out the grain they give it to their biggest customers. Livestock.
"We take it all whatever they got we'll take" said Doug Fleming about getting spent grain from Lansing Brewing Company.
At the end of the week Doug Fleming collects all of that spent grain and feeds it to his cattle.
"They're gonna eat around 18 pounds and usually a third of that ends up being the brewers grain." Fleming said. "So 6 or 7 pounds a day each cow is going to eat of brewers grain."
Each grain is full of protein. All of those nutrients allow the cows to gain more weight and stay healthy.
"It's easier for them to digest because it's partially already been broken down for them, that's another reason it's really good for them as well" said Fleming.
He says the partnership with Lansing Brewing Company is a match made in farmers heaven.
"They brew the grain. The leftover grain comes to the farm.The farm gets it feed to the pigs" Fleming explains.
A cycle the two hope to continue.
