It's a longstanding relationship, brewers use cereal grains to make beer and other malt products, and are left with a byproduct, brewers grain. This is essentially waste to the brewer, but still has a use as an animal feed. Farmers and monasteries in Europe used to use grain to brew, and then fed the grain after to livestock. In more recent times, many breweries, especially smaller microbreweries that looked to keep costs down, developed a relationship with farmers. The farmer got a low cost source of quality feed, the brewer got a cheap, low cost way to get rid of a waste product. Well, the FDA has decided that won't do, we must be protected after all!
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