The residues that remain when a brewery makes beer or whiskey are called spent grain or brewer’s spent grain (BSG).
The residues that remain when a brewery makes beer or whiskey are called spent grain or brewer’s spent grain (BSG). Spent grain is available in large quantities, and is full of proteins and amino acids that should be possible to use.
In practice, however, spent grain is mostly used as an additive in animal feed, unless it is simply thrown away.
Now, a PhD research fellow at the Department of Biotechnology and Food Science at NTNU has found a way to use spent grain.
Read more at: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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