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BBC: How beer sludge is being turned into vegan milk and leather
25 Nov 2025
BBC explores the use-cases of BSG in various industries - from ingredients for the food industry (Upgrain) to various other applications such as vegan milk and leather.
Scientists and industry are finding unusual new uses for brewers' spent grain – the beer industry's largest waste product.
Ponder the idea of a beer well-brewed and enthusiastic drinkers at least are likely to imagine a pint glass filled to the brim with golden nectar.
What they probably won't picture is the mountains of wet sticky shavings that pile up as the largest waste material of brewing beer.
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