This upcycled flour is made from spent beer grain
Did you know that the average craft brewery generates two tons of "spent grain" every week? That’s up to 500 pounds per ten kegs. This is why NETZRO, an innovative food recovery company, is transforming spent grain from brewing into flour. Spent grain is made up of barley, wheat, oats, and Read More...
Water treatment plant uses expired beer to produce green energy
As restaurants and bars in Australia were forced to close due to the pandemic, millions of liters of unsold beer went stale. But instead of going to waste, some inventories of expired beer are being turned into renewable energy to power a water treatment plant in the state of South Australia. In Read More...
How Guinness is repurposing their beer into fertilizer and biogas
When bars and restaurants across Ireland closed to stop the spread of the pandemic, thousands of kegs of Guinness beer went unconsumed. Fortunately, the company began a reclamation initiative to put the beer to a helpful and unusual use: tree fertilizer. Guinness is apparently great for Read More...
How local breweries improved water quality in this Montana town
Faced with an aging water treatment plant and polluted water from ten nearby breweries disrupting treatment operations, the small town of Havre, Montana came up with a solution to use beer to its advantage. Engineering consultant Coralyn Revis figured out a plan to use the beer water runoff from Read More...
You can adopt the dogs featured on these Motorworks Brewing beer cans
About 3.3 million dogs enter US animal shelters every year. And while some are adopted, many others are left behind. In an effort to change that, a Florida brewery is working to help dogs find their forever homes - by putting their faces on beer cans. Motorworks Brewing has released a special Read More...
Beer giant Carlsberg unveils world’s first paper beer bottle
As the world’s largest consumer-goods companies work to reduce their environmental impact amid pressure from shoppers, Danish beer giant Carlsberg has recently unveiled designs for what it claims is the world’s first paper beer bottle, made with sustainable and recyclable wood fibers. The Read More...
A British power plant is trialing ‘negative emission’ carbon-capture technology
Burning biomass has been seen as a green-ish option for power generation, as it is renewable, although scientists have warned the emissions caused by burning it may outweigh the benefits. Capturing those emissions, however, could solve that problem. In England, the biggest power station fueled by Read More...
Brewing beer from the Chilean desert’s fog
The Atrapaneblina (fog catcher) brewery is an irresistible case of the human inventive spirit thumbing its nose at adversity. In Chile’s Atacama Desert, its crew is able to retrieve enough water from the fog to produce 6,300 gallons of beer per year. The process starts with special nets designed Read More...