Funded project – Converting brewers spent grain byproduct to food products

Last updated: 30 August 2023
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Project lead: Peakstone Global Pty Ltd
Project partners: Grainstone Pty Ltd and a network of brewers, food manufacturers and bakeries.
Status: In progress
Funding source: Circular Economy Innovation Fund
Funding amount: $450,000
Co-contribution: $815,000

Deploying a state-of-the-art pilot facility to process waste brewers spent grain into speciality food ingredients suitable for human consumption.

Victoria Food Manufacturing Food waste

Background

More than seventy thousand tonnes of wet brewers spent grain waste is produced in Victoria each year.

This project will develop an advanced manufacturing state-of-the-art pilot facility and work with brewers and food manufacturers to process waste brewers spent grain into speciality food ingredients suitable for human consumption. The facility will be the first of its kind in Australia.

The facility will start by manufacturing a premium speciality flour, an upcycled ingredient that has several health and sustainability advantages including high levels of protein, prebiotic dietary fibre, and micronutrients, such as iron, zinc and magnesium.

Objectives

Make new products from food waste (for example, plant-based textiles, vitamin supplements, ingredients and meals, and animal feed).

Matthew Kronborg, founding director of Grainstone, with the company's specialty flour made from the barley used in beer.

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