Will breweries' spent grain replace your nuggets?

As beer consumption in Germany falls, some breweries are seeking to diversify their product range.

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00:00Once the beer has been drained, a brown mushy mass lies at the bottom of the brewing kettle.

00:07It's the residue from the malt, spent grain.

00:10The Sturtepecker brewery on the Baltic Sea coast plans to use it to create vegan meat substitutes.

00:16The brewer's son has founded Eat Beer for this purpose, aiming to establish a second business venture.

00:23It means that with one corn malt that we use, we can do two products.

00:29That means the material production remains almost identical and suddenly a double value for the brewery industry.

00:35But spent grain alone isn't enough to produce meat substitutes.

00:39An oyster mushroom is added, which feeds on the spent grain.

00:43This process takes place in these vats.

00:46The end result is a slurry of high-quality proteins.

00:49The idea is to create a base for vegan nuggets, meatballs or sausages.

00:54The brewers developed the pilot plant themselves.

00:57The long-term goal is to mass produce it and sell it to other breweries.

01:02We have great interest in the market.

01:04We have many breweries, especially from the free breweries.

01:08It's the middle-stands breweries from the German space,

01:11who come to us, who are interested in us.

01:13They say, please take us on your journey.

01:16We want to be here.

01:18For now, Eat Beer is still waiting for approval from the European Union.

01:22Only then can the vegan meat substitutes be sold.

01:25Nevertheless, they already want to expand the pilot plant for industrial-scale production.

01:30This is the last half-scale production.

01:32We have to watch the pilot plant.

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01:38You must tell them to be a product.

01:39We are here to take aajabearable,

01:40and expand the top-scale production.

01:42Three-scale production.