Research to explore textile materials from brewing waste

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The University of A Coruña has launched a project with MIT and Inditex to explore turning hop waste from brewing into fibres and natural dyes for sustainable textiles.

The main material left over after brewing beer is spent grain, along with smaller amounts of spent hops and residual yeast

A Coruña – A new research project to turn brewing waste into bio-based textile materials has been announced by the Information and Communications Technologies Research Center (CITIC) of the University of A Coruña.

CITIC says the processing of hops for brewing beer generates a “significant” amount of plant waste that, for the most part, is unused.

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