It used to be that spent brewers’ grain was often fed directly to the animals. But, now there’s an in-between. A new company called EverGrain Ingredients, and backed by Anheuser-Busch InBev, takes the spent/saved barley grain from breweries and turns it into useful protein and fiber ingredients for food and beverage products. Once EverGrain is finished with the spent grain, the remainder is processed for animal nutrition—so no waste.
The R&D team at EverGrain, along with Founder and CEO Greg Belt, devised the system that transforms what would have been strictly animal feed into healthful ingredients. This process in optimizing and repurposing the used barley has consumed five years of rigorous R&D. And Belt is no stranger to sustainability, having spent nearly nine years at Anheuser-Busch InBev in sustainability and innovation. He also has prior experience at Emerson in procurement and supply chain.