Beer
Spent grain from craft brewing — malt's warm character, kept long after the beer is gone.
About this material
Brewing is thirsty work for the planet. Worldwide, beer production leaves behind an estimated 39 million tonnes of spent grain every year — the malted barley husks that have given their sugars to the brew. Almost all of it is downcycled into low-value animal feed.
Highsociety Studio collects this residue from South Tyrolean breweries and asks more of it. Hand-shaped into a material additive, the grain's warmth is preserved in something lasting, rather than eaten and forgotten within days.
What remains is a surface with a soft, malt-toned character — an honest trace of the brewing process, carried into the life of a finished object.
Properties
Spent grain — barley and hops left over from beer brewing — collected from local breweries and shaped by hand. Warm, malt-toned surface.
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