a brewer makes beer from unsold bread

In Mittelhausbergen (Bas-Rhin), when he goes to a bakery, Christophe Mouhot comes to buy the bread from the day before. Unsold kilos of bread are given away free of charge. “Making beer with our unsold bread, (…) I find it great to be able to enjoy the aromas that we have spent hours and days developing”says José Arroyo, a baker. Once the collection is over, Christophe goes home where he has set up his micro-brewery.

Depending on the unsold items collected, Christophe will decide which beer to make. “The special breads will go in an amber beer (…) and all that is white bread, those will go in a blond beer”he explains. Bread starch is going to be used in the beer brewing system. The brewer would like to push recycling even further by transforming into flour what remains after brewing beer.
Journalist Valerie Hurtelalso talks about other forms of recycling such as that of a cosmetics brand that recover the marc of the Parisian café owners to make a scrub. Recycling also makes it possible to build houses in the image of an architect near Toulouse who uses end-of-life containers to make houses.