Meet Plato’s, the brand making crisps from recycled beer grains in Cape Town

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Plato collects around 24 tons of spent grain from Cape-based Darling Brew annually, making 6.5 tons of crisps a month.

• A series of experiments with spent grains, a by-product of malted barley, gave birth to Plato's, a grains crisp brand.
• Its founder Christo Worst wanted to create a snack to enjoy with beer, using an ingredient derived from the beer-making process.
• The chip maker collects around 24 tons of spent grain from Cape-based Darling Brew annually, making 6.5 tons of crisps a month.
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For many, by-products generated from food-making processes may be seen as mere waste, but not for Christo Worst, the brain behind the grain crisps made from tons of spent grain from one of Cape Town’s breweries, sold under the Plato’s brand.

Each year, Plato's collects approximately 24 tons of left-over malted barley grains from Darling Brew, a beer maker in the Western Cape, and turns them into flavoursome snacking crisps.
See the entire process here