Distillery industry is one of the most polluting industries and it is categorized under red category industries. It generates huge volume of dark brown coloured wastewater having high COD and TDS ranging from 100000-200000 mg/L. The treatment of such wastewater is tedious and costly. However, the wastewater from distillery industry is generally treated using a sequential anaerobic treatment followed by Reverse Osmosis (RO). This process is found to be very expensive and at the same time, reject management from RO process is considered as a major concern. The main problem with the distillery wastewater is the brown colour pigment called melanoidin that is very hard to degrade biologically. Alternatively, the usage of distillery wastewater for algal growth will be useful for wastewater treatment and internal energy recovery in the form of algae. In this research work, anaerobically digested distillery wastewater treatment using algal-photobioreactor is investigated. Prior to algal-bioreactor experiments, a coagulation-flocculation pre-treatment was designed and the optimal operating conditions were found out for the effective functioning of the subsequent algal-bioreactor. As a first-step in algal-bioreactor experiments, batch studies were conducted using different algal species namely Chlorella Vulgaris, Chlorella sp., Spirulina sp., Scenedesmus sp., and an algal species isolated from nearby landfill leachate for degradation of melanoidin. Subsequently, the best degrading species was selected for photo-bioreactor experiments and the favourable/maximum growth conditions of algae while feeding anaerobically treated distillery wastewater was found out using a central composite design approach. This seminar presentation will highlight the current trends in distillery wastewater treatment, need for attractive alternative technology for distiller wastewater management and mechanism and fundamentals of the application of algal-photo-bioreactor for distillery wastewater treatment.