Green Beer, Green Brewing

Multinational brewing giant AB InBev and GE are teaming up to find ways of increasing energy efficiency, conserving water and reducing CO2 emissions at the brewer’s facilities throughout China. The partnership with GE will help AB InBev realize its goal of reducing CO2 emissions by some 100,000 tons per year, along with making additional significant cuts in water and energy consumption.

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America’s craft beer market has grown rapidly in recent years, seemingly outpaced only by its niche organic segment, thanks in part to growing consumer fears about genetically modified foods. While a few of the largest regional breweries currently enjoy widespread distribution, craft brewing remains fundamentally an industry devoted to its local followers, and the results are undeniable.

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In honor of St. Patricks Day, we’re revisiting one of our most popular series of all time on Sustainability in the Brewing Industry. Triple Pundit has been investigating what makes the world’s biggest and smallest companies sustainable for over five years. We’re not ashamed to admit that we often end a long day with a [...]

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All staff performance appraisals include a review of individual commitment to the company’s green initiatives, inspiring individual ownership for reducing the collective footprint.

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By Kyle Cassidy This piece originally appeared in Wend Magazine and is excerpted here with permission. As human ethnology has evolved over time, so has our beer. Now, in the era of green, a culture of specialized brewers has emerged who contend that the recipe for a better brew is incomplete without a dash of [...]

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Sustainability at Bell’s Brewery.

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Alaskan Brewing co: Rural Alaska isn’t exactly where you’d expect to find a test market for new technology, but brewing in Alaska’s remote location creates new challenges which can make sustainable practices become more cost effective, compared to living somewhere else.

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Bison Brewing: the biggest lifecycle impact of craft beer is the bottle. As consumers, we all could do better at glass recycling, which is poor nationally. We are getting better, but could to a lot further.

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Sustainability at Wild Rose Brewery – Wild Rose Brewery Charity Pints Program – every month we make a contribution back to the community through our in house charity pint program.
We use locally sourced ingredients whenever possible, including locally produced specialty malts

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Squatters Pub Brewery: Our brewery is housed in our flagship full service, 450 seat restaurant; therefore we have invested most of our efforts to date into the restaurant side of our model.

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Sustainability is what Eel River Brewing Company is all about – not only are all of our beers organic, but we also follow sustainable practices

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Sustainability at Lakefront Brewery: Our brewery donates all our spent mash to Growing Power; they compost it and turn it into organic fertilizer. Wind power makes up 5% of our total energy use.

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We received a “Climate Champion” award by the Portland Office of Sustainability and Development. We also have the “Recycle at Work” certification, the “Portland Composts” certification, and a Blue Sky wind power certification.

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Kona Brewing Company: In 2009 both our Hawaii pubs became Certified Green Restaurants® by the Green Restaurant Association. The Kailua-Kona brewery produces Hawaii’s first and only certified organic beer, Oceanic Organic Saison. This summer we completed a 228 kW solar generating system which allows nearly 60 percent offset of our current electricity usage.

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Ft. George Brewing: Sustainability is becoming a buzzword like green or community that makes people feel good, but is poorly defined. My understanding of the concept would include efforts to minimize our ecological footprint, promote positive economic behavior and support local or at least regional self-sufficiency.

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Sustainability at Anderson Valley Brewery: We derive about 50% of our electrical power from the sun. We have solar panels across the roof of our brewery. These solar panels not only generate power for the brewery but they help to reduce our cooling load in the summer.

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The Brooklyn Brewery is the first New York City company to use 100% wind-generated electricity; we recycle all our paper, plastic, and bottles; we recycle our spent grain, sending it to a facility in NJ that turns it into pig feed, and to the Queens County Farm Museum that feeds it to their chickens and pigs and also uses it as compost; we recycle hot water from the brewhouse.

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New Planet Beer: Although New Planet beer is only sold in Colorado right now, hopefully it will soon be available nationwide. So read your labels carefully. While you are relaxing and enjoying a smooth brew, you can feel better knowing your drink didn’t harm the environment and you can even support a cause.

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Full Sail: When we laid out the new brewery in 1994, we recycled an old building in Hood River as opposed to making a “greenfield brewery.” We included features that would help our brewery last for the long term, like a full waste water treatment plant, efficient lighting, a high-efficiency boiler and a high efficiency glycol chiller.

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New Belgium: Our brewery is actually not sustainable in the sense that we consume more resources than we are able to replenish, but we are working hard to become more sustainable every day. For most companies to reach true sustainability, however, large shifts would have to occur in this country’s infrastructure

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Grossman covered many of these activities in his talk, but well aware of the trendiness of sustainability in business these days, he repeatedly downplayed their accomplishments. “Let’s face it,” he said, “we’re not ever going to get to perfect.” He acknowledged that at the end of the day, his business consumes a lot of water and energy, in making bottles and transport, so he doesn’t believe his business will ever be capable of truly “going green.”

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A recent report of the Water Futures Partnership, a collaboration between the SABMiller brewing company and the WWF, studies the water footprint at SABMiller’s operations and in river habitats in four countries: Peru, Tanzania, Ukraine and South Africa. Although, operations vary considerably from country to country, in each case at least 89% of the total water usage goes to the cultivation of ingredients such as hops and barley.

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MillerCoors, the second largest brewer in the United States that has a portfolio of over 60 brands, is making more changes in its operations as the company and its competitors grow aware of the various sustainability issues involved with beer production. The company recently released its 2010 Sustainability Report, discussing its accomplishments while outlining future goals related to the company’s labor, environmental, and social impacts.

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Triple Pundit has been investigating what makes the world’s biggest and smallest companies sustainable for over five years. We’re not ashamed to admit that we often end a long day with a cold one. Beer has been a catalyst in our discussions and networking, not to mention something we enjoy in our time off. Now, we’re [...]

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