Scotland-based beer company BrewDog has hailed itself “the world’s first carbon-negative international beer business” – meaning that its activities are removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than they are emitting – after shifting all of its breweries and bars to electricity sourced from wind farms.
The beer brand has also pledged to plant a forest in Scotland, and is switching its delivery vehicles to electric. Furthermore, waste grain at its brewing sites is reused to make gas, to complement the facilities’ renewable electricity supply.
The company owns 2,050 acres of land near Loch Lomond in the Scottish Highlands, and the plan is to create both a forest and peatland, with work beginning on this in 2021. Eventually the site will also house a campsite for sustainable holidays and workshops.
Back in 2017, BrewDog launched a beer called Make Earth Great Again, which used ingredients from areas particularly affected by global warming, and had a label featuring then-US president Donald Trump fighting a polar bear, in order to raise awareness of the environmental crisis and to protest the US’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
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Scotland-based beer company BrewDog has hailed itself “the world’s first carbon-negative international beer business” – meaning that its activities are removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than they are emitting – after shifting all of its breweries and bars to electricity sourced from wind farms.
The beer brand has also pledged to plant a forest in Scotland, and is switching its delivery vehicles to electric. Furthermore, waste grain at its brewing sites is reused to make gas, to complement the facilities’ renewable electricity supply.
The company owns 2,050 acres of land near Loch Lomond in the Scottish Highlands, and the plan is to create both a forest and peatland, with work beginning on this in 2021. Eventually the site will also house a campsite for sustainable holidays and workshops.
Back in 2017, BrewDog launched a beer called Make Earth Great Again, which used ingredients from areas particularly affected by global warming, and had a label featuring then-US president Donald Trump fighting a polar bear, in order to raise awareness of the environmental crisis and to protest the US’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.