Pembrokeshire Microbrewery were awarded Best Sustainable Business in Liverpool this week at the Society of Independent Brewers BeerX conference.
Bluestone Brewing Company, came home with a trophy from this year’s BeerX event. BeerX UK is the UK’s biggest beer and brewing trade event, with a huge industry trade show, regional beer bars and the independent beer and business awards presentations. Hundreds of Brewers and key voices from the industry travel to Liverpool each year to attend and enter the Business Awards.
The Sustainable Business award recognises Breweries who are taking the ethics of environmental awareness and sustainable business operation way beyond the norm, with either a single innovative initiative or a holistic strategy for sustainability.
With compost toilets, wildflower roofs & community hop projects – Bluestone Brewing Company are always trying to keep their footprint as low as possible. Their most ambitious project to date, and the one that caught the judges eye, is a co2 capture project in collaboration with Swansea University. Over the past year, the Brewery have been using Microalgae to reduce their co2 emissions by capturing CO2 naturally produced by the action of yeast in the brewing process and converting it into valuable biomass with the help of Microalgae.
The Brewery are well known locally for some of their sustainable initiatives, but their efforts are now being recognised on a far bigger scale. They are quickly becoming one of the leading sustainable breweries in the UK.
Marketing Director, Emily Hutchinson, said:
“We have been runners up in this category a couple of times, so to be announced as winners on Wednesday was amazing. Our hard work is paying off and to receive recognition on a national stage for our sustainable efforts was a great feeling.
We believe that there is a social responsibility, on all businesses, to reduce their footprints for the benefit of everybody. We want to ensure that our business has a positive impact on the welfare of the next generation. We may be a small business in the grand scheme of things, but we hope that our way of working may influence others and that we can have a big impact on our local community and the wider brewing community!”
