As a
brewery no-one can pretend that what we do is particularly serious or even that
important. We can’t claim to be of great social and political importance, we
can’t even claim to be absolutely vital. We produce a product that is enjoyable
and lubricates the social world.
What we can and do is try to give back a little
to help those less fortunate than ourselves and our customers. We can also work very hard to reduce our
carbon footprint and make ourselves as environmentally friendly as possible. We
do these things in many ways:-
- We give an automatic discount
of 10% off our normal pricing to any charity that we feel is worthwhile.
(That’s most of them.)
- In association with Severn Sound
Radio ( now Heart 102.4 ) we produce a beer, around Christmas time, that goes on sale in
Gloucestershire, in support of the ‘
- We lend support to the Young
Enterprise Scheme (through
- Wherever possible we source our
ingredients locally, at present that’s over 90% of all materials we use.
- Any ‘waste products’ that we
produce are actually not waste at all……..
- The spent malt grain that is
left after the brewing process is picked up by local farmers and used as feed stuff for
livestock.
- The spent hops are bagged up and
left for pick up by local gardeners, (spent hops make a wonderful mulch
for the allotment).
- We will provide outside bars
for charity events, supporting them by contributing an agreed slice of our
turnover.
- We are constantly working on reducing energy consumption and looking at ways to recycle the energy we do use.
- As members of the Gloucestershire Craft Brewers we work with seven other similar local
breweries to share ideas and practical help so that we may all improve our
products, working methods and at the same time promote Gloucestershire
beers thus reducing ‘Beer Miles’.