A BREWERY managed to stop beer wastage and instead use it to create energy over lockdown. Hall and Woodhouse, which owns many pubs across Sussex, has now found a sustainable solution for unsold beer. Over the last year huge amounts of beer have been returned to breweries, thrown away or spoiled due to the pubs being forced to shut. The brewery managed to use the returned beer and convert it into green electricity by using the biogas it creates. This was done by using their wastewater treatment plant. The amount of energy created from the beer could power 17,000 homes for a day – or 46 homes for a whole year.
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While pubs were closed across the UK, thousands of litres of beer which had already been brewed went past its expiry date - meaning that in many instances, it was simply poured away. But independent regional brewer, Hall & Woodhouse, found a more sustainable solution for what do with the unsold beer. Thanks to the brewery s green energy focus, the returned products helped create enough electricity to power nearly 17,000 average homes for a day - or around 46 homes for one whole year.
Toby Heasman, Hall & Woodhouse Head Brewer, said: Although lockdown meant that many of our pubs had to return unsold beer back to the brewery, the silver lining has been that none of this has gone to waste. Thanks to our wastewater treatment plant, all of the returned beer has been used to generate green electricity.
While pubs were closed across the UK, thousands of litres of beer which had already been brewed went past its expiry date – meaning that in many instances, it was simply poured away. But independent regional brewer, Hall & Woodhouse, found a more sustainable solution for what do with the unsold beer. Thanks to the brewery’s green energy focus, the returned products helped create enough electricity to power nearly 17,000 average homes for a day - or around 46 homes for one whole year. Toby Heasman, Hall & Woodhouse Head Brewer, said: “Although lockdown meant that many of our pubs had to return unsold beer back to the brewery, the silver lining has been that none of this has gone to waste. Thanks to our wastewater treatment plant, all of the returned beer has been used to generate green electricity.”
But Hall & Woodhouse brewery found a more sustainable solution for what do with the unsold beer.
Thanks to the brewery’s green energy focus, the returned products helped create enough electricity to power nearly 17,000 average homes for a day - or around 46 homes for one whole year.
Hall & Woodhouse head brewer Toby Heasman said: Although lockdown meant that many of our pubs had to return unsold beer back to the brewery, the silver lining has been that none of this has gone to waste. Thanks to our wastewater treatment plant, all of the returned beer has been used to generate green electricity.