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The craft brewing industry continues to grow, with brewpubs, microbreweries, and independent taprooms thriving and attracting dedicated customers. For craft breweries, incorporating sustainability can be a valuable strategy to ensure a successful and enduring future.

A company’s sustainability is becoming a major purchasing decision, especially among younger adults. Harvard Business Review recently found that Millennials were 27% more likely than older generations to buy a product when they believed a company cared about its impact on the earth and its people.

How can your brewery implement measures to become more sustainable? Follow the tips below.

1. Conserve and Recycle Water

Everything from filling up kegs or barrels to cleaning used equipment requires water. Besides being unsustainable, wasting lots of water means facing expensive monthly water bills. Fortunately, utilizing water conservation and recycling methods can resolve excess water usage.

Some craft breweries reduce how much water they use by installing or updating their wastewater treatment systems. This somewhat simple but effective change reuses wastewater created during brewing-related processes.

Breweries using wastewater more efficiently have less dependency on fresh water. Buying water-efficient cleaning and irrigation equipment can also significantly reduce water usage for breweries.

2. Lower Energy Usage

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An effective way to lower energy consumption is by having your brewery use renewable energy. Utilizing wind energy is an effective way to become a more sustainable business. However, this type of energy isn’t typically available unless you’re near a wind power station.

Many craft breweries emphasizing sustainability increase their reliance on solar energy. After a solar panel installation, the sun’s rays shine down on these panels. Then, the business using these panels can rely on some or all of its energy needs by using solar power.

Your brewery can also begin making easier-to-implement changes on a smaller scale through an energy audit. Energy audits measure how a business uses energy, identifying where to make changes to reduce its overall electricity usage.

3. Implement Sustainable Shipping Methods

So far, you’ve learned about implementable sustainability methods to use during the brewing process. But what can your business do to be sustainable after products leave your warehouses? Focus on sustainable shipping.

There are nearly endless ways to become more sustainable through shipping changes. Your brand can send each order in a beer can shipper made from recyclable materials. Another option is to use sustainable materials as a medium for keeping a package’s contents safe.

4. Change What Happens to Brewing Waste

There’s no way to brew beer and other beverages without creating brewing-related waste. This situation leaves breweries dealing with a near-constant stream of seemingly useless grains from the brewing process. Fortunately, spent grains have many uses.

These grains remain edible while retaining most of their nutrients. Because of that, some craft breweries donate used grains to local farmers to use as compost or animal feed.

Brew a Greener Future

Staying successful in the brewing industry takes time and effort, but it can pay off in several ways. Sustainable companies often build and maintain strong relationships within nearby communities. Sustainable business practices may also lower your company’s operating expenses or help it qualify for tax-related incentives.

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Big, wonderful, fantastic news is coming to The Beer Thrillers! Excited to finally announce that we have our own home brewing section soon to start up. AJ Brechbiel is an amazing home brewer who along with a buddy (sometimes buddies) brew under the name ‘Default Brewing’. You can check their Facebook page here: Default Brewing.

AJ comes with an immense amount of experience and knowledge about home brewing and beer and the industry and cannot wait to further that knowledge here on the blog. He is looking forward to imparting his wisdom onto all of you.

So for those of you who are home brewers, or into home brewing, or just want to learn or read up about home brewing or the brewing process, stay tuned for all of AJ’s future posts. They will definitely be ones you won’t want to miss. I know I am excited to have him onboard and to see The Beer Thrillers expand and grow and our team of dedicated writers getting bigger and better and larger.

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We are also still currently listed as #11 on FeedSpot’s Top 100 Beer Blogs. You can see a full ranking of their top blogs here, and see that we’ve been at #11 for quite a while nice. Would be amazing to crack the Top 10 by year’s end!

We were recently asked by Matt, owner / brewer for Mellow Mink to meet with him for a behind the scenes look at a brewday and to try out some of their newest samplings. That was in the works for today, but it has gotten pushed back to December (most likely either December 5th or December 12th). This is a wonderful opportunity and we can’t wait for it. So please check in with us to see that great article once its published.

My (B. Kline) version of NaNoWriMo is still going strong. Though this is a bit of a ‘cheat article / blog post today, I’m still counting it. (I’m above using emojis in my post, but just imagine me sticking my tongue out at you right now.) This marks the 21st day of November, and the 21st day of blog posts (at least one per day). Granted I got some of them in and published just in the nick of time (last night’s got published at 11:58PM EST), but I have still maintained my record of one per day.

I am going to be going back through and combing the beer and brewery reviews to make sure they are consistent with future styling. I am going to be adding a category for ‘style’, and that will make it easier if you want to see a STOUT review or a IPA review or a PILSNER review. You can scroll down to the Category: Style and select STOUT or SOUR or what have you, and be able to see all of our reviews of that style of beer. I will be doing the same with locations and maintaining a better listing for all of that going forward. I am also going to go back through and work on some of the backlinking to make navigating around the blog a bit easier and more fun.

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