Welsh craft brewer Drop Bear Beer Co. has simply grow to be the world’s first licensed carbon impartial alcohol-free brewer, bolstering the enterprise’ dedication to combatting local weather change.
From day one, the burgeoning brewer has taken measures to cut back its carbon footprint, and it’s now celebrating its distinctive place throughout the brewing sector.
Based on the Paris Settlement, calculating, lowering and offsetting CO2 emissions are essential steps in tackling local weather change.
Drop Bear’s official designation as carbon impartial follows intensive work by the award-winning enterprise to attain carbon neutrality for the corporate and its beers.
This has been achieved by compensating for CO2 emissions by way of supporting worldwide, licensed carbon offset initiatives facilitated by ClimatePartner. An instance is a clear wind power undertaking in north east Brazil to implement and function 14 wind energy crops with varied social advantages for Brazilian communities.
Since its formation in Swansea in 2019, the corporate’s founders – Joelle Drummond and Sarah McNena – have striven to construct a enterprise with sustainability and local weather change consciousness as its bedrock, that means shoppers not have to compromise on high quality or values.
From the outset, the pair’s sturdy moral values and dedication to the atmosphere and local weather change have been on the coronary heart of their enterprise ethos whereas constructing a serious nationwide and worldwide award-winning alcohol-free craft beer model.
The announcement of the corporate’s carbon impartial standing comes sizzling on the heels of Drop Bear being named ‘Inexperienced Begin Up of the 12 months’ on the Wales Begin Up Awards 2022. On the Awards, which had been held final week, Drop Bear was additionally named total ‘Wales Begin Up of the 12 months’, together with ‘Swansea Bay Begin Up of the 12 months’, and ‘Younger Entrepreneur of the 12 months’.
Joelle mentioned,
“Drop Bear takes its duty to the atmosphere very critically and attaining carbon neutrality is the most recent milestone in direction of which we’ve been working for years. This third get together accreditation additionally reassures clients that we don’t simply discuss the discuss, we stroll the stroll. Now comes the time for actual innovation as we work to cut back our carbon footprint at manufacturing stage and scale back reliance on carbon offsetting.”
Drop Bear’s actions will proceed to be monitored by ClimatePartner, with annual Company Carbon Footprint (CCF) and Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) studies on the enterprise’ targets.
On a mission to brew ‘one of the best 0.5% ABV craft beers and construct a greater world through which to drink them’, Drop Bear’s carbon neutrality comes eight months after turning into Wales’ first B Company®️ brewery.
A Residing Wage firm, Drop Bear’s B Corp™️ designation has put it amongst an elite group of environmentally, ethically, and socially targeted UK foods and drinks companies.
The corporate’s environmental endeavours and entrepreneurship had been additionally recognised ultimately month’s Wales Enterprise Awards 2022. Drop Bear acquired the ‘Inexperienced Enterprise of the 12 months’ award on the occasion, and Joelle was named ‘Younger Entrepreneur of the 12 months’.
Earlier this yr, Drop Bear introduced its plan to construct a bespoke brewery on a farm close to Abergavenny. If the corporate’s constructing plans are realised, then Monmouthshire will grow to be residence to the world’s first carbon impartial alcohol-free brewery.
Joelle mentioned,
“Our proposed brewery in Abergavenny is vital for this subsequent, thrilling stage of our sustainability journey as we take issues into our personal arms. The character of this web site signifies that we might have the ability to implement modern applied sciences to cut back power use, improve efficiencies, scale back waste, scale back meals miles, derive energy from on-site photo voltaic panels, and discover closed loop methods and so forth.
“Now that we now have accomplished our analyses, we all know the place probably the most impactful modifications could be made and albeit we are able to’t wait to get caught in and proceed to paved the way for ‘inexperienced’ drinks manufacturing in Wales.”
Drop Bear’s vary appeals to all kinds of shoppers worldwide and prides itself on creating accessible beer for everybody, making certain their beers are vegan pleasant, gluten-free, and low calorie, all while creating award-winning flavours.
Obtainable by way of a rising vary of stockists, the corporate not too long ago achieved an inventory to produce Tesco shops in Wales. On the identical time, Drop Bear has continued to develop its worldwide buyer base with the addition of retailers in Hong Kong and Finland.
