Cascade Brewery, from Tasmania, have declared their new Cascade Green as 100% carbon neutral from the picking of hops to the eventual deposit in the recycling bin.
And although the company isn’t claiming the ingredients are organic, they do suggest they are all locally sourced from Tasmania. That the brewery has already reduced its energy usage by 16% and water usage by 30% per unit of production over the last six years. And that Cascade Green will travel to drinker’s lips courtesy of what is said to be lightest weight, highest recycled content glass bottle currently available in Australia. And cartons will ship in 100% recycled cardboard printed with two-colour biodegradable vegetable inks.
The carbon neutral aspect comes via the purchase of Australian Government Greenhouse Friendly certified carbon offsets go to supporting the Hobart Landfill Flare Facility, which extracts methane-rich gas from decomposing organic waste to generate 7,500 MWh of electricity per annum, enough to supply more than 1,100 homes. The project is said to save over 35,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum, equal to taking 9,200 cars of the road each year.
Cascade is owned the Australian brewing powerhouse Fosters. Check it out at Cascade Green.
Of course, if you want to stay local (and not ship from Tasmania) there's Six Point and Brooklyn Brewery...
Source: Treehugger
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