An Australian brewer is bringing new meaning to the phrase “waste not, want not” by converting food that otherwise have been thrown away into delicious craft beer.
Concerned by the 7.6 million tonnes of food that goes to landfill every year – creating destructive methane emissions – Canberra’s Capital Brewing Co. resolved to work with local producers to repurpose fruit into their beer-making process.
Up to 25 per cent of fruit and veg never leaves farms because it is deemed not well enough shaped for supermarket shelves, leading to an oversupply of produce, so Capital took the opportunity of the recent Great Australian Beer Spectapular (GABS) in Sydney to trial a process that it now hopes to upscale for the future.
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