Sustainability profile: Bluestone Brewing Co
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Winter 2021 | SIBA Independent Brewer | www.siba.co.uk
In the very first of our new Sustainability Profiles, which will be running in Independent Brewer as a regular feature from now on, we caught up with Emily Hutchinson from Bluestone Brewing Co in Pembrokeshire, a brewery which has been leading the way for some time on the issue of sustainability. Not only was Bluestone the first brewery in the world to achieve Green Key accreditation back in 2018 for its work to make the whole business more sustainable, but it hasn’t stopped there, winning a Sustainable Tourism award and currently working towards becoming B-Corp certified. The whole ethos of the brewery is built around being kind to the planet, and Caroline Nodder from Independent Brewer spoke to Emily to find out more about this sustainable strategy, as well as a ground-breaking new project involving microalgae…