Brick Lane Brewing Co Pty Ltd Sustainability Profile

What do our labels mean?

Brick Lane Brewing Co Pty Ltd is a Melbourne-based brewery and certified B Corporation. Its sustainability position centres on reducing the environmental footprint of brewing through energy and water efficiency, waste diversion, recyclable packaging, and investment in solar power and lower-emission production processes. The company says its brewery was designed with sustainability and efficiency at its core, and it has published a Sustainability Update alongside its B Corp certification. Brick Lane has also stated objectives to achieve carbon-free operations by 2025, True Zero beer by 2025, and to move toward certified carbon neutral status. It also highlights inclusivity, diversity, and community engagement as part of its broader approach.

About Brick Lane Brewing Co Pty Ltd

Status
Unverified

Website
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Employees
25 - 100

Country
Australia

Brick Lane Brewing Co Pty Ltd Sustainability Actions

B Corp certification achieved

Brick Lane Brewing has recently become B Corp certified, making it the largest of its kind in the country to do so. B Corp Certification is a designation made by the US-based not-for-profit B Lab to applicant organisations that can demonstrate high standards of positive social and environmental impact.

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Published Sustainability Update

To coincide with this announcement Brick Lane has published its Sustainability Update, which details the innovations and processes the company has put in place to achieve this certification, and the investments it is making to achieve its objective of True Zero beer by 2025.

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Installed CO2 vaporiser

Installation of Australia’s first CO2 vaporiser allowing recovery and conversion of liquid CO2 to gas used in the brewing process, saving 32 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year.

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Diverted spent grain from landfill

Directing 99.3% of spent grain – the largest waste product in brewing – to farmers in the Dandenong area for use as animal feed, rather than landfill.

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Started 375kW solar project

Commencing installation of a 375kW solar project at our Dandenong brewery, the largest of any independent brewer in Australia. The system will supply 27% of Brick Lane’ energy requirements and save 374 tonnes of annual CO2 emissions.

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Brick Lane Brewing Co Pty Ltd Sustainability Commitments

2023

Certified carbon neutral

By the end of 2023, Brick Lane expects to be using 100% renewable electricity, to have reduced fugitive CO2 emissions by 50% and to be certified carbon neutral.

2025

True Zero beer

Brick Lane is making investments to achieve its objective of True Zero beer by 2025.

2025

Carbon-free operations

Becoming a B Corp is an important milestone in our business strategy, since being founded in 2018, to drive leadership in sustainable beer production among independent brewers in Australia, and to make our operations carbon-free by 2025.