Kerry Releases Online Brewing Sustainability Calculator

These solutions can appeal to brewers seeking to enhance their sustainability efforts.
These solutions can appeal to brewers seeking to enhance their sustainability efforts.

Kerry has launched a sustainability calculator that enables brewers to analyze the potentially significant benefits of using sustainable brewing processing aids and enzymes.

Related: Kerry Launches Sustainability Calculator for Dry Beverages

The purpose of the tool is to allow people involved in the brewing industry to quickly see what potential cost savings and environmental sustainability gains could be delivered to its unique brewery situations.

The sustainability calculator focuses on three main aspects of the brewing process: raw materials, brewing operations and waste management.

The calculator process begins by asking for the preferred measurement in barrels or hectoliters, and then the brewery size (in total volume of output per annum). From there, respondents are asked to check boxes regarding five key objectives that will help to analyze each brewery’s unique situation.

Each of these deal with brewing solutions that don’t require a capex budget to implement, making them highly accessible solutions. Respondents are asked which of these are of interest to their brewery, for example:

  • Increase extract yields, reduce viscosity and increase levels of raw/unmalted adjuncts.

  • Increase trub and cold break compaction, produce clearer worts and achieve longer beer filtration cycles.

  • Increase fermenter capacity, improve hop utilization and reduce tank cleaning requirements.

  • Improve yeast sedimentation and beer clarification to reduce maturation times and improve beer filtration and long-term beer stability.

  • Improve yeast viability and vitality in high-adjunct/low-nitrogen brews and optimize fermentation/maturation times.

The sustainability calculator then quantifies the potential positive impacts of using Kerry’s brewing solutions.

Applying all five solutions can deliver significant cumulative results. These results, verified by a third-party sustainability technical analysis, can deliver up to 19% energy use reductions, CO2 emissions reductions of 41%, and €1.70/hl ($2.35/bbl) cost savings.

Eoin Lalor, global R&D director for alcoholic beverages at Kerry, commented, “While progress toward sustainability in every brewery has its own unique trajectory, there are impressive possibilities available to help all breweries reduce environmental and brewing costs. With consumers increasingly seeking out purpose-driven brands that are environmentally focused—almost 90% of global consumers now expect companies to invest in sustainability efforts—the rewards can be high. The COVID-19 pandemic, if anything, has accelerated consumer interest in sustainability, opening up opportunities for brewers to take a progressive position on this important topic.”

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