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Meeting your sustainability goals
Guided by the targets outlined by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, brewers are looking to lessen their environmental impact in various ways, e.g. by cutting back on water and energy usage, as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and land use.
Guided by the targets outlined by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, brewers are looking to lessen their environmental impact in various ways, e.g. by cutting back on water and energy usage, as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and land use.
At IFF, sustainability isn’t just a responsible approach. It's innovation itself.
That’s why we are constantly creating processes and tools to minimize and measure carbon footprint and to create products from waste streams. From sourcing ingredients to process efficiency and waste upcycling, we’re ahead of the game. Our application of enzyme technology is a genuine game-changer, and fast becoming an essential tool to drive sustainability metrics.
Enzyme solutions for sustainable brewing
Whether brewers choose to produce beer with barley, rice, sorghum, maize or other ingredients, our IFF range of enzymes serves to fill the enzyme gap in alternative raw materials and unlock them for optimal brewing results.
Brewing for Sustainability
Many leading industrial breweries are looking to introduce sustainable solutions into the brewing process. Download this infographic to see all the ways IFF Master Brewers and the portfolio of brewing enzymes can help brewers lessen their environmental impact in various ways - from cutting back on water and energy usage to w reducing greenhouse gas emissions and land use.
Responding to the Challenge
Brewers are responding to the challenge and objectives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with clean energy-powered breweries, water and energy-saving programs, leveraging the raw materials mix and engaging with the local communities.
Looking at the production of two batches of beer in a a brewery in West Africa– the first using conventional brewing, with 100% malted barley, and the second skipping the malting phase, adding enzymes instead.The study shows that by using the enzymes instead of malting the barley, brewers can:
- Cut energy use by 48%
- Reduce CO2 emissions by 34%
- Use 50% less water
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12 Responsible consumption and production
13 Climate action
Calculate your energy savings
The mashing Energy Simulation Calculator, result of a collaboration between Briggs of Burton and IFF, is calculating savings obtained when changing raw materials (grist’s) and mashing regimes. Some mashing regimes and raw material combinations are sometimes only possible when using specific IFF solutions and equipment configurations while other only need supplements of enzymes to get a great result and ensure you maximize efficiency, ensure consistency and protect the quality of every brew you make.
The Model
Briggs of Burton and IFF have collaborated to give you the best possible tangible inputs – both on sustainability and savings perspectives. The results are visualised in a Sankey Diagram with potential savings in heating energy, water usage, and carbon equivalent identified. By using the model the changes to mashing profiles are compared, and the resulting energy consumption data and cost are explained.
Explore the two case studies and please contact us for how to Brew Better and more sustainably.
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Making brewing in Africa more consistent, efficient, and sustainable
This brewing enzyme improves the production process of sorghum based brewing while also strengthening the Ugandan agrarian economy.
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