brewed
responsibly.

Green means our future.

Sustainability is a core focus for our employees and brewery. Living next door to beautiful wilderness areas of the Green Mountain State offers a grounding connection to our stewardship. We are a member brewery of the Green Brewery Cohort, to which we are committed to at least a 5% reduction of energy use in 2020.

A few examples of what we already do in our green operations:

• We run a high efficiency biomass wood pellet boiler system, allowing us to avoid use of fossil fuels in our heating process energy.

• Our Sustainability Coordinator on staff manages data collection and identifies areas for improvement, pursuing energy savings, water use reduction, waste reduction, process efficiency, and other environmental initiatives.

• We package our beer in cans which are very light, rather than bottles which are quite heavy. This reduces the carbon footprint of our freight and shipping by a large factor.

• All our lighting in both facilities has been upgraded to LEDs and motion sensor activated lighting.

What we are currently working on:

• We collect data about our energy use, pounds of waste per barrel of beer produced, kilowatt hours per barrel produced, and gallons of water per barrel produced.  

• We use a tool provided by the Brewer’s Association to help track this data and compare it with our region’s industry to benchmark our practices against other breweries in similar areas.

• We are optimizing our chiller usage, ensuring that it only runs when we actually need it to run. This may seem simple, but this issue is rarely addressed in production facilities.

Our Environmental Policy:

We are committed to protecting the environment, the health and safety of our employees, and the community in which we conduct our business.  It is our policy to seek improvements throughout our business operations to lessen our impact on the local and global environment by conserving energy, water, and other natural resources. We strive to reduce waste generation by recycling and purchasing environmentally preferable products, and to reduce our use of toxic materials and production of toxic products and/or byproducts.  We are committed to environmental excellence and pollution prevention through continual improvement and meeting or exceeding all environmental regulatory requirements.