This is essentially about reusing material that is often the waste from another process.
We won awards for our Hardtack beer when it first came out, using some of Auld’s the Bakers returned morning rolls to make a lovely low alcohol beer with 2% alcohol.
However, that was too much for the no alcohol brigade and not enough for the traditional beer drinkers! So we worked on Roller, again using morning rolls that would have just gone to landfill otherwise and again that proved a big hit when we had it available in our pub.
One of our main waste products is the spent grain from the brewing process, which we currently give to local farmers as animal feed as it retains a lot of protein. However we have successfully trialled making a grain bar using this and are hoping to bring that forward for sale in the pub this Spring.
We are also working on how to reuse the fruit needed to make our Bardowie Pink and Bardowie Zest gin. Bardowie Pink is made using raspberries which come out of the process white, and we use orange peel in the Bardowie Zest. This gin soaked treasure can be used in a variety of ways and we are currently experimenting with some of our home baking, as well as preserves and chutneys. We will let you know when these are available for sale.