Brixton Brewery Impact Report 2023

Making Green Mainstream

In honour of Earth Day 2024, we’ve released our first Impact Report on sustainability, workplace and community impacts. Technically it covers monitoring and reporting on 2023 only, but because it’s our first report, we also took a longer look at what we’ve achieved since the beginning, such as our early switch from bottles to cans, our long-term partnerships and community support in arts and culture, and our commitment to being a London Living Wage workplace.

Our ethos as a business has been to always be looking for ways to do better, but this was our first systematic effort to formally measure our impact, especially on the environment and carbon footprint. The first thing we did was set up an all-team, brewery-wide Sustainability Action Network to help oversee the process of improving and make sure that everyone in the brewery is committed to improvements and efficiencies. We engaged Zevero, an independent carbon accounting consultancy to help us measure and verify our impact and look for ways to improve. We measured our impact from 2022 to provide a baseline year. Some of the achievements the report outlines include:

- A 16% reduction in purchased CO2

- A 10.6% reduction in overall energy intensity use

- A 3.6% reduction in water use intensity

- A plastic-free webshop

We’re proud to be going in the right direction, and will continue to look for ways to improve as we grow. Some of the reasons for our improvements include:

- Installing a CO2 recovery and re-use unit, affectionately known as Steve, which collects and re-circulates carbon in the brewing and packaging process

- Improvements in insulation

- Behaviour changes because of better awareness in the team and the work of the Sustainability Action Network

These highlights focus on environmental impact, but the full report also details all our partnerships, campaigns and local support as part of our Community Impact, and our efforts to be a great place to work for our Team.

If you want to know more about the impact of your pint, you can check out the full report here Brixton Brewery Impact Report 2023.

“AS WE GROW, WE’RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO DO BETTER IN EVERYTHING WE DO, FROM OUR WORK ENVIRONMENT TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.” – Jez Galaun, MD & Co-Founder