Today, we announce the next phase of our algae project, where we examine how micro-algae can reduce methane emissions in livestock.

Together with the talented scientists at UTS Climate Change Cluster, and now Meat and Livestock Australia, we’re aiming to create a more sustainable future for both brewing and livestock industries, and it’s all thanks to algae.

We currently send our spent grain (another by-product of our beer-making process) to farms around Australia as cattle feed — so by adding algae to the spent grain, it’ll help improve their diet and reduce their methane burps and farts.

In 2019, we installed 2 x 400L bioreactors of micro-algae at our brewery to capture Co2 (a by-product of the brewing process), and release oxygen.

The end goal being that Co2 from the global brewing industry can be captured to help grow large quantities of oxygen-releasing microalgae, to be turned into feed that makes livestock farming a more sustainable practice.

With the livestock industry contributing 14% of total global Co2 emissions, and beer consumption remaining steady amongst Aussie adults, there’s never been a better time for our Algae Project, and we’re hoping it can help start to make a difference on a larger scale.

We just bloody hope one day we can say “Drink beer, save the world.”

Aussie filmmakers Projucer are helping us tell the story with this documentary.