The Bluntrock Journal — Sustainability

One of the most important, and often overlooked, parts of brewing is what happens to our spent grain. Instead of becoming waste, it begins a second life just over the hedge from the brewery, helping to regenerate soils of our surrounding fields and to support food production right here in our little pocket of Cornwall.

How we recycle our used Malt Bags with Suez Cornwall Like many small brewers, we use bag malt as we don’t have space for malt silos. This leaves us with a problem, malt bags.  While Malsters have made great strides to ensure that their malt bags are produced responsibly, being made of 100% recyclable materials, you can’t just put them in your mixed recycling as the malt dust inside means they can’t be recycled in the usual way. The easy route is to put them into your general waste which is bueno.  As part of our commitment to sustainable development,...