We want to be a small company that has an environmental strategy that matters. We took one step forward to reduce our carbon footprint and bought 3,5 hectares of forest to compensate carbon dioxide emissions from the brewery.
The main idea in the approach is to use brewery’s own forest to compensate carbon dioxide emissions from the beer brewing and other company’s activities, meaning mainly carbonation, heating and use of vehicles and electricity.
The forest is approximately 20 years old mixed forest. The carbon balance of the forest was calculated with Motti simulator and the uncertainty of various components in the calculation were minimised. Calculations were made by Ari Laurén from the University of Eastern Finland.
Carbon dioxide emissions from the brewery originated from fermentation (2.9 tons), bottling and carbonation (4 tons), heating (3.4 tons) and from the use of the brewery van (2.8 tons), altogether 13.3 tons. Based on these calculations we can say that the brewery is not only carbon neutral but rather carbon negative.