![]() ![]() "Without great water, you can't brew great beer," Moline says. The competition among breweries across the country to use less water is heating up. Molson Coors Beverage Company has announced plans to cease production at its Irwindale, CA brewery by September 2020. The brewer eliminated 65 tons of waste that was previously sent to landfill each month from its brewery and corporate offices, logging its first landfill-free month at the brewery in December 2014. Moline says there’s a great demand for sustainable beer. MillerCoors, an American brewer with more than 450 years of combined heritage, today announced that its Milwaukee Brewery and corporate offices are landfill-free. They could continue brewing for three years if they had to use only the water from the reservoirs. In order for a drought not to effect MillerCoors, they have filled two large reservoirs with water next to their brewery for emergencies. When there’s a drought, like the 2015 drought in California, breweries experience a major hit in that state. What people don’t realize is that a majority of American breweries share the same water as the rest of the surrounding communities. We make sure we recover as much water as we can and return it back into the Clear Creek system." “We are making sure we are not wasting water or spilling water. "We do that by tracking water throughout the entire brewery,” Moline explains. Since the 1950s, MillerCoors has been leading the way in water conservation. So, MillerCoors is conserving about two barrels each time. Usually, it takes about five to six barrels of water per every barrel of beer. ![]() In November, Pabst Brewing Co. Currently, their water use is just below 3 barrels of water use per every barrel of beer produced.īeer is 90 percent to 95 percent water. MillerCoors has brewed Pabst brands at its breweries around the country, including in Irwindale, since 1999. The company brews 10 million barrels of beer a year. 11 reviews of MillerCoors There are only a couple places where the smell of the place can put me in a euphoric trance while driving past it on the road. So that as the Denver area grows, there is water available for other people." The official website of Molson Coors Beverage Company, which for more than two centuries has been brewing beverages that unite people for all of life’s moments. The official website of Molson Coors Beverage Company, which for more than two centuries has been brewing beverages that unite people for all of lifes. “To make sure that we use water most efficiently. "Being a large brewery in a metropolitan area, it’s our responsibility to be a good corporate citizen,” Moline says. The rushing water from Clear Creek is used not only by MillerCoors to brew beer, but the entire city of Denver, too. "We collect a lot of snow throughout the winter that snow is now melting and flowing down Clear Creek,” says Ben Moline, senior manager of water resources and environmental compliance at MillerCoors. MillerCoors has been known as the Rocky Mountain beer, using snow-melted water to brew their beer for decades. MillerCoors in Colorado has been taking on water conservation one barrel at a time. Breweries around the country are leading the charge to save more water, while keeping the same great taste. ![]()
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