Alcoholic drinks

April 20 2010

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER), a coalition of beverage industry companies and supporting partners, has launched its Beverage Industry Sector Guidance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting (Sector Guidance), Version 2.0.

August 9 2009

SABMiller and WWF-UK have jointly published a report, Water Footprinting: Identifying & Addressing Water Risks in the Value Chain that explains the water footprint of the whole value chain for SABMiller beers in South Africa and the Czech...

February 6 2009

The Government of South Australia’s Department of Primary Industries has just published the results of a piece of research that looks at the economic and environmental impacts of selling South Australian wine in the United Kingdom, a key market...

September 5 2008

Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reports that Sapporo Breweries Ltd. has announced it will introduce a label on one of its beer products next year stating how much carbon dioxide is emitted per can during the entire production and disposal...

July 18 2008

WRAP has now completed its Glassrite project. This was a large-scale demonstration project of the viability and opportunities available to the wine industry for bulk importing wine, lightweighting bottles – it also explores consumer perceptions...

March 7 2008

Champagne has become the first region in France to announce a clear breakdown of its carbon dioxide emissions, and set out strategies for reducing them (see news article here). Speaking at the...

November 27 2007

Beverage Daily reports on the possible scope for using biogas to fuel the brewing process, using spent brewer's yeast as an energy source. In essence the article says it's a technology that could be developed more and which offers potential,...

May 1 2007

There are few life cycle assessments of alcoholic drinks. However one example is: Siret Talve, Life Cycle Assessment of a Basic Lager Beer, Int J LCA 6 (5) 293 - 298 (2001).