Last week IAAS Belgium organized an online event about beer and sustainability. During three evenings we had different speakers from different backgrounds in the beer industry. First one to come was Joris Cambie, an organic hop farmer with his own brewery. He thought us which measures he takes to grow is hop organically and also how he uses that to brew his own beers. On Tuesday we were happy to have Stijn Panis with us. Stijn has two nonalcoholic beers on his name so he explained to us why and how you can make alcohol-free beers. Last but definitely not least Father Isaac from the Spencer Brewery in the USA joined us. Trappist communities value sustainability and community work a lot, so it was no surprise that they have an amazing program to make their beer and monastery more sustainable. For example, they work with biomass energy that they generate themselves, they have a spring on their lands for which they provide a 7km long protection and much much more. I have to say that I was very pleased with the way this event turned out and I’ve definitely learned a lot from our 3 speakers. Maybe we’ll do this again somewhere in the future?
