Beer&Food Attraction 2024: Otus won the sustainability award.
Otus Cuor di Pane, the helles against food waste brewed using unsold bread, received the Innovation – Sustainability Award at Beer&Food Attraction.
Beer&Food Attraction, the annual exhibition that brings together the most comprehensive national and international offer of beers, beverages, food and Out-of-Home trends, has just ended in Rimini.
Otus Brewery was there this year too and with great satisfaction we announce that our craft beer Cuor di Pane received the Innovation Award in the Sustainability category (products and/or services that reduce environmental impact during production, use or disposal). The contest’s Evaluation Committee recognised our commitment against food waste: we produce our helles using unsold bread retrieved from original producers. Bread is gathered by a social co-operative that supports disadvantaged or disabled people.
«Cuor di Pane originates from the awareness that Earth’s resources are not endless and from the desire to contribute to the reduction of food waste: it is brewed by blending barley malt with unsold bread; we have recovered more than 1,500 kg of it since 2019. Thanks to the innovative production process, Cuor di Pane is a gluten-free beer. An accredited company certifies gluten absence for each production batch in compliance with Regulation (EC) No. 41/2009 – Art. 3, c.4».
Otus Brewery’s commitment to sustainability
The use of unsold bread for our helles recipe is just one of the many initiatives that our craft brewery has implemented over the years to promote sustainability; major projects include:
We purify wastewater from production processes and to do so, we consume 2/3 less electricity than traditional plants.
We avoided the release of 21 tons of fossil-derived CO2 into the environment. Malt, hop, and yeast spent grains supplied by Otus in 2022 contributed to a biomethane production of approximately 14,000 cubic metres.
On average, it takes about 8 L of water to produce 1 L of beer; in Otus, thanks to the waste water recovery plant of the production process, we use only 5 L.
The awards given to Otus for its commitment to environmental sustainability
The Innovation Award received by Cuor di Pane is not the first recognition given to our work on this area. In fact, just a few months ago, during Bolle di Malto 2023 festival in Biella, Otus was given the Sustainability Award, recognising in this way our commitment to water conservation and wastewater treatment.
