Toast Brewing X Aldi

ANOTHER ROUND

About Toast
We set out to make beer that tastes amazing and does amazing things too. That’s why we brew with surplus bread, turning leftover loaves into liquid gold. We’ve reinvigorated a process that’s as old as beer itself - our ancestors first brewed beer with bread over 5,000 years ago - to solve a modern day problem.. 
By using surplus bread to replace malted barley, not only can we make good use of one of the most commonly wasted foods but we need less malt than other beers (and so less of the land, water and energy that is used to grow and malt it).

Another Round with Aldi
We’ve collaborated with Aldi’s Hop Foundry brewery to produce a special edition beer using surplus bread from Aldi’s bakery supplier. 
‘Another Round’ is a juicy, hazy 3.4% Session IPA. It’s brewed with surplus tiger bread and malted barley for a light malty base. We’ve used English-grown Harlequin and Ernest hops to give it a citrussy burst and notes of peach and passionfruit. It has a light mouthfeel and refreshingly dry finish.

Sustainably brewed with surplus bread
For this special edition beer, we used 3 tonnes of surplus bread. Reduced to a dried crumb, it gave us 20% of the fermentable sugars with the remainder from malted barley.
The carbon footprint for a single 440ml can of Another Round is 125 gCO2e. Our Life Cycle Analysis breaks this down as following:

If this same beer had been brewed with 100% malted barley, the emissions attributed to the ingredients could have been approximately 43 gCO2e (10% higher). By using less than 100% barley for this brew, our ingredients have an approximately 6,126m3 smaller water footprint (equivalent to 40 litres per can). 
Barley also requires land to grow - productive agricultural land that could otherwise be used to grow other food crops or returned to nature. If we had used 100% barley, the land footprint of our ingredients would have been 2,548 m2 larger.

Global demand for food is increasing every year and to meet this demand we are extending the agricultural frontier into wild places such as the Amazon. We need to reduce demand for agricultural land. Given one-third of food produced globally is wasted, using by-products instead of growing more food is a no-brainer.
Whilst we can’t directly attribute a lower land footprint to wildland saved, it is useful to consider the global system impact it may have. If pressure is reduced for land for food production and therefore land in tropical forests is preserved, we avoid emissions from deforestation (due to soil disturbance etc) and protect valuable carbon sinks.

Raise a Toast
Thanks to everyone who has purchased a can of Another Round. Toast is a social enterprise with all profits dedicated to environmental charities (a minimum of 1% of our sales). During 2024 we have supported local community groups and the national charity Plantlife - find out more about their work at www.plantlife.org.uk.

Cheers!