Rumours that beer’s days are numbered in Spain have set alarm bells ringing.
The drought and rising manufacturing prices might set off cuts within the manufacturing of what’s thought of to be the preferred drink in Spain. Nonetheless, the sector is looking for calm, each the massive producers and the extra artisan ones.
Beer lovers can relaxation assured, in response to sources at Estrella Damm, one of many nation’s main brewers, that beer manufacturing is just not at the moment at risk of disappearing, not even on an area scale, as Sullerica, the Mallorcan model based mostly within the coronary heart of the Serra de Tramuntana, claims.
On the one hand, the sector’s employers’ affiliation, Cerveceros de España, stresses that it has been working intensively on measures in favour of environmental sustainability alongside your entire provide chain, from brewing to distribution and consumption, together with the cultivation and harvesting of uncooked supplies.
It continues to cut back water consumption, the speed of wastewater discharge, and the ratio of greenhouse fuel emissions at manufacturing websites, with the purpose of reaching zero waste in beer manufacturing by 2025.