Our Environment

"Great beer using the least amount of energy and water - simple"

The Sharp's approach to the environment is simple and honest. We recycle all of our raw material waste through some novel environmentally efficient channels.

For example:

• A local dairy herd consumes thirty tonnes of our spent grain every week.
• Hungry pigs devour almost five tonnes of protein rich Sharp's yeast per week.
• Cornish beef cows drink up to 30 litres of waste beer per week.
• Many of our empty bottles are collected from across Cornwall and turned into drinking glasses by the Green Glass Company.

Our Brewery at Rock is one of the UK's most energy efficient with sophisticated heat exchangers recovering energy at each process stage. We even recover the natural heat generated by fermentation.

Water is used sparingly throughout the Brewery and we are proud to have one of the best water usage to beer output ratios in the industry.

Our delivery fleet was the first in Cornwall to use 100% bio diesel. This clean fuel is produced from regionally grown rapeseed. Sharp's does not brew organic beer. Process yield from organic malted barley is considerably less than for non organic barley and organic hops are generally air freighted into the UK from as far afield as New Zealand. We prefer to brew great beer from quality ingredients using the least amount of energy and water.