This tour of Mill Green Brewery (“possibly the greenest brewery in England”) was perfectly timed to coincide their Dark Ale Days beer festival, giving CCFer’s the opportunity to sit out in the sun after the tour and sample some real ales while listening to live music.
Mill Green Brewery is a multi award-winning forward-thinking, but traditional brewery, using green technologies and local resources in brewing their beer. Check out some of Mill Green’s green credentials:
- The brewery building was built using local wood, reclaimed bricks, sheeps wool, and lime plaster.
- The brewing liquor is heated using bio and solar power.
- A 3000 litre storage tank is constantly heated by our solar panels and is then topped up to brewing temperature by a high efficiency wood boiler. (All the wood coming from a local Suffolk Wildlife Trust wood).
- They have a field 3 miles away in Chelsworth where they grow a large amount of our own malting barley and hops.
- A 6kw 9m wind turbine is situated on the campsite and helps provide electricity for the site.
- The used grains are fed to local cattle, and the hops spread on the White Horse’s beer garden hedge.