Did you know our cafes and bars prioritise stocking products that meet our sustainability promise of putting planet over profit? To celebrate B-Corp month our latest sustainability spotlight is focussed on Toast Brewing. These guys are turning surplus bread into tasty beer - all while donating all of their profits to environmental charities.
If you love great beer and care about sustainability this one is for you. Toast Brewing brings you beer that tastes amazing and does amazing things too. Toast brew with surplus fresh bread, turning leftover loaves into liquid gold. What’s more, 100% of their profits go to environmental charities—because good beer shouldn’t cost the Earth. 🌍
How does it work? Toast partner with bakers to source the heel ends of loaves that aren’t used by the sandwich industry plus end of day surplus loaves from large bakeries. The surplus bread replaces 1⁄4 of the malted barley typically used when producing beer and provides the starches that are then broken down to fermentable sugars by malt enzymes and subsequently turned into alcohol during fermentation. As of early 2025 Toast had brewed with over 4 million slices of surplus fresh bread.
Why Toast Brewing?
Not only are Unrooted's little bottles of juice shots good for your health, they are also good for the planet. How?
- Toast are a certified B-Corp, meaning they meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. Toast was actually the first UK beer company to become a B Corp and are still the highest scoring UK brewery. In 2024 they scored 125.5 (whereas an average business may score 50.9)
- When they turn surplus bread into tasty beer Toast are helping to reduce both food waste and carbon emissions in their brewing process. Plus their new draught beer available in Institute produces roughly 80% less emissions than a bottled beer. Win-win!
- They donate 100% of their profits to environmental charities including Plantlife and the Rainforest Trust UK and are a certified Social Enterprise.
- Oh and they have the coolest tap we've seen with their world first living beer tap which is covered in mossy greenery.
Toast is available in bottles and on draft in the Institute Bar and in bottles at Phineas, Huntley and Mully's.
Credit to Matt Crossick_PA Media Assignments for Toast Brewing banner image.