Toast Companion™ - a circular additive from surplus bread

社会企业啤酒厂吐司Ale正在建设一个研发设施，将多余的烘焙面包转化为低成本、环保的原料，用于啤酒生产和更广泛的食品行业。自2016年推出吐司以来，该企业已经用250万片面包酿造了啤酒，这些面包本来会被浪费掉。他们的获奖啤酒在全国各地的维特罗斯、库普和奥卡多销售。通过投资剩余面包的酿造加工，它将增加可以拯救的面包数量，并提高将其转化为啤酒的效率。这将减少更多的食物浪费，这是气候变化和土地使用变化的重要因素，降低粮食成本，提高粮食安全。面包是英国最浪费的食物之一（英国44%的面包被浪费了）。这也将减少对麦芽的需求，麦芽占啤酒环境足迹的30%左右。这也将为面包店创造额外的收入来源，同时减少他们的浪费成本，提高利润率。通过创新英国赠款，吐司在小规模面包酿造方面的知识和专长现在将被带到工业规模，并进一步创新，以扩大酿造行业以外的应用。

Social enterprise brewery Toast Ale is building a research and development facility to convert surplus bakery bread into a low cost, environmentally positive ingredient for beer production and the wider food industry.Since Toast launched in 2016, the business has brewed with 2.5 million slices of bread that would have otherwise gone to waste. Their award-winning beer is sold nationally in Waitrose, Coop, and Ocado.By investing in the processing of surplus bread for brewing, it will increase the amount of bread it can rescue and improve the efficiency with which it can be turned into beer.This will reduce more food waste, a significant contributor to climate change and driver of land use change, reduce food costs and improve food security. Bread is one of the most wasted foods in the UK (44% of UK bread is wasted).This will also reduce the demand for malted barley, which accounts for approximately 30% of the environmental footprint of a beer.It will also create an additional revenue stream for bakeries whilst reducing their cost of waste, improving margins.With the Innovate UK grant, Toast's knowledge and expertise in small-scale brewing with bread will now be taken to an industrial scale with further innovation to wider applications beyond the brewing industry.