Creating the best beer culture for the future for the sake of nature and coming generations. This is the one shared vision that the Gösser brewery is working towards. Through countless initiatives, the brewery is pushing the use of renewables while simultaniously cutting its consumption of thermal energy, electricity and fuels:
- Approximately 40% of the required thermal energy is covered by the waste heat from a nearby wood processing operationt
- Another 50% of the thermal energy demand comes from biogas generated from their new spent grain fermentation facility
- An additional 5-10% comes from the wasteewater treating plant
- The brewery also uses environmentally friendly solar energy generated from a solar thermal system spreading on 1.500 m²
The total of 100% of the energy demand is covered by renewable sources, while at the same time 90% of the produced waste heat is used again. Since 2016, the brewery in Göss is officially producing 100% sustainably. To reward this commitment to sustainability, the brewery was certified and awarded multiple times before, with for example: The „Energy Globe Austria“, the EU Sustainable Energy Award and EU Public Citizens Choice Award, and the edie Sustainability Leaders Award last year.