Environmental impact report, year to 30 June 2026, Brackenmoor Brewing

Environmental impact report template with an emissions table and reductions

An environmental impact report has to state what a business measured and how, where its emissions, water and waste come from, and what it will do to reduce them by when. This six page report for a craft brewery sets out its scope and method, an emissions table across scopes 1, 2 and 3, water and waste, six costed reduction actions, targets to 2030 and a data quality rating.

Create a document with OneCraft6 A4 pages, editable, then download as a PDF

The document, page by page

Every page as it renders and as it prints, with nothing summarised. Read the wording before you reuse it.

Environmental impact report

Brackenmoor Brewing, year to 30 June 2026

Emissions, water and waste from brewing 1.84 million litres of beer, and what changes next.

Prepared by

Brackenmoor Brewing operations team

Date

October 2026

Brackenmoor Brewing · Environmental impact report · Year to 30 June 2026Page 2 of 6

Brackenmoor Brewing · Environmental impact report · Year to 30 June 2026Page 3 of 6

Brackenmoor Brewing · Environmental impact report · Year to 30 June 2026Page 4 of 6

Brackenmoor Brewing · Environmental impact report · Year to 30 June 2026Page 5 of 6

Brackenmoor Brewing · Environmental impact report · Year to 30 June 2026Page 6 of 6

1. Summary

This is Brackenmoor Brewing's first environmental impact report. In the year to 30 June 2026 the brewery produced 1,840,000 litres of beer and emitted an estimated 1,105.0 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (t CO2e), or 60.1 kg for every hectolitre brewed. It used 4.0 litres of water for each litre of beer and kept 95.3 percent of its waste out of landfill, most of it spent grain sent to a local farm as cattle feed.

Most of the footprint sits outside the brewery walls: packaging and ingredients alone make up 52.7 percent of emissions. Inside the walls, the gas fired boiler is the largest single source. The report sets targets for 2030 and six actions, starting with heat recovery on the brewhouse and rooftop solar, which together cut an estimated 103 t CO2e a year.

1,105 t

Total emissions

60.1 kg

Per hectolitre

4.0 L

Water per litre

95.3%

Waste diverted

2. Scope and method

The report covers the brewery and taproom at one site, the two delivery vans and the freight carrier contracted for interstate orders. Emissions follow the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard, grouped into scope 1, fuel and gases released on site and from owned vans; scope 2, purchased electricity; and selected scope 3 sources, those upstream and downstream that the brewery can measure and influence.

Item	How it was calculated
Gas and diesel	Quantities from supplier invoices, multiplied by published national emission factors
Electricity	486 MWh from meter data, at the grid factor published by the retailer, 0.35 kg CO2e per kWh
Refrigerant and CO2	Top up quantities from service records, and CO2 bought for carbonation, assumed fully released
Packaging and ingredients	Purchased tonnes multiplied by average factors for glass, aluminium cans, malt and hops
Excluded	Staff commuting, customer travel to the taproom and end of life of packaging; estimated below 5 percent of the total

3. Emissions by source

Source	t CO2e	Share
Scope 1, direct
Natural gas, brewhouse boiler	212.4	19.2%
Diesel, delivery vans	41.2	3.7%
CO2 for carbonation	18.6	1.7%
Refrigerant leakage, cool room	9.8	0.9%
Scope 2, purchased electricity
Electricity, 486 MWh	170.1	15.4%
Scope 3, selected
Glass bottles and aluminium cans	318.5	28.8%
Malt and hops	263.6	23.9%
Contracted freight	58.4	5.3%
Waste to landfill	12.4	1.1%
Total	1,105.0	100.0%

By scope, direct emissions are 282.0 t CO2e or 25.5 percent, electricity 170.1 t or 15.4 percent, and the selected scope 3 sources 652.9 t or 59.1 percent. Packaging is the largest single source, and its factor is the most uncertain: recycled content varies by batch, and the supplier does not yet report it.

Emissions by source, t CO2e

4. Water and waste

Brewing is water intensive: water goes into the beer, but far more goes into cleaning tanks, lines and kegs. The brewery drew 7,360 kilolitres from the mains, 4.0 litres per litre of beer, and discharged 5,150 kilolitres to the sewer under its trade waste agreement. Most of the difference left in the beer itself or as steam from the kettle.

Waste stream	Tonnes	Where it goes
Spent grain	410	Cattle feed, local farm
Cardboard, glass and cans	38	Recycling
General waste	22	Landfill
Total waste	470	95.3% diverted

Trade waste

Wastewater from a brewery carries sugars and yeast that load the sewage treatment plant. The brewery tests pH and strength monthly under its trade waste agreement and recorded no breach in the year.

5. Reduction actions

Six actions are planned over three years, ordered by tonnes saved per dollar. Savings are estimates against this year's figures.

Action	t CO2e a year	Cost	When
Recover heat from the kettle vapour to preheat brewing water	47	$68,000	March 2027
Install 120 kW of rooftop solar, about 160 MWh a year	56	$132,000	June 2027
Move to lighter 330 ml bottles, 15 percent less glass	29	$0	January 2027
Replace both delivery vans with electric vans at lease end	35	$18,000	2028
Fix cool room refrigerant leak and move to a lower impact gas	8	$9,500	December 2026
Capture rinse water from keg washing for first rinses	1	$14,000	2027
Total	176	$241,500

Together the actions would cut about 176 t CO2e a year, 15.9 percent of this year's total. The rinse water project saves little carbon but is expected to cut mains water by about 600 kilolitres a year, which is why it is on the list. The electric van cost is the extra lease cost over three years compared with diesel.

6. Targets

Measure	Year to June 2026	Target 2030	Change
Scope 1 and 2 emissions	452.1 t	271 t	-40%
Emissions per hectolitre	60.1 kg	48 kg	-20%
Water per litre of beer	4.0 L	3.2 L	-20%
Waste diverted from landfill	95.3%	98%	+2.7 points

Progress will be reported each year in the same format, with the same factors unless better data becomes available, in which case the baseline will be restated so the comparison stays fair. The next report covers the year to 30 June 2027 and will include the first full months of heat recovery.

7. Data quality

Each figure is rated by how it was obtained. Improving the low confidence figures, packaging above all, is part of next year's work, and any restated baseline will be shown beside the original.

Source	Confidence	Next step
Gas, electricity, diesel	High	Metered or invoiced; no change
Water and waste	High	Metered and weighed; add a sub meter on keg washing
Refrigerant and CO2	Medium	Log every top up with quantity and gas type
Malt and hops	Medium	Ask the maltster for a product specific footprint
Packaging	Low	Get recycled content by batch from the glass and can suppliers
Contracted freight	Low	Use the carrier's distance and load data, not spend

Section by section

What each section is for, so you can keep the ones you need and drop the rest.

Cover: Overlay cover with the brewery, reporting year and a one line description.
1. Summary: Production, total and intensity, water, waste diversion, the largest sources and the first actions.
2. Scope and method: What is covered, how each figure was calculated and what was excluded.
3. Emissions by source: Nine sources grouped by scope with tonnes and shares, scope subtotals and a bar chart.
4. Water and waste: Water drawn and discharged, three waste streams with diversion, and trade waste testing.
5 and 6. Reduction actions and targets: Six costed actions and four targets to 2030.
7. Data quality: Confidence in each figure and the next step to improve it.

How to adapt this document

First, list your own sources from invoices and purchasing records before choosing any factors; a cafe will find milk and coffee where this brewery has malt and hops, and a builder will find concrete and diesel. Second, if you are reporting for the first time, keep scope 3 to the few sources you can measure and say what you excluded, as section 2 does, rather than estimating everything badly. Third, rate your data quality honestly, because a customer or lender who receives the report will ask, and a low rating with a plan is more credible than false precision.

What makes this document work

The method comes before the numbers

Section 2 says how every figure was calculated, from invoiced gas to purchased tonnes of glass, states the 0.35 kg per kWh electricity factor, and names what was left out, such as staff commuting. A reader can judge the 1,105.0 t total because the working is on the page.

Sources reconcile to the total

Nine sources add to 1,105.0 t CO2e and their shares to 100.0 percent, and the scope subtotals of 282.0, 170.1 and 652.9 t are given in the text. Intensity, 60.1 kg per hectolitre, is stated beside the total so growth in production does not hide progress.

Actions are costed and honest

Each action carries tonnes saved, cost and timing, adding to 176 t and $241,500. The report admits the rinse water project saves almost no carbon and keeps it for water, and rates packaging data as low confidence rather than presenting it as exact.

Questions people ask

What are scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions?

Scope 1 covers emissions a business releases directly, such as burning gas or diesel it owns. Scope 2 covers emissions from generating the electricity it buys. Scope 3 covers everything else in its value chain, from the materials it buys to transporting and disposing of its products. For most small manufacturers scope 3 is the largest, as packaging and ingredients are here.

Does a small business have to report emissions?

In many countries mandatory climate reporting applies only to large companies, but small suppliers are increasingly asked for figures by the large customers, lenders and retailers who must report their own scope 3. A voluntary report like this one answers those requests once, in a consistent format, rather than in a different spreadsheet for each customer.

Where do emission factors come from?

From government and recognised published sources that convert a quantity, such as a kilowatt hour or a tonne of glass, into carbon dioxide equivalent. Use the factors for your country and year, state them, and keep them the same from year to year unless better data arrives. Supplier specific factors, where available, are more accurate than averages.

What is emissions intensity and why report it?

Intensity is emissions divided by a measure of output, here kilograms of CO2e per hectolitre of beer. A growing business can cut intensity while total emissions rise, so reporting both shows whether efficiency is improving and whether the absolute footprint is falling. Targets usually set one of each, as this report does.

Can a business restate its baseline?

Yes, when it finds better data or a calculation error, and it should say so. Restating keeps comparisons fair: if packaging turns out to have more recycled content than assumed, the baseline falls too, rather than the improvement being claimed as progress. Show the original and restated figures side by side.

Build your own in about a minute

The button below opens the generator with this use case already described. Change the wording to match your own, generate, then edit anything you like.

Make one like this

Sources

Written and checked by the OneCraft team. Last checked 5 October 2026.