SAB's plans to brew Castle Lite using only renewable electricity and intends to brew from entirely renewable resources by 2025

[mylesillidge]

South African Breweries saying goodbye to Eskom

In light of the recent spell of load-shedding, South African Breweries (SAB) has announced its plans to brew from entirely renewable resources by 2025.

The company also plans to brew Castle Light — almost half of which is already produced from renewable resources — using only renewable electricity.

 

[VooDooC]

Good, hope more and more companies can go a similar route. The faster we can all get off the grid, the better

 

[RonSwanson]

Good for SAB.

 

[RedViking]

Good, hope more and more companies can go a similar route. The faster we can all get drunk, the better

FTFY

 

[3WA]

Good idea, and easy to implement for Castle Lite, which is brewed in the human bladder.

 

[WollieVerstege]

Give them a Bells ... O no, wait.

 

[dualmeister]

They actually brew it?
Thought they just relabeled some sparking water.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Gross, I hope it fails, I hate Castle Lite

 

[rvZA]

Gross, I hope it fails, I hate Castle Lite

They will brew a lot less than before. No worries, Castle Lite won't pose any threat to you at all. You are likely to brew more home-made stuff than they will do with clean energy.

 

[CTBP]

 

[B-1]

They will brew a lot less than before. No worries, Castle Lite won't pose any threat to you at all. You are likely to brew more home-made stuff than they will do with clean energy.

Why? Its a really good use case as they don't brew beer 24/7. They can plan the hours according to the solar output and use grid when needed.

 

[dualmeister]

 

[RaptorSA]

Nice to know my alcoholism is going green.

 

[bwana]

Gross, I hope it fails, I hate Castle Lite

If they succeed then they can apply what they've learned to brewing beer next.

 

[NeonNinja]

Ya brew water?

 

[quovadis]

I understand why any company (or anyone for that matter) would go off-grid. The unintended repercussions of such may be worse though for those without means to do so. Sad really but it is what it is - almost 14 years of load shedding is unacceptable.

 

[Gazg]

By calling it "Castle Light", was that an attempt at a pun, or totally unintentional?? Ha ha

 

[ThinkCentre]

Is this the reason for beer to come in green bottles?

 

[mypetcow]

I have a feeling that not everyone here really understands what SAB is doing and what they actually mean with their statement:

We’re making the #SwitchToRenewable ‘cos by pulling less electricity from the grid to brew #CastleLite you get more electricity to do you. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/3C88ZWA

1. They're not going off-grid, they are only pulling less electricity from the grid meaning that their solar installation is grid parallel, i.e. they're staying connected. They will thus run the plant just as before, no scheduling the plant with solar output nonsense. No power intensive industrial company would go off-grid.
   
   
2. By them not pulling as much energy from the grid to run their operations, there is more electricity to go around to everyone else, i.e. they are increasing grid capacity at least during the day, i.e. reducing the risk of load shedding by a tiny fraction, hence the you get more electricity to do you.
   
   

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Good, hope more and more companies can go a similar route. The faster we can all get off the grid, the better

But but indignant house holds something something poor...