Environmental consultants Tyler Grange launch environmentally-conscious beers
Cotswolds environmental planning firm Tyler Grange has joined forces with Birmingham craft brewery Burning Soul Brewing to launch a duo of environmentally conscious beers.
The Cirencester-based B-Corp, well known for pioneering the four-day working week, has been brewing low carbon-impact beer since 2017. The collaboration with Burning Soul brings its range tally to eight.
Bramble (5.5% abv) was chosen as the name of this late summer, farmhouse style pale ale due to the seasonality of blackberries growing in hedgerows. These, in turn, are very important from an ecology perspective - in terms of biodiversity, arboriculture and as a landscape feature to the natural world.
Tyler Grange’s dark Solstice beer (7.3% abv) is a coffee breakfast stout - with notes of espresso and dark chocolate and is named after the winter celebration of the sun in December.
Solstice has also been curated in collaboration with Tyler Grange Manchester’s favourite coffee bar and roasters Mancoco. 75 freshly brewed doubles of its signature Espresso Blend – made using fairly traded single origin beans from Sumatra, Brazil and Ethiopia - were immediately transported, by train, to Birmingham’s Burning Soul to be added straight into the beer.
Tyler Grange and Burning Soul have collaborated before, creating Phoenix, which uses the locally-sourced hops of the same name.
Tyler Grange’s Jon Berry said: “We started brewing back in 2017, from our Cotswolds office, and we’ve since gone on to produce eight beers, and thousands of cans each month. It’s a typically Tyler Grange thing to do, as we spotted an opportunity and ran with, to see what could happen, and it’s ended up pretty big. Next year we plan to brew four – one for each season and reflective of how seasonal environments shape ecological processes.
“We started off, many years ago, as a hobby for some of us has become an incredible success and, crucially, it brings many benefits to our business - including employee engagement, happiness and satisfaction.
“As well as being lots of fun, it’s yet another example of how diverse and innovative we are as a business. We’re not just about one thing. We have lots of interests to celebrate. It makes us better at our jobs and provides us with a terrific talking point.”
Burning Soul's Chris Small said: “Tyler Grange came to us with the idea of creating a low carbon beer to gift to its clients and partners free of charge. It’s not often that we brew beer for no profit, which has made the collaboration even more interesting.
“Working with Tyler Grange has been a really enjoyable experience. The team is really passionate about brewing beer that aligns to their ethos and brand values, which has been educational and fun.”
“The very nature of beer brewing makes it difficult to stay completely environmentally friendly, and the challenge set by Tyler Grange to do as much as we can to offset any harmful impacts provided us with some creative license to experiment with new, carbon saving methods, whilst making excellent beer at the same time.”
