Changing Tides is a 0.5% vegan lager from Toast Ale, which replaces some of the brewing yeast with leftover bread, to save on food waste. Profits go to help a food waste charity. It’s made with English hops and malted barley. Pubs, hotels and restaurants can order marketing materials and beer mats (the brand also sells boozy beers!)
0.5% is the lowest alcohol content percentage a beer can be. It is safe to drive, but if pregnant or nursing, it’s still best to avoid alcohol completely.
Before recycling, pop the ring-pull back over the can, to help avoid wildlife getting caught inside. Set up a can recycling program to raise money for your community!
Beer to Make a Real Difference!
Toast Brewing is a great company. All of its beers are vegan, and after paying for manufacture and salaries, profits go to help Feedback, a food waste charity to help feed hungry people. And each beer is helping to use up the colossal amount of bread waste (it even has a contract with Warburton’s to make ‘crumpet beers!’
The brand was founded by Tristram Stuart, who has now taken a back seat to focus on his fight against food waste, though he is still part of the company. His book Waste is literally the world’s answer to the food crisis, on a planet where more food is thrown away each day, that could feed every hungry person on earth.
Crops rot in the developing world, because farmers lack the means to store and transport them to market. This book takes him around the world and back home to England, talking to potato farmers and food industry CEOs, and meeting some foraging pigs along the way!
Tristram is an interesting character. Although he is a ‘freegan’ (who chooses to live off self-produced or discarded food, in order to highlight the global food scandal), he comes from a wealthy background (the grandson of an Earl), which makes him all the more inspirational. Instead of sitting on a bank balance, he is choosing the save the world!
Tristram’s main belief is that if you preach doom and gloom, it won’t work. But if you create positive solutions (like making fantastic vegan beers made from Warburton’s leftover crumpets), it becomes fun. And most people want to do the right thing.
So switch beers today! Tristan’s eventual wish is that Toast Brewing no longer exists, as there will be no bread waste o make it!
Supermarkets didn’t even want to talk to me, about how much food they were wasting. I’d been round the back. I’d seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites. And I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food, than waste it. Tristram Stuart
Imagine walking out of a grocery store with four bags of groceries. Dropping one in the parking lot, and just not bothering to pick it up. That’s essentially what we’re doing. Dana Gunders
