Toast Ale

Saving the world starts with beer. At least that’s what the guys at Toast Ale believe. The company, set up by food-waste campaigner Tristram Stuart in 2016, brews beers using left-over fresh bread from big bread companies.

“Bread is the UK’s most wasted food,” says COO, Louisa Ziane. “We use loaf ends that would otherwise be discarded when making packaged sandwiches. By using surplus bread rather than virgin barley, we reduce the demand for land and water, and avoid emissions.”

The social enterprise donates all its profits to charities which help to fix the food system, including Feedback (feedbackglobal.org), founded by Tristram. Toast also does occasional collaborations with breweries and bakeries around the world, most recently with Warburtons, using wonky crumpets to make a Toasted Crumpet ale. toastale.com