Talk Title: Building a sustainable brewing operation
Gadds’ The Ramsgate Brewery has embraced and championed sustainability more broadly,
including installing solar panels at the brewery and helping other brewers to brew more
responsibly.
In this talk Gadd will show breweries what measures they can take to create a more sustainable
and cost-efficient business. This will focus on why evaporation is an expensive way to create
bubbles. By utilising technique called ‘simmer and strip’ breweries can use gas-sparging to achieve
the objectives of wort boiling without the energy-intensive requirement. On a like for like basis,
simmer and strip has helped reduce thermal energy use for their breweries by a further 5% when
compared to a wort boiling system operating at a typical 4% evaporative boil.

Location: Main Stage
Time: 29 September, 17:00

Eddie Gadd is the pioneering founder and head brewer of Gadds’ The Ramsgate
Brewery.
Gadd started the brewery in 2002 and has spent over two decades establishing Gadds’ East Kent
local ales as a benchmark for quality. He is widely recognised for his dedication to using Kentish
hops wherever possible, actively safeguarding the region’s historic hop-growing industry.
They’ve also been recognised for their pioneering approach to sustainability and carbon reduction
by installing a CO2 recovery plant, the first of its kind in the UK for a 5000hl brewery. They’ve also
installed solar panels at the Brewery, and encourage other brewers to work more sustainably.