Perthshire
Founded in 2016, Wasted Degrees is the largest independent craft brewery in Perthshire. Owned by two local brothers - Conall and Jack - the brewery is powered on renewables and brews with Scottish grown & malted barley.
Holders of multiple regional and national gold, silver and bronze medals from SIBA, Wasted Degrees brews a broad range of styles in addition to its core range.
Known mostly for: IPAs & Pales, Amber Rye, Lager.
Membership perks: 5% off merchandise, free brewery tours & a 5% discount on pizzas at the taproom.
Membership perks: 5% off merchandise, free brewery tours & 5% discount on pizzas at the taproom.
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About Wasted Degrees Brewing
Founded in 2016, Wasted Degrees is the largest independent craft brewery in Perthshire.
“Imagine what my parents thought when, after following in their footsteps into a career in teaching, I quit my job to start a brewery in their garage… I still use a whiteboard, but it’s all about beer these days!”
Conall Low - Founder
We typically brew 1500 - 3000 litres per batch and up to 25,000 litres each month. Our draught is predominantly found within 50 miles of the brewery and our cans are sold into 250+ independent retailers across the UK. You won't find any of our beers in supermarkets. So far, our beers have been sold in 13 countries!
Unlike many small breweries, we do virtually everything in-house: brewing, canning, kegging, label design, marketing, exporting. Our barley is grown and malted in Scotland.
Sustainability
Our 100% renewables powered brewhouse was built using circular economy principles: Frankenstein would be proud of how we've rescued, refurbished and integrated our equipment to create high quality beers.
We don’t like waste at the brewery! We love shredding used cardboard to re-use as shipping filler (around 99% of our B2C packaging is either recycled or recyclable), we use a heat exchanger to recover energy from one brew and use it in the next and, once we’re done brewing, we send our spent grain just a few minutes up the hill to the cows at Lower Tirinie Farm.
We don't just make beer... throughout harvest season (late-September to October) the brewery becomes a local hub for collecting apples. In 2019 we realised that, like so many parts of the country, our local area had a wealth of apple trees… but a great deal of the fruit was going to waste. We put those apples to use, creating delicious cider and feeding local livestock with the remaining pulp. In exchange for donating apples, people are offered beer upfront or cider when its ready. Together with our community of fans, we’ve saved 9 tonnes of apples so far! The harvest is limited, so you'll need to visit the brewery’s Taproom to give it a try.
Our local area is known for growing berries, but not all of them have the Hollywood appearance that the supermarkets want. We rescue this fresh-but-blemished fruit to create things like raspberry porters from time to time.