Founded in 2016, Wasted Degrees is owned by two local brothers – Conall and Jack Low – and crafts limited edition beers in its 100% renewables powered brewhouse in Blair Atholl, Scotland.
“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
With the exception of our Helles Lager and Amber Rye, we tend to brew our recipes once. We’re not in this to brew the same thing forever more, where’s the fun in that! You’ll always find familiar styles, but the recipes and names are always changing.
Known for: IPAs, Pales, Porters, Helles Lager, annual local cider
Dietary guidance: Vegan friendly.
Wasted Degrees Brewing
Perthshire
Founded in 2016, Wasted Degrees is owned by two local brothers - Conall and Jack Low - and crafts limited edition beers in its 100% renewables powered brewhouse in Blair Atholl, Scotland.
“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
With the exception of our Helles Lager and Amber Rye, we tend to brew our recipes once. We’re not in this to brew the same thing forever more, where’s the fun in that! You’ll always find familiar styles, but the recipes and names are always changing.
Known for: IPAs, Pales, Porters, Helles Lager, annual local cider
Dietary guidance: Vegan friendly.
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About Wasted Degrees Brewing
Founded in 2016, Wasted Degrees is owned by two local brothers - Conall and Jack Low - and crafts limited edition beers in its 100% renewables powered brewhouse in Blair Atholl, Scotland.
“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. The two things that differentiate Wasted Degrees the most are our product range and its choice of ingredients / supply chain:
Wasted Degrees only routinely re-brews two of its recipes (Helles Lager and Amber Rye), choosing to make all other beers Limited Edition single batches. Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever. Fans of craft beer love this philosophy, they can constantly explore reliable, good quality beers, but from familiar styles (e.g. IPA, Scotch Ale, Stout etc etc).
Wherever possible, Wasted Degrees’ limited-edition beers utilise local ingredients and flavour-generating core components, be they whisky casks, berries, hops, native herbs or responsibly sourced & locally roasted coffee beans, for example.
Unlike many small, craft breweries, we do virtually everything in-house: brewing, canning, kegging, label design, marketing, exporting.
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.
