Wasted Degrees was founded in 2017 and is based in Blair Atholl, surrounded by hills in the Cairngorms National Park. A big part of who we are is our approach to sustainability and sourcing ingredients local to the brewery. Like a record, baby… we go round round, specifically following the circular economy.
Known for: IPAs, Pales, Porters, Lagers.
Dietary guidance: Vegan friendly.
Wasted Degrees Brewing
Perthshire
Wasted Degrees was founded in 2017 and is based in Blair Atholl, surrounded by hills in the Cairngorms National Park. A big part of who we are is our approach to sustainability and sourcing ingredients local to the brewery. Like a record, baby… we go round round, specifically following the circular economy.
Known for: IPAs, Pales, Porters, Lagers.
Dietary guidance: Vegan friendly.
About Wasted Degrees Brewing
Wasted Degrees is all about big flavours and small footprints. #ShopWasted is our way of letting people know that they can choose to buy beer that's produced in a way that cares for the planet, that cherishes UK agriculture and that values community.
Ultimately, we brew the beers we like to drink. Our line-up changes frequently and we choose to brew just one core beer year-round. Everything we do is small batch, limited edition: once it's gone, it's gone.
We’ve developed some epic partnerships with growers and suppliers nearby the brewery to source brewing ingredients and materials from within the Cairngorms and Perthshire. It's not always possible to source these ingredients upfront or in the volumes we would want, but we work with growers to invest in & develop something sustainable for the future, to create demand for delicious ingredients that ultimately do good for people and the environment. Ask us about Scottish hops!
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... Heading for its third vintage year, the annual Wasted Degrees cider has become a much loved local community collaboration. 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 4 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.
