3BR Is officially carbon neutral
Carbon neutrality is achieved by balancing emitting carbon and absorbing carbon from the atmosphere. This balance is crucial for mitigating climate change and ensuring a sustainable future.
HOW DID WE DO IT??
One of our most popular spirits, mendel vodka, is made
100% FROM PEAS
Peas happen to be great for the environment due to their ability to capture and put nitrogen back into the soil - reducing the need for nitrogen fertilizers to be used for them or the next cycle of farming in that same space.
THE VIKING SYSTEM
We use the Viking System, a specialty piece of equipment that creates caustic and sanitizer strictly from water and salt, reduces runoff of harmful cleaning chemicals, eliminates the need for plastic containers to hold the chemicals, and provides a food-safe alternative.
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Our distilling process has a unique design that includes a large water reservoir which allows us to recirculate the water needed in our condensing coils effectively reducing our water consumption by 500,000 gallons!
We use as much of our ingredients as possible so there is no waste! for example, we juice all our own limes and use the left over rinds for our limecello lime liqueur.
We regularly prioritize using locally grown agriculture to greatly reduce transportation emissions typically found with transporting supplies. In the past, we've sourced peaches, apples, basil, grapes, maple syrup, honey, and many more raw materials from local producers from New Jersey or we go foraging ourselves in the forrest for ingredients like juniper for our gin!
Reduce, reuse, & recycle
here at 3Br distillery we really care that we have as little waste at possible and have everything work efficiently. we love recycling here and reuse whatever we can.
when one of our spirits run out, we clean and sanitize them and we reuse all of our glass bottles and wooden corks
we age some of our spirits in a squarrel, a square barrel. after that aging process is done we can't reuse the same wooden staves to age more. we then take those staves and use them at the bar to smoke our cocktail glasses, like with the baba's smoking pipe.
we don't use plastic straws here at 3br distillery, and certainly not those gross paper straws! we have lovely metal straws that our staff put in the extra effort to clean and sanitize each one after use.
