A toast to sustainability! German company brews beer from leftover bread

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SOT, Rabea Zarse, fair attendee (German): "It tasted really good to me, I don't see any difference to a normal beer. If I had the two in front of me and this was one of them, I would not be able to tell the difference. It's a great product"
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SOT, Rita Hagl-Kehl, fair attendee (German): "The idea is excellent, because we have much too much food that we throw away, it is a worldwide problem, not that we produce less food but rather the food waste. And in this case, to brew a beer out of a product that otherwise would land in the garbage, is brilliant."
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SOT, Daniel Anthes, Knärzje Founder and CEO: "Knärzje, which is something like the first German zero-waste beer; why is it zero-waste? Because we brew beer with surplus bread, so bread that would otherwise have landed in the bin, we give it a second chance and if you will, cycle it up, and make beer out of it, and so we want to combine pleasure and sustainability in a very easy way."
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SOT, Daniel Anthes, Knärzje Founder and CEO: "[We] just use really the surplus bread, because we want to if you will, eliminate waste and we know that in Germany we waste by far too much food and bread is amongst the most wasted if you will foods in Germany apart from vegetables and fruits, so baked goods if you will like bread comes directly in second place and so there is a lot of potential in order to cycle bread up in order to make it land on the plate of the human if you will or in the glass in our case."
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SOT, Daniel Anthes, Knärzje Founder and CEO: "We want to create a beer that looks, tastes and smells like normal beer but that has the certain extra value if you will because it's quite sustainable and in it's case being a beer that is going zero waste if you will. But of course, dependent on the bread that you use you get different types of beer our of it because we use one-third bread instead of malt so it's a big proportion of the normal ingredient list. And of course therefore if you use white bread the beer is getting a little bit thinner and a little bit more drinkable and if you use like 'Volkoern' bread in Germany, like dark bread of course the beer gets a red colour and has a certain type of taste to it basically so you can do experiments with both different kinds of bread which makes it I think quite exciting."
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A sustainable brewer presented the "first German zero-waste beer" during Green Week in Berlin on Wednesday.
Knärzje produces beer made out of leftover bread from bakeries, giving new life to food waste that would otherwise land in the rubbish bin.
"[We] just use really the surplus bread, because we want to if you will, eliminate waste and we know that in Germany we waste by far too much food and bread is amongst the most wasted if you will foods in Germany apart from vegetables and fruits," said Daniel Anthes, Knärzje founder and CEO.
"We want to create a beer that looks, tastes and smells like normal beer but that has the certain extra value if you will because it's quite sustainable," he added.
Visitors who tried the beer commented positively, with one praising its taste and the "excellent" idea behind the product.