The world is facing major challenges. This affects every single one of us, us as a society, and us as a company. We are aware that online retail entails an increased carbon footprint. With every step and every bit of growth that is possible thanks to you as part of our amazing craft beer community, we also want to give something back. We have taken several measures to save as much CO2 as possible, offset our emissions , and even neutralize additional CO2 .
Shipping at Beer Belly Cologne is climate neutral! We are a partner of "Planet" and therefore automatically offset the CO2 emissions generated during the individual shipping of our packages.
But that's not all. For every order you place with Beer Belly Cologne, the Eden Reforestation Project plants a tree, and together we improve our carbon footprint. Learn more about the project here . Our Impact Report provides transparent updates on our progress.
We collect all our beers directly from regional breweries. Short and direct routes are good for the beer and the environment.
We also receive beer deliveries by mail. We reuse the cardboard boxes provided by the breweries to send you the beer. So don't be surprised if you receive a used, not new, box.
To save resources, especially for our shipping partners, we pack your order in the smallest possible packaging size.
"As is so often the case, it all started for the Brewsistas in the kitchen.That's where we began creating our first brews in 2015. We experimented with all sorts of recipes. Then we ran out of space in our pots. We had to come up with something. So we quickly built a slightly larger 50-liter system and kept brewing. This system then served as our test batches for our pirate brewing adventures until we traded in our 50-liter system for 250-liter brewing kettles at the end of 2020."
Now we needed a place. As luck would have it, we were able to move into the Kat18 brewery hall.
Our first own brewery within a brewery was born! A kind of Matryoshka brewing.
Proud as punch, we're finally brewing more than just 50 liters of beer on our own system – beer that doesn't disappear in five minutes!But if we ever want to brew even more, we'll continue our pirate brewing days, meaning we'll seek out breweries that will let us brew their batches. With Fritz Wülfing and Ale Mania in Bonn, we've found the perfect partners and a fantastic home for our beers, brewed in 10-hectoliter batches. There, we created our Awesome Pale Ale with New Zealand Motueka hops, our Royal IPA – a West Coast IPA refined with our own honey – and Sista X, featuring Callista as the main hop.
We also brewed the collaborative batch with BrewDoo from Bonn at Ale Mania. The result was the legendary Mama Citra. A true New England IPA."
