FT Food Revolution

Can new innovations reduce beer’s water usage?

The beer manufacturing process is extremely water intensive – on average it takes approximately ninety litres of water to produce a litre of beer. But the industry is taking steps to both improve on that statistic and lighten beer’s overall environmental footprint. Ayesha Durgahee travels to the Netherlands to explore the different ways breweries are attacking the sustainability issue.

More from the FT Food Revolution channel

Discover more content on the topics that inspire, engage and inform the world we live in today at the FT Channels hub.

Discover more​

Follow us

FT Food Revolution

FT Channels, a partnership destination that combines impactful and enriching multimedia content to spark curiosity and encourage discovery. Each vertical brings expert insights from the Financial Times and our Partners into the most pressing issues of our time.


FT Food Revolution is a video channel looking at the people and businesses working to create a more sustainable food system - from tackling food waste and environmental health, to sustainable farming and food security. The channel alternates between independent reporting from FT journalists and expert posts from Rabobank.