Beer from upcycled bread

Tāmaki Makaurau – Fast food outlet BurgerFuel has launched its first craft beer, made from rescued surplus bread.

In partnership with recycler Citizen Collective, they are now selling LagerFuel and LagerFuel light and will be available until November 30 or until stocks last.

October marks 27 years in the burger business for Kiwi brand BurgerFuel and they’re launching a limited-run craft beer collaboration to celebrate.

 Bread is one of New Zealand’s most wasted food products, with over 29 million loaves going to waste in New Zealand every year domestically, and that doesn’t account for unsold bread from supermarkets and shops.

Therefore, BurgerFuel have  teamed up with Citizen, the innovators behind an award-winning solution to rescue and upcycle unsold fresh supermarket bread, to create a craft beer to halt needless food waste.

LagerFuel and LagerFuel Light is brewed in partnership with the country’s only B Corp

brewery, Sawmill Brewery, and uses the fermented sugars of wasted supermarket

bread in the brewing process.

The result is a crisp, refreshing lager that rescues one slice of bread per can.

The ultimate long-term goal, to utilise the high-quality, nutritious spent-grain flour by product from the brewing process and upcycle that  grain to bake into future BurgerFuel wholemeal buns.

The spent-grain flour buns have been tried, tested, and approved. The sweetness without sugar in the buns is achieved with pumpkin and potato flour.

BurgerFuel is Aotearoa’s original gourmet burger brand since 1995.