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February 12, 2021 - 3:19pm

We teamed up with other local Kalamazoo-area breweries and businesses to keep more plastic out of our landfills

A Kalamazoo-area recycling “co-op,” that incudes six local craft breweries, will divert about 26,000 lbs. of plastic per year from Michigan landfills. The collaborative led by the Kalamazoo Nature Center and us, applied for, and received a $12,000 Recycling Market Development Grant from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE). One Well Brewing...

December 15, 2020 - 9:25am

Bell’s Brewery receives ENERGY STAR Challenge award for sustainability efforts

Imagine a stretch of highway connecting Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids returned to forest. That is roughly 501 acres worth of pavement or about 380 football fields. It’s also the environmental equivalent of Bell’s Brewery’s energy efficiency improvements this year. The energy efficiency projects executed to make this reduction possible are why Michigan’s largest independent craft...

November 12, 2018 - 9:02am

Bell's Sustainability Manager named co-chair of the Brewers Association Sustainability Subcommittee

Our very own Walker Modic, Environmental & Social Sustainability Manager, here at Bell’s has been named the new co-chair of the Brewers Association (BA) Sustainability Subcommittee. Modic will join co-chair Katie Wallace of New Belgium Brewing in leading the BA’s efforts to help brewers maintain a healthy balance between environmental stewardship and...

September 1, 2017 - 1:48pm

2017 Bell's Hop harvest at the brewery a success

Harvest season is underway at hop farms across Michigan, including the 2.5 acre field next to our Comstock Brewery. On the first day of September, we harvested our Chinook, Cascade, and Newport hops. After they were picked by employees and some of the High Five Hop Farm crew, our hops were brought out to Hop Head Farms to be processed into pellets.  Taking care of...

August 31, 2017 - 11:30am

Bell’s Accepted into the Glass Recycling Coalition

As of July, 2017 our brewery is a member of the Glass Recycling Coalition (GRC). We’re excited to be a part of this initiative to help ensure that our, and all glass containers throughout the United States and world are recycled to their highest and best use. Though we’re based in Michigan, where a great deal of glass manufacturing takes place, our beer...

May 1, 2017 - 2:20pm

Eccentric Café now offers customer facing compost

As part of our continued sustainability efforts, the Eccentric Café has resumed composting and is offering one of the few customer-facing composting options in the Kalamazoo area. Now when you’re at the Café you’ll have three choices: regular trash, plastic cups and compost. The new composting coincides with weekend BBQ on the patio and food service in the garden and patio...

April 29, 2014 - 2:29pm

Sustainability: Adopt a Highway program kicks-off

This year’s Adopt a Highway program kicked off at the end of April, making this our seventh year participating in this unique opportunity to give back to our community. To date, our employees have picked up more than 750 bags of trash along the highway here in Comstock, Michigan. Two more clean-ups are scheduled for this year.

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