The brewmasters at our sister company in the Czech Republic are dedicated to maintaining the integrity of Pilsner Urquell, the original pilsner beer first brewed in 1842. With no compromise on the quality and provenance of Czech brewing, they have introduced a range of energy saving measures to reduce carbon emissions across Plzeňský Prazdroj.

As a result, the business has achieved an energy reduction of over 8% per hectolitre of beer produced in the last twelve months. The brewery in Pilsen, which brews Pilsner Urquell has performed better than average as energy use has reduced by over 10% per hectolitre over the same period. Amongst others, energy saving measures have included CO₂ heat recovery which enables heat to be recycled in the brewery and the shortening and insulating of steam pipelines.

In addition, Plzeňský Prazdroj has reduced emissions outside the brewery. For example, it has made extensive use of rail to transport its products. In 2010, its products covered 530,000 km by rail, transporting over 60,000 hectolitres of beer. This replaced the 430 truck journeys that would otherwise have been made across Europe.

Furthermore, transport emissions have also been reduced through improving the planning of packaging collection from the sales and distribution centres to Plzeňský Prazdroj's breweries. By reducing the number of journeys by trucks, it is estimated 85 tonnes of CO_2e a month have been saved through this initiative.