Brewer who turns bread into booze seeks £20,000 for next round of ales

A brewery that found a way to transform unwanted bread into beer is aiming to expand its range of beers to slash the “scandalous” number of loaves wasted each year.

Craft beer company Toast Ale uses surplus bread from bakeries, delicatessens and supermarkets to create the booze, which has been championed by chef campaigners Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

Currently 24 million slices of bread are thrown away every day by UK households.

Now the company, created last year by Tristram Stuart — founder of food waste organisation Feedback — wants to expand its operation to make an even greater dent in the figures.

It today launched a fundraising campaign to generate £20,000 to produce two new beers, Toast Craft Lager and Toast Session IPA, which it says is a “small price to pay to put an end to the nation’s food wastage problem”.

For more information visit www.crowdfunder.co.uk/Raiseatoast