Scotland's whisky industry is trying to go net-zero. It's not easy.
They see a day when whisky makers will more wisely husband Scotland’s water and better recycle their waste, and deploy the dregs — the byproducts like draff and pot ale — into a virtuous “circular economy” of fertilizer, animal feed and biofuel.
Scottish distilleries also take a long view. They are part of a tradition that goes back centuries, and they think in decades, producing spirits that often spend 12 years or more maturing in casks. They can see clearly that there is only one direction to go.
But the distillery is still run on fossil fuels — and the treated wastewater isn’t drinkable. It just meets minimum standards to put into the bogs.distillery made news when it pledged to go net-zero even sooner than 2030. But the company’s chief executive, Douglas Taylor, told The Washington Post, this is much harder than he imagined.
The distiller switched from using heavy oil to medium oil to a commercial heating oil. A little cleaner? Yes. But a long way from net-zero. In the old days, the energy to heat the kettles came from coal. Today, it’s from natural gas or fuel oil — the oil typically transported by diesel tankers plying the seas and then by diesel trucks moving along narrow farm roads.Thomas said she has thought a lot about the future — the future of the planet and her future sales. High-end whisky is a luxury, she knows, an indulgence. “And if the industry doesn’t change, we will lose younger generations,” she said.
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