This episode features my conversation with Anushka Purohit, CEO and Co-Founder of Breer. Breer is a Hong Kong based beer company that brews beer with surplus bread from bakeries, thus helping to reduce the large amounts of food waste produced in the city.

Currently a final year Engineering student in Hong Kong, Anushka and her co-founders pitched the idea of using surplus bread to brew beer at a social innovation competition and won! With the prize money, they launched Breer.

We talk about the process of launching Breer, how ingrained values in Hong Kong society is a challenge to waste reduction, the difficulties of coming to terms with her new role as an entrepreneur and more!

Here is a summary of the podcast:

🍞How a bakery hangout inspired the team to brew beer with bread

🧮 How local bakeries save money by giving their leftover bread to breer

🍺Creating the beer’s flavour profile based on the specific type of bread

📍Using the Breer app to connect consumers to their mission

🖋Documenting the carbon footprint of Breer

🇭🇰 Challenges specific to reducing food waste in Hong Kong

👩🏻‍💻Balancing life as a final year student and an entrepreneur

Follow at @breerhk or head to their website: https://www.breer.com.hk/

An individual Anushka thinks is Up to Some Good: David Yeung (@greenmonday.david)  Founder of Green Monday (global plant-based platform), Green Common and Omnipork