New Belgium Brewing Company

New Belgium's environmental model combines operational efficiency with supply-chain intervention. Its 2030 goals are a 55% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions and a 30% reduction in Scope 3 emissions from a 2019 baseline, plus 100% renewable electricity. The company says these goals align with Kirin Holdings' Science Based Targets initiative targets. Projects include fermentation-carbon-dioxide recovery, partial steam electrification, solar, biogas and geothermal generation, water-efficiency work, lower-impact packaging, waste diversion, watershed partnerships, and purchasing regeneratively grown malt. These initiatives can reduce impacts, but targets, installed capacity, purchased renewable electricity, and modeled supply-chain benefits are not the same as measured company-wide emissions reductions.

The social model directs one dollar per barrel sold to nonprofit support through the Dollar per Barrel Giving Fund and gives coworkers influence through site committees, matching gifts, paid volunteer incentives, and grassroots grants. Focus areas include climate and environment, thriving communities, bicycle advocacy, water stewardship, governance, and identity, equality and rights. New Belgium also offers Poured for All inclusion training to hospitality businesses and supports responsible-consumption education. Grant totals and volunteer hours are inputs and outputs; they do not independently establish long-term community outcomes.

New Belgium's 2025 Human Powered Business Report is the principal source for current performance data. It covers the combined operating footprint, including Bell's-associated Michigan facilities, and reports with reference to GRI Standards, but the company explicitly states that the report was not externally assured. The figures below should therefore be read as company-reported unless a certification body is specifically named. B Corp certification provides independent assessment against B Lab's framework, but it does not independently assure every metric in the annual report or make the company's products impact-free.

Company-reported 2025 climate results: total Scope 1-3 emissions were 285,663 metric tonnes CO2e—18,065 Scope 1, 17,406 market-based Scope 2, and 250,192 Scope 3. New Belgium reported a 14% year-over-year reduction in Scope 1 emissions, while increased transportation during the Asheville brewery's Hurricane Helene recovery offset some operational gains. Renewable electricity supplied 7% of consumed electrical power, including 2,385 MWh generated onsite. The company-wide 2030 goals—55% lower Scope 1 and 2, 30% lower Scope 3 from 2019, and 100% renewable electricity—remain targets, not results.

Company-reported 2025 resource results: Fort Collins used 3.7 volumes of water per volume of output, a 3% year-over-year improvement and about 25% of the way toward its 3.4:1 target for 2027. Overall manufacturing-waste diversion was 98.83%. New Belgium sourced 1,558 metric tonnes of ReGenMalt, representing 3% of total malt. Supplier-specific practice claims and intended soil, biodiversity, water, or emissions benefits are not quantified here as achieved company outcomes.

Company-reported 2025 social results: $1,715,195 in community investment went to more than 307 U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations; cumulative Dollar per Barrel giving exceeded $36.2 million over three decades. Coworkers recorded 7,214 volunteer hours, and $311,544 in grassroots grants supported bicycle advocacy and water-stewardship programs. The company reported 1,357 coworkers at year-end and an 81% engagement score with 82% survey participation. These are spending, participation, workforce, and survey measures rather than independently evaluated beneficiary outcomes.

Certification and reporting caveats: New Belgium's current site says it has been a Certified B Corp since 2013 and displays a 136.5 B Impact score without dating that graphic; this profile does not treat that undated score as a current assessment-period result. New Belgium also reports ISO 14001:2015 certification for New Belgium-owned production facilities, but the directory has no ISO 14001 relation to assign. The 2025 report was not externally assured, and historical carbon-neutral certification for Fat Tire is product-specific, so no company-wide carbon-neutral certification relation is created.