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A life cycle assessment for each bottle, can or keg, on an engine built for drinks. ecoinvent, Agribalyse and DEFRA data, the uncertainty stated, and a report you can hand to a retailer, an investor or an export buyer.

alkateraLife cycle assessment

Example Brewing Co. · alkatera

Flagship IPA.

Prepared in accordance with ISO 14067:2018 and ISO 14044:2006.

Functional unit

1 × 330 ml bottle

System boundary

Cradle-to-gate

Reference year

2025

14 sections, from Executive Summary to Critical Review. Example report, illustrative.

Who it is for

Drinks brands whose buyers, investors or export markets ask for a footprint per product. That includes state alcohol monopolies: Systembolaget in Sweden invites its suppliers to report each product’s carbon footprint.

Pick your drink

Built for how drinks are actually made.

Choose a drink and see how it is made. alkatera’s footprint follows the same journey: the ingredients, making it, the packaging and getting it to the customer.

How we model beer

  1. Malting
  2. Mashing
  3. Boiling
  4. Fermenting
  5. Packaging

Spent grain to feed, CO₂ recovery and cleaning water, all modelled for brewing, not borrowed from a factory.

Uncertainty you can watch

Every report says how sure it is.

Each dot stands for a batch of simulated runs for one bottle. The report’s own check runs 10,000 times, then brackets the range the real figure most likely sits in.

Flagship IPA · 330 ml bottle · kg CO₂e

0.40.50.60.70.80.9
0.00kg CO₂e, central figure

95% of runs land between 0.00 and 0.00.

What moves the result most

  • Glass bottle weight44%
  • Barley yield21%
  • Electricity at the brewery15%
  • Freight distance9%

What the report says plainly

  • It treats the emission factors as independent of each other.
  • It leaves out uncertainty in the quantities you enter.

Illustrative figures for a made-up IPA. Each dot stands for a batch of runs.

Where the numbers come from

The best data first, every time.

The engine tries four sources in order and uses the first one that has a figure. Pick an ingredient and watch where it lands.

Pick an ingredient

Lands on source 1

Your grower sends fertiliser, diesel and yield figures after each harvest, so their own numbers are used.

  1. 1Your supplier’s own dataReal figures from your grower or packaging maker.Used
  2. 2DEFRA carbon factorsFor energy, fuel and transport, with ecoinvent for the other impacts.
  3. 3ecoinvent 3.12 or Agribalyse 3.2Life cycle databases, used under licence.
  4. 4alkatera’s curated factor libraryWhere nothing else fits closely enough.

alkatera uses ecoinvent under licence. You get results built on it, not the data itself.

The order of the sources is the engine’s own. The ingredients are examples.

What you walk away with

Things you can hold, not promises.

01

A footprint per product

Per bottle, can or keg, so you can compare products, sizes and packs.

02

More than carbon

Water, land use, waste and circularity, and nature, beside carbon. Carbon uses the IPCC AR6 100-year figures.

03

A report a buyer can read

A PDF with 14 sections, from the executive summary and goal and scope to data quality, uncertainty and the critical review notes. It states its system boundary: cradle to gate unless you add the product’s use and end of life.

04

A dossier per product

Every figure shows where it came from, and which inputs you still need to confirm.

How it works

Three steps.

  1. 1

    Enter what goes in

    Ingredients, packaging, where they come from, and how the product reaches the customer.

  2. 2

    See where it comes from

    alkatera works out the footprint and shows the source of each number, and which inputs to confirm.

  3. 3

    Hand it over

    Download the report, or send the product’s passport link to a buyer.

The straight answer

What alkatera does not do.

An alkatera LCA follows the ISO 14067 and ISO 14044 methods, but it is not a verified EPD and has not had an independent critical review. If a buyer needs either, that is a separate step with an outside reviewer. alkatera does not report into a buyer’s own platform, such as CarbonCloud, for you.

Price

£99

a month, in every plan

No per-product fee. Every plan includes the whole platform, from £99 a month (Seed, founding partner rate, excluding VAT), with a 30-day free trial. See what a drinks LCA costs.

Questions people ask.

What is a product LCA?

A life cycle assessment measures the environmental impact of one product, from growing the ingredients to making, packing and delivering it. For a drink, the result is usually shown per bottle, can or keg.

Does alkatera’s LCA follow ISO 14067 and ISO 14044?

It follows the methods in both standards. It is not a verified EPD, and the report has not had an independent critical review.

Does Systembolaget accept an alkatera LCA?

Systembolaget invites its suppliers to report product carbon footprints through CarbonCloud, free of charge, and says taking part is optional today. Its pages do not say whether other tools’ results are accepted. An alkatera LCA gives you the figures to work from, but alkatera does not report into CarbonCloud for you, and CarbonCloud counts to the shop shelf, where an alkatera footprint stops at the factory gate unless you add the later stages.

How does alkatera show uncertainty?

Each report gives a 95% range on the product total, a 10,000-run Monte Carlo check and a sensitivity test. It also lists what the method leaves out.

What does an LCA cost?

There is no per-product fee. Every alkatera plan includes the whole platform, from £99 a month (Seed, excluding VAT), with a 30-day free trial.

Sources · Read on 10 November 2026

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