Craft Brew Alliance, Inc. (“CBA”) (Nasdaq: BREW), a leading craft brewing company, announced today the release of its fourth Annual Sustainability Report, providing an in-depth look at the company’s accomplishments in three focus areas: carbon intensity, waste prevention, and local community giving.

As one of the largest craft brewers in the U.S., CBA is committed to being a leader in sustainability through ongoing efforts that include benchmarking its carbon emissions, maintaining one of the lowest water usage rates in the industry, partnering with suppliers to source more sustainable packaging, and investing in biopower to generate renewable energy.

In 2016, the company also set three-year sustainability targets as part of its strategic World-Class Craft initiative.

“2016 was a great year in terms of advancing our commitment to sustainability, tracking our impact and setting three-year goals to minimize our carbon footprint and support our local communities as we brew great-tasting beer,” said Julia Person, Corporate Sustainability Manager, CBA.

“Across our breweries, we made important strides forward in our three focus areas – reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, getting closer to zero waste, and community involvement. We look forward to putting this report together each year as it gives us the opportunity to share our goals and progress – as well as some of our beers — with our employees, partners, and consumers.”

2016 CBA Sustainability Report Highlights

• We completed our first Lifecycle Analysis on a bottle of beer to understand our biggest opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint. One bottle of Kona Longboard Lager brewed in our Portland brewery generated 392 grams of CO2 emissions, which places us well within the environmental benchmark.

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