Citizen Collective was founded in 2020, with an ambition to help reduce food waste in Aotearoa New Zealand, by diverting surplus foods from waste or low-value streams. Our first product is craft beer made using surplus bread. We collect unsold bread from supermarkets and use it to replace a quarter of the malt barley in each brew. Every can of Citizen uses the fermentable starches from one rescued slice of bread - helping to reduce food waste, and also reducing the amount of virgin barley required in each brew. We brew in Matakana with our wonderful brew partners, Sawmill Brewery. Sawmill is B-Corp certified, which means they meet the highest environmental and social standards.