Victory Brewing, Waste Oil Recyclers Tackle Brandywine River Clean Up
Story by Cassie Hepler
If there’s one thing that inspires me about the human race, it is the concept of giving back especially when your company is doing so well. I am proud to feature this event as just one of the ways Victory continues to be committed to the environment, giving back to the local community and show their outstanding appreciation for clean water (after all, you can’t make a good beer with filthy water). These core principles inspired Victory to start the Headwater’s Grant, donating one cent of every bottle of Headwaters Pale Ale sold to the protection of the delicate Brandywine Watershed.
Waste Oil Recyclers, a local company with a global mission of recycling waste vegetable oil, and Victory Brewing Company, a craft brewery dedicated to the preservation and protection of vital natural resources through its Headwater’s Grant, worked together with volunteers on Tuesday, Aug. 12 at 9 a.m. to protect the quality and quantity of waste at their annual Brandywine River Clean up. As part of the important event, brewpub Chefs Glenn McQueen and Joe Pryor were invited to exercise their culinary talents and create a fabulous demo and lunch for the volunteers utilizing Wyebrook Farm-donated meats and produce grown in Waste Oil Recyclers’ MoGreena Community Garden in Modena, Pa. This garden is tended by volunteers from the Coatesville Youth Initiative and benefits the Chester County Foodbank.
Over about 60 tires, metal drums, hundreds of bottles and cans, a stroller, multiple carpets, 3 full sized bikes, a kitchen sink (?), a trampoline, bed frame, scooter, roller skates and more were pulled out of the water in about 2 miles. Twenty four volunteers – 10 from Victory, 14 from Waste Oil Recyclers and Coatesville Youth Alliance – braved the rain and participated. The chefs cooked out in the rain for lunch with hamburgers and cheeseburgers made from the Wyebrook ground beef, grilled veggies from Waste Oil Recyclers garden, pasta salad with more veggies from the garden, and coleslaw made at Victory.
