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Drink a pint, waste less food

A brewery in England, has been using discarded breakfast cereal to make beer in a project intended to address the issue of waste

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In all his years in the beer industry, Keith McAvoy had never taken much professional interest in Coco Pops.
 
From time to time, Mr. McAvoy, who runs the craft brewery Seven Brothers in Manchester, England, would raid his children’s supply of the chocolate-flavored breakfast cereal for “a cheeky bowl” or two — though only, he said, “when nobody was looking.”

Recently, however, Coco Pops have become more than a guilty pleasure for Mr. McAvoy.

For the past seven months, Seven Brothers has been using breakfast cereal to make beer. The aim of the venture is nobler than the inevitable “beer

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