31 May 2019
15 minutes
Alan Mahon is the founder of Brewgooder, a Scottish craft-beer company that donates all its profits to clean-water projects. Launched in 2016, the Certified B company has to date helped fund more than 130 such projects from sales of its Clean Water Lager, brewed in partnership with Brewdog, with the overall aim to improve the lives of more than one million people by 2025.
31 May 2019
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