Daily Tip: Green Your Beer Selection
There are several ways you can start drinking green, if you don’t already (chances are you already do.) The next time you sidle up to the bar, ask for a draught beer or a local brew.
Choose draught beer. When you opt for a pint over a bottle, you’re saving on packaging. Draught beers are pulled from kegs and each keg contains around 124 pints, which are normally served in glasses. And unlike the bottled varieties, when the keg runs dry, it is sent back to the distributor to be refilled.
Ask for a local brew. Local brews are, well, brewed locally. And while some may go through a bigger distributor, most are shipped local and don’t have as far to go saving on fuel and transport emissions. Microbreweries make up beer in smaller batches, so the overall footprint is smaller than the bigger brands. And if there’s a brewpub attached, you can literally get your beer straight from the source. Many local breweries also offer small kegs or growlers of beer you can take home. To find a brewery near you, check out BrewPubZone.com.
Go organic. There are an increasing number of organic beers and spirits available. Ask your bartender if they carry any - if not, see if they can get some.
Amy says: I’ve always been a bit of a self-proclaimed beer snob and prefer draught to bottles (or cans) any day. Normally when I head to my local watering hole (usually to watch a baseball game on tv), I’ll grab a local beer. My new favorite is Brooklyn brewed Six Point Craft Ale’s Sweet Action.
More on Beer from GO:
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Green Brews: An Ecology of Beer
Green Brews: Judging Beer at the Corvallis Brewfest
Anheuser-Busch Walks The Organic Trail With New Beer
Reduce, Reuse, Respect the Brew: Beer-Making for Environmentalists
Fosters Brewery To Develop Fuel Cell That Runs On Beer
Green Brews: It’s All in the Bottle
Kicking the Habit: Adventures with Homebrew
Kicking the Habit: Adventures in Homebrew, Part Two
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August 22nd, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Do people still drink beer from cans? Yuck! Good article. For a partial list of organic beer manufacturers, go to http://www.organic-nature-news.com/organic-beer.html.
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