Sustainability at the Craft Brewers Conference 2008
Back in 2004 when Fermenting Revolution was just a twinkle in my eye, I dreamed that one day sustainability would be on the agenda of the brewing industry. So wasn’t I giddy with beer activist pride...
View ArticleNew ‘Green’ Brewery in Beaufort, South Carolina
Seems like everyone’s catching the green train these days! I can hardly keep up with all the ‘green’ beer news anymore. That’s a good thing, although it does raise the question of just what ‘green’...
View ArticleCarrotmob Buys Beer, Gets Liquor Store to Go Green
During her presentation last week at the Craft Brewers Conference, Jenn Orgolini, Director of Sustainability at New Belgium Brewing, discussed a surprise finding in their new study that assessed the...
View ArticleUK’s First Carbon-Neutral Beer?
Adnams claims to have produced the U.K.’s first carbon-neutral beer. The beer is a light ale called East Green, named after the village common in front of the brewery. The summer issue of American...
View ArticleSierra Nevada Goes Organic
I visited the Sierra Nevada brewery last fall and spoke with founder and owner Ken Grossman about their sustainability efforts. Given the limited role sustainability plays in the company’s marketing, I...
View ArticleAnheuser-Busch Tiptoes Toward Alternative Energy
One of A-B's BERS systems. Anheuser-Busch announced it will brew about one in seven beers, or over 5 billion 12.oz servings, with alternative energy by 2009 as part of its goal to run its U.S....
View ArticleA Beer Brewed with Unmalted Barley?
Clime8 beer is brewed by the Harboe brewing company in Denmark. The package looks kind of like an energy drink, but that’s not the only unusual thing about it. This beer is brewed with unmalted...
View ArticleA Greener Mood Lights Up Pike Pub
Washington Post Beer Columnist Greg Kitsock (L) chats with Pike brewmaster Drew Clulely (R) at the Brickskeller a couple years ago. As a result of the first-ever Seattle Carrot Mob (now called “Agent...
View ArticleBrewery Ommegang Fights Fracking in Upstate NY
Brewery Ommegang, in Cooperstown, New York, is warning that it would relocate if fracking is allowed in the nearby town of Middlefield. According to an article in thedailystar.com, court papers filed...
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