Green & Organic Beer

Sunday Beer Briefs

by Luke

Just a few briefs to get you through the painstakingly slow hours between now and the game tonight. For starters, Jay Brooks at the Brookston Beer Bulletin has posted a link to a map of the USA made from beer labels, each representing the state of its origin. While some of them are hard to [...]

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A Great Barleywine on a Great Winter Day

by Luke

Today marked the beginning of Maine’s oft-annual January Thaw and temperatures reached 41 degrees (and they say it should read 50 on Tuesday). To celebrate, we got up early and headed to Shawnee Peak for a down-right perfect day of hitting the slopes. The conditions were excellent and we returned home this evening sore in all [...]

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New Belgium’s Fat Tire is for the Fishes

by Luke

New Belgium Brewing made a lot of news in 2007 — from their wildly popular Fat Tire Amber Ale, to their on-going efforts to make brewing sustainable. Well 2008 seems to be no different. The famous Colorado brewery’s flagship beer suddenly has another characteristic: It’s now a key ingredient in an environmentally friendly form of fish [...]

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Predictions for Beer in the New Year

by Luke

2007 was certainly a big year for the beer world. Small, independent brewers have experienced tremendous growth across the country (while, thankfully, sales at the “big three” have remained relatively flat); there has been an explosion in the “green” and organic brewing sector; the popularity of homebrewing continues to rise; on a much sadder note [...]

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This weekend: Drink Beer, Think Clean Snow

by Luke

A weekend long “Get Snowed In” event at Seattle’s Pyramid Brewering Co. this weekend will benefit The Snowrider Project (“an offshoot of  the ocean-centric Surfrider Foundation, Snowrider focuses on keeping snow and mountains clean so as not to pollute our waterways”; think Coastal Code, but on snow). The party will run Friday and Saturday nights [...]

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Bay Area Organic Beer (and Wine) Tasting Slated for October 26th

by Luke

What: CCOF’s 2nd Annual Organic Beer and Wine Tasting When: 4-8 p.m. Oct. 26. Where: Ferry Building, at Market Street and Embarcadero, S.F. How much: $15 for five tastes, $25 for 10 tastes. For more information: Visit http://www.ccof.org/ccoftasting.php or e-mail Julie Rockrow at Julie@ccof.org. According to an article in today’s Contra Costa Times, Wine and beer lovers [...]

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