The following set of facts come from Elizabeth Royte’s Bottlemania. This is the third set of facts that have been used for the Five Friday Facts. Click here for the first one. For the second set, click here. According to restaurant consultant Clark Wolf, the restaurant industry revenue from bottled water sales is between $200 [...]
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Five Friday Facts: The Rise of Bottled Water
November 25th, 2011 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Recylcing 
Tags: Beer, Elizabeth Royte, Plastic, Water 
No Comments »Organic Beer Neumarkter Lammsbräu
November 16th, 2011 Mac Maloney As mentioned in a previous column, the Germans have been serious about the purity of their beer (at least in writing) since the putting forward of the Reinheitsgabot (beer purity law) in 1487 and there are many breweries which uphold that tradition today. As mentioned in the tagline of this website – People, Planet, Profit [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Energy Efficiency, Revolutionary Spirits, Sustainability Tags: Beer, Food, Mac Maloney, Solar Energy No Comments »Your Guide to a Sustainable Thanksgiving
November 15th, 2011 Megan Stilley Every year American families sit down on the fourth Thursday of November and gorge themselves on anything and everything, including parades and football. It symbolizes the start of overeating, over-consuming, and general wastefulness for the next month. This is also called the holiday season with Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza and New Years all within a month. Really, [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Featured Posts, Local Energy/Food, Sustainability Tags: Beer, Composting, Food, Megan Stilley, Organic, Waste No Comments »Review of Organic IPA from Eel River Brewing Company
October 6th, 2011 Mac Maloney After a long lay off, Revolutionary Spirits returns with its latest column reviewing a beer from Eel River Brewing Company (ERB), the first certified organic brewery in the United States. ERB is nestled in the town of Fortuna, in Humboldt County, California. Humboldt County is traditionally known for another type of herbal refreshment, however it is now home [...]
Magic Hat Brewery Tips Its Brim to Energy Conservation with Biogas
July 26th, 2011 Justin Manger In a bid to use the tons of grain waste produced during the brewing process that would normally go to waste, Magic Hat is going green. 21 tons of grain waste are produced per day at its South Burlington, VT factory. Instead of simply disposing of this “waste,” Purpose Energy is helping Magic Hat install a 492,000 [...]
Pinkus Organic Münster Alt
January 15th, 2011 Mac Maloney The German’s created the first food purity law, the Reinheitsgebot, in 1516. It stated that beer could only be brewed using water, hops, and barley. Initially, only intended for the Bavarian region, the law spread throughout Germany and is still seen as a positive measure for brewing beer. The law has since been changed to [...]
Site Visit: Odell Brewing, Adding to the List of Sustainable Breweries
December 27th, 2010 Eric Wilson The proliferation of breweries in Colorado is truly amazing. Growth in the industry has been explosive in the last twenty years. According to Rocky Mountain Brewing News there are currently 90 breweries in Colorado. The tour guide stated that were only 2 breweries in Colorado before Odell. In 1989, Odell Brewing started fermenting their flagship [...]
Harvest Beers from Sierra Nevada and Weyerbacher
November 3rd, 2010 Mac Maloney Autumn is harvest season and that certainly holds true for the beer industry as well. Breweries around the country have been experimenting with autumn seasonal beers by including traditional ingredients, such as pumpkin, blueberry, cherry, and even pecans (Abita Brewery). More recently, harvest beers have grown to include freshly picked (wet) hops. By adding wet [...]
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