The Bite:
The best cure's right outside your door: drinking locally produced beer's an eco-friendlier way to get your malted hops fix. Next time you don your beer goggles, make sure you don't, um, hop into bed with just anyone.
Are you ale-ing?
05.30.2007
Submitted by tmeronek on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 12:01am.
The Benefits:
- Support for your local economy. Keep some of your money circulating in your hometown.
- Better taste. Crafted in smaller batches, microbrews offer more varied flavors than the average 6-pack from 7-Eleven.
- Energy savings. Most of our food and drink travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles before going down our gullets. Less mileage means less energy use.
- Drinking what's on tap saves aluminum and glass bottles.
Personally Speaking:
The Bozeman Biter Team's favorite Friday group activity is going to the "tasting center" to sample great Bozone microbrews, then leaving with a growler.
Wanna Try:
- BrewPubZone - lists brewpubs and microbreweries in all 50 states.
- Fermenting Revolution - this book explains the sustainable roots of beer and what brewers are doing today to go green ($15). Check out the author's blog here.
- Seven Bridges Cooperative - info on home brewing with organic ingredients.
Carin Apperson and Bill Crane
Cocktail Fact
Bill Coors invented the recyclable aluminum can after an ecologist showed him photos of a discarded steel Coors can stuck in the Colorado tundra.
Bang For The Bite
A stein (or two, or three) of local lager won't halt climate change, but as long as you're drinking, it's by all benchmarks the better choice.
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