Are you ale-ing?

05.30.2007

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.
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: 
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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