Drink green: skip the bottle, do a keg stand
Here's some news that you might like to know about before you get your weekend party on. According to the International Journal of Lifecycle Assessment, draft beer has a 68% lighter environmental impact than drinking from the old longneck. Because of it's bulk packaging, keg beer creates less waste over its lifecycle. So, according my calculations, skipping the Solo cup will reduce keg beer's lifecycle waste even further.Of course, if you really want to green your drinking habits, going draft is just the tip of the green-drinking iceberg. The first and relatively easy choice is to start drinking organic beers, or at least start drinking locally made beers. Or, if possible, you could switch to a local and organic microbrew -- the best of both worlds. If you really want to get your hands dirty, and I mean literally, you can greatly reduce your beer-footprint by going the homebrew route. It's a bit of a chore, but we've got a step-by-step video explaining the process.
[via Treehugger]
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7-20-2008 @ 2:15PM
Marilyn Terrell said...
For another eco-brew suggestion that doesn't require standing on your head, try a beer made by Long Trail Brewery in Vermont, which uses a third less water than industry standards, and sells its spent mash to farmers for high-protein cattle feed:
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2007/08/raising-the-bar.html
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