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“Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker” Launches Website to Promote Environmental Sustainability in Craft Beer
PRESS RELEASE / PLANET EARTH (April, 2020) -- Social media presence Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) has launched a website to highlight environmental sustainability in the production and consumption of craft beer. The launch coincides with...
Do These 3 Things To Be An Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker
You’ve probably heard the “drink local” slogan a thousand times. But have you ever thought about the impact it could have on the environment if more of us actually committed to it? The truth is that beer has a sizable carbon footprint, and not just in the way it’s...
Susgrainable Makes Breads and Healthy Baked Goods Out of Beer Waste
STORY LINK / VANCOUVER, CANADA (June, 2020) - With Susgrainable, Marc Wandler and Clinton Bishop are conquering some mighty societal issues: food wastage and diabetes. Their weapon? Delicious baked goods made of beer “waste”. It took the friends, roommates, and...
Farmers Save Over 2 Billion Gallons of Water, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 26.6% in One Growing Season Through Indigo Ag and Anheuser-Busch Partnership
PR / ST. LOUIS & MEMPHIS, TN. (May, 2020) -- Indigo Agriculture, a company dedicated to harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet, and Anheuser-Busch, the country’s leading brewer, today announced the results of their effort to produce rice...
This Social Enterprise Brews Beer From Leftover Bread to Tackle Food Waste
STORY LINK / LONDON, ENGLAND (May, 2020) - With its signature beer made from surplus bread, Toast Ale is at the forefront of the fight against food waste, and the movement to make the food industry more sustainable. Whilst visiting the Brussels Beer Project, and...
Ball Announces National Partnership With Acosta for Retail and On-Premise Launch of the Ball Aluminum Cup™
PR / Broomfield, CO, (May, 2020) -- Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) today announced that it has named Acosta, a leading sales and marketing agency in the consumer packaged goods industry, to exclusively represent the company's aluminum cups in retail and...
How Will Climate Change Affect Craft Brewers?
Sometimes a problem is so expansive or daunting that it's best to put it in practical terms people can easily relate to. So here it is beer drinkers: if the current rate of climate change isn't significantly slowed in the very near future, some of the ingredients in...
Breweries Worldwide Increasingly Ditching Plastic Beer Can Carriers For Eco-Friendlier Ones
PLANET EARTH - Worldwide, well over 100 breweries have now switched from industry-standard plastic can carriers to eco-friendlier ones. Among the most cited reasons are that single-use plastic packaging has proven surprisingly difficult to recycle, and the resulting...
Mad River Brewing Unveils First Logo Under Yurok Ownership Emblem, Honors Company’s Original Ethos, Tribal Heritage
PR / Humboldt County, CA (May, 2020) - The Mad River Brewing Company’s award-winning craft ales will soon brandish an incredible new illustration that honors the business’s deep roots in Humboldt County, while clearly identifying it as a distinctly Yurok Tribe-owned...
Lion Becomes Australia’s First Carbon Neutral Brewer
In November 2019, Lion signalled its intent to achieve Climate Active certification in 2020. PR / AUSTRALIA (May 2020) - Lion is proud to announce that it has become Australia’s first large-scale carbon neutral brewer. By complementing its ambitious carbon reduction...
How Beer Brewers are Embracing Sustainability
STORY LINK / USA (May, 2020) - If you speak with people in the beer industry about sustainable practices, one thing quickly becomes clear: Brewing, in general, is not an environmentally friendly business. “Beer is about as wasteful a product you can imagine,” says Joe...