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Toast Ale and Warburtons Use ‘Wonky’ Crumpets to Create Beer
NEWS STORY / UNITED KINGDOM (February, 2020) -- UK brewer Toast Ale has joined forces with bakery company Warburtons to launch a beer brewed using leftover crumpets. With an ABV of 4.2%, the session IPA is made by replacing some of the malted barley in the beer with...
How A 500-Year Old German Brewery Started An Eco-Friendly Beer Trend
NEWS LINK / GERMANY (October, 2019) -- A 500-year-old brewery in Bavaria, Germany has become an unlikely leader in the eco-friendly beer making movement.The Hofmühl Brewery, founded by Catholic bishops in 1492, has reduced its carbon footprint by 40% over the past two...
12 Breweries Combatting Water Waste With Beer
STORY LINK / USA (June, 2019) -- On average, it takes 7 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of beer. That number can easily climb to 10 gallons at less efficient breweries. Add in the rest of the supply chain, such as barley and hop growing, and that number increases...
The Beer, Booze, And Bread Community Is Organizing a ‘Northeast Grain Shed’
If you watched the Super Bowl maybe you caught the Michelob beer commercial that begins with a shot of a lone farmer standing in a field. His grain silos are looming in the distance. Then the voiceover tells beer drinkers how their dollars can help conventional...
Worthy Brewing Celebrates Earth Day with Tenmile Dry Hopped Lager
PR / BEND, OREGON (April, 2020) -- With Earth Day approaching, Worthy Brewing is proud to announce the release of Tenmile Dry Hopped Lager. If ever a brewery has a defining moment, with a beer whose flavor, packaging and art embody its mission, this is The One....
New Zealand Brewery Toasts Wind Power With New Ale
NEWS LINK / NEW ZEALAND (September, 2019) -- New Zealand-based clean power producer Meridian and local brewery Garage Project have launched Turbine Pale Ale to celebrate certification for renewable electricity supplying the brewery. The collaboration between Garage...
Top 100 Solar-Powered Breweries
STORY LINK / USA (August, 2019) -- What's better than a cold one underneath the scorching hot sun? A cold one brewed with POWER from the sun! That was the opening line of our first overview of solar-powered beer breweries, back in 2015. A modest Top 40 overview at...
Snack Maker Innovating With Brewers Spent Grain
STORY LINK / SAN FRANCISCO (September, 2019) — Expect to see more food products on shelves formulated with the leftover grain from beermaking. Brewers’ spent grain adds nutrition, flavor and functionality to a range of sweet and savory applications, said Dan Kurzrock,...
These New England Breweries Are Replacing Plastic Can Carriers With Eco-Friendly Ones
When Russell Voss and his business partner Chris Ventimiglia opened NU Brewery last June, they wanted to do things a little differently. Launching with a light lager as their flagship beer was one way, and running a truly sustainable operation was definitely...
Maui, Mad Mole, Canal Park Breweries win “Brews From the Sun” Awards
NEWS STORY / USA (June, 2019) -- Breweries are going solar! This year 44 breweries competed in the second annual Brews from the Sun competition, with more than 13,000 people voting on their favorite breweries that are powered by solar. The Brews from the...