Tag: Beer

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  Homemade Chicken Coop with Beer Can Shingles Was Built in 10 Hours for $40

  A chicken coop in North Carolina shows just how much you can do with discarded building materials.

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  Bottle Belts Hold Wine, Beer and Other Things on Your Bike

  Walnut Studiolo used recycled materials and leather to make classy bike accessories.

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  Brewers Embrace Urban Hops from Backyard Farmers

  Independent breweries in London may start buying hops from allotments, backyard farmers and anyone who will grow them.

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  Savvy Sustainable Practices at California's Bison Brewery are as Good as the Chocolate Stout

  One of the most highly touted green craft brewers around, Bison Brewery delivers alternative flavors like Honey Basil Ale and Fall Gingerbread Ale, in addition to the award-winning Chocolate Stout.

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  Happy 77th Birthday, Canned American Beer

  Yet another history of the beer can that misses the point: Canned beer isn't about convenience, it is about corporatization

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  UPDATE: Buy More Beer! Saturday is National Growler Day

  Growlers are a great way to enjoy local craft beers in reusable containers. This Friday is National Growler Day. Let's celebrate!

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  Ask Pablo: What Is The Greenest Booze?

  Ask Pablo answers: What's the greenest kind of booze we can drink this holiday season?

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  White House Brews Its Own Beer

  If you've heard anything about Medal of Honor winner Sgt. Dakota Meyer you know that he single-handedly gives you more faith in the human race. He saved nearly a dozen Marines and two dozen Afghan soldiers by risking his life and

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  Anheuser-Busch InBev Recycles Water for Public Housing in China

  Anheuser-Busch InBev, the largest brewer in the world, says that it has been recycling water since March at its flagship factory in China to support local public housing,

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  Local Colorado Brewery Transports Kegs via Tricycle

  When Shannon and Colin Westcott decided to start Equinox Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, they wanted it to be a local, green operation. And that meant no keg deliveries by car or truck. So to save

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  From 72 Recycled Beer Cans Comes a Sweet Surfboard

  In March, I wrote about a very cool project making surfboards from ocean trash. Now, here's another original way to ride the waves: on a surfboard made from 72 recycled beer cans. The simply named Beer Can Surfboard

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  Facial Hair FTW: Grow a Beer Beard and Save Water

  Thanks to the King of Beers. Budweiser has given men another excuse for not shaving, and growing a beard. Let's extend this to any beer, or any reason, for growing a beard and saving water. Like growing a beard for locally made

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  Best of Green: Food and Health

  When it comes to the issues that we cover every day on TreeHugger, those relating to food and health have a unique impact on our lives; after all, we all have to eat, every day. While that creates different challenges and opportunities across different

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  Beer as a Metaphor for Sustainability

  As an occasional homebrewer myself, I have been known to muse on what brewing beer can teach us about living green, but beer advocate and American University's Director of Sustainability Chris O'Brien is streets ahead of me. Back in 2007, Siel got

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  Spotlight on Two of Canada's Greenest Breweries

  A lot of people were excited to read about Magic Hat fueling the brewing process with fuel produced by its own waste, and a reader wrote in to share another brewery that has green merits also worth highlighting: British Columbia-based Driftwood

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  Magic Hat Fuels Brewing Process With Beer Waste

  There's a lot that breweries can do—and are doing—to green their facilities. Some are easy, anyone-can-do-this steps like sending spent grains to local farmers. Others are innovative tricks that no one else has tried before.

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  Chautauqua Revival in Brooklyn, Coming Soon!

  Derek Denckla, as part of his FarmCity efforts, is hosting a series of food related events at 61 Local Public House in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. 61 Local is a new establishment, dedicated to locally crafted food and beer. The series is

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  Organic Beer Must Be Brewed With Organic Hops (Because it Wasn't Before)

  The USDA has announced after much grassroot support for the change, that organic beer most be brewed with organic hops, according to a story on EcoCentric. One would beg to question why beer, which is traditionally made of just water, hops,