sustainability – Your Beer Show

Craft Brewers Make Beer With Recycled Water for Competition

March 31, 2017

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via NBC San Diego by Brie Stimson and Alex Presha It’s about time someone created a competition that brings environmentalism and beer drinking together. The Pure Brew San Diego Beer Competition, held at the Westin in downtown Sunday evening, pitted 15 different craft beers against one another – the catch is they’re all made of […]

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Beer: What’s Good For Cattle

March 21, 2017

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via Illinois State University by Kevin Bersett Humans are not the only mammals with a taste for fermented barley. Farmers have long fed cattle the spent grain leftover at the end of the brewing process. The dark, mushy beer by-product is considered a cheap and nutritious supplement to a cow’s regular corn-based diet. Illinois State […]

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This Startup Turns Breweries’ Leftovers Into Granola Bars

February 7, 2017

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via Fortune by Chris Joslin and Laura Entis “We do things a little differently here,” says Dan Kurzrock, the co-founder and “executive grain officer” of ReGrained, a San Francisco-based artisanal granola startup. In some ways, that’s true. The company’s premise – taking used malt from urban craft breweries and fashioning them into granola bars with […]

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Sustainable Tips for Craft Breweries

January 14, 2017

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When you think craft beer (besides thinking “OMG! SO GOOD!”), you may also be thinking “sustainability”. Sustainability is a theme often linked to craft breweries. Sourcing local ingredients and supplying local enthusiasts in and of themselves are sustainable actions. Here’s a few other ideas compiled from many brewers. Maybe some of these will improve YOUR […]

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Saltwater Brewery Develops Fish-Friendly Can Ring-Holders

January 13, 2017

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Saltwater Brewery of Delray Beach, Fl, founded in December 2013 by a team of local Floridian surfers, fishermen and “people who love the sea”, has developed edible ring-holders for their six-packs of beer. Yep, you read it right. Ring-holders that fish, birds, turtles and other marine life can eat. They’re 100% biodegradable, and made from […]

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