On St. Patrick’s Day, nothing could be greener than a little green beer. The Sierra Club has a list of 5 eco beers, and I’ve added 5 more, to give you a list of the top 10 Green Beers you can drink to celebrate St. Patrick and Mother Earth.
1. O stands for Orlio and Organic. Orlio’s beer is 100% organic. Their organic seal means they meet the standards of both the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) and the Vermont Organic Farmers. O’Really? Yes, Really!
2. New Belgium, which brings you the popular “Fat Tire” beer is based in in Ft. Collins, Colorado and, in 1998 was the first U.S. brewery to harness energy from wind power. Employees even volunteered to contribute to help pay for the green switch. New Belgium also recycles “waste” products into grain and cattle feed, and keg caps into table surfaces. And they use motion sensors on the lights and evaporative cooling in their new packaging hall.
3. Sierra Nevada in California, uses four 250-kilowatt co-generation fuel cell power units to supply electric power and heat to the brewery and produce the steam needed boiling the beer and other heating needs. In 2006, Sierra Nevada recycled 33,738 tons of materials –97.8 percent of their total waste, which may explain why they’ve won a WRAP Award (Waste Reduction Awards Program) from the State of California every year since 2001. They’ve even come with a system to reuse most of the CO2 produced during the natural fermentation. And Sierra Nevada incentivizes being green, rewarding employees for reducing their emissions by riding their bikes to work.
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