Organic Beer

Brewing your own beer at home could be a relatively link option. Even if you regularly buy beer in cans, you are still saving the transportation miles involved in shopping those cans all over the place. Check out beer-making tutorial over at link.

And one more thing that i want to share with you is you can collect glass beer bottles at home and from friends, or even pick up a few at the recycling center, sterilize them and reuse them over and over, getting much more than just one use from them before they are recycled.

In Ontario there is Mill St. Organic Lager. It’s certified organic. I was excited to try it but found it pretty disappointing. It wasn’t awful, in fact it tasted like a very ordinary light beer – like Canadian or Bud. Which for me is not worth the calories.

I had some great organic wine at the Wine and Food show a few months back and have since found it in the liquor store. It’s a California Cabernet Sauvignon – Bonterra Vineyards. I really enjoyed it, and have bought more since. The label said it’s made from organic grapes.

Here’s an interview with the founder of Bonterra where he explains the use of the term organic in reference to wines. link

I rather like Mill St. i find it to be a pretty delicious beer.

i find the draught better for that matter.

I think it shows a fair amount of progress when the major beer makers are on the bandwagon. I think that’s great.
As for beer and me, it doesn’t really agree with me so I leave it alone. But, when you’re hoisting your next organic beer, take a swig for me!

Here in Toronto, there is an independent brewery called Mill Street. I tried their organic beer on the weekend and have to say that it was quite enjoyable on a hot day!

Did you say organic BEER? That’s a new one for me, but I guess you can buy just about everything organic these days.

in the UK Honeydew is very popular.. and recently there has been a big advertising campaign. I’ve not tried it yet..

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Yeah, I’ve tried some organic beers in the states and they’re really good! I went to a tasting for Peak brewing company, and let me tell you, their Espresso Amber Ale is intense:eek: It’s dark and slightly bitter, and it contains real coffee, so it gives you a kick. It’s one of the better coffee-beers I’ve had.

Organic hops are pretty hard to come by though as far as I know, so organic brews are pretty expensive unfortunately.

I’ve brewed my own beer before, and it came out pretty good (brown ale – Newcastle style), but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t organic. The packages that the ingredients came in surely had some kind of preservatives.

There are several micro brews that offer organic styles. Many have also been pushing towards powering there breweries by renewable energy. IE New Belgium.

Really?

Where are they based? What kind of renewable energy are they using?

Organic Beer is Made from certified-organic malted barley, hops, and yeast. These ingredients are grown without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides.
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