Green Beer
March 19th, 2006 by owenamThis is not a St. Patrick’s Day post.
Amanda returned from Arizona singing the praises of Fat Tire (made by the New Belgium Brewery), which she discovered she like despite disliking beer in general. Wired Magazine pointed out some other reasons for liking New Belgium’s beers (2nd half of the article). These guys are definitely smarter than the average brewer:
New Belgium completed installation of its own process water treatment facility … bacteria feed on the organic waste and leave the water clean enough to pump back into the building for reuse in cleaning… .
Another remarkable byproduct of this process is the production of methane … We then capture this methane and run it back into the building where it fires a co-generator… .
If a little brewery in Colorado can do this, why not Anheuser-Busch? Oh, right. I knew that. Thanks, Google.