Zoinks, I’m on TV, like Twice
Check out this video of me leading a beer tasting and talking about organic beer at Goose Island Brewery in Chicago. Go to lime.com and click on TV. My video should start playing automatically because...
View ArticleWhoops, Make that Three Times
Here’s another TV spot on Lime where I talk more about the issues of sustainability and beer and how a brewpub works. Click on the image below to activate video or click here for the permanent link.
View ArticleGreenpeace Says Beer Drinking “A Convenient Solution” to An Inconvenient Truth
I’m not making this up. It’s just like I say in my book: breweries are innovating renewable energy solutions to global warming. And now Greenpeace has a video with the same message! I posted the one...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Use Thin Glass Bottles for Homebrew
Dave at Via Negativa sent me this instructional video on how to break a glass beer bottle with nothing but some water and your bare hands – without hurting yourself at all. It’s a good lesson in why...
View ArticleMill Street Organic Lager Tasting Video
Le Gourmet TV is now producing video segments on beer. Check out this one where they discuss organic ingredients and taste an Organic lager from Mill Street Brewing in Toronto.
View ArticleCan Beer Craft Community?
(This originally appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of American Brewer magazine.) Much of the mainstream beer marketing works hard to convince consumers that drinking a particular brand leads inevitably...
View ArticleCarrotmob Buys Beer, Gets Liquor Store to Go Green
During her presentation last week at the Craft Brewers Conference, Jenn Orgolini, Director of Sustainability at New Belgium Brewing, discussed a surprise finding in their new study that assessed the...
View ArticleThe Green Bottle Goes to Mexico
The big news today in Big Beer is that Heineken, who also owns Newcastle Brown Ale, bought FEMSA, Mexico’s number two brewing company and owner of Dos Equis, Tecate, Sol and Bohemia. I read the top...
View ArticleDid Beer Drinking Free Masons Build the Pyramids?
In Fermenting Revolution, I wrote about how the pyramids were built on beer. This much has been known for some time now. Not only do many of the pyramids of Egypt have beer chambers and beer offerings...
View ArticleMicrobreweries, Maximum Sustainability – Short Film
Two students at George Washington University recently interviewed me for a short film on sustainability and brewing. I think the result is quite nice. Have a quick look.
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