It’s Memorial Day weekend, the un-official beginning of summer and the official beginning of BBQ and beer drinking season. As a sustainability consultant, I encourage clients to constantly evaluate eco friendly alternatives in all areas of their life. So, for those celebrating and also incorporating eco awareness into their Memorial Day holiday, why not give organic beer a try? Here are 5 good reasons:
- It's good for the environment.
- It represents the latest wave of craft brewery movement.
- If you are a beer drinker, then drinking organic beer is aligned with a sustainable lifestyle.
- Your purchase of organic beer supports the growth of sustainable business.
- It tastes great.
Organic brewers, wineries and distilleries set themselves apart by using only non-synthetic substances in production, and working from crops raised without pesticides or petroleum-based fertilizers.
Not sure which organic beers to try? An excellent post, Bottoms up… Organic beer, Wine, Brandy and Vodka offers some organic beer to sample:
- North Coast, a Fort Bragg, California beer sensation that produces a diverse line of impeccable beer, including two superb organics. Cru D’or is a Belgian style dubbel with nicely developed malt flavors and a clean finish. The organic stout, Old Plowshare, is light bodied with hints of chocolate and smoke.
- Foret Organic Saison — a Belgian delight from Brasserie DuPont, the makers of Saison Dupont. Foret is an earthy brew full of peppery banana and biscuits, finishing with the dry spiciness of the illustrious Dupont yeast strain.
- Samuel Smith’s Organic Lager is magnificent; light bodied and smooth, it is definitely one of the most drinkable all-malt lagers available in the local market. Samuel Smith Old Brewery also crafts an Organic Ale that drinks something like their Pure Brewed Lager Beer and an Organic Cider fermented with a wine yeast strain; it’s low carb, gluten free and high in antioxidants.
- From England, there’s Scarecrow, an organic English Pale Ale from Wychwood Brewing, St Peter’s Organic English Ale, and Caledonian Golden Promise, all of which are available at Whole Foods Market.
- German organic offerings include the delectable wheat brew, Edel Weiss, from Schneider Brewery and a slew of Pinkus Mueller varieties - the old Dusseldorf style Munster Alt, a crisp and bready Ur Pils, and a light bodied Hefe-Weizen with delicate wheat and tropical bubblegum righteousness.
- Produced by Portland, Maine’s Shipyard Brewing Company, the Peak Organic line includes a Pale Ale, IPA, Nut Brown Ale, Pomegranate Wheat with Acai, and Espresso Amber Ale — an interesting, lighter bodied take on the coffee beer.
- Other organics from American microbreweries include Eel River Organic Amber, IPA, and Porter, Goose Island Organic Pale Ale, and Fish Tales Ales Organic Amber, Wild Salmon Pale Ale, and Fish Tale IPA.
Before you run to the beer distributor, don't forget to check first with your local brewery. Those sustainability concepts of organic and local come into play here. Reducing beer miles is part of reducing food miles. The very best option is local and organic beer.
Now, I'll drink to that! Happy Memorial Day!
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