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July 18, 2008
18:26
Beer and Climate Change
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(This originally appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of American Brewer.) Cash-conscious customers are well aware of rising beer prices. But carbon-conscious consumers realize this is linked to the world’s expanding appetite for energy. Given the industrial economy’s heavy reliance on fossil fuel energy, it follows that brewing costs are escalating as oil hits record highs [...]
18:07
The Ultimate in Green Beer Packaging
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(This originally appeared as the Guest Editorial in the June/July 2008 issue of Mid-Atlantic Brewing News.) Editor’s Note [Greg Kitsock]: It might seem like hyperbole to call brewpubs an “endangered species,” inasmuch as their numbers and output are still increasing. But with the economy tanking and the price or raw ingredients soaring, brewpubs are very vulnerable. [...]
17:27
Beer Activist Talks Fair Trade on KPFT Next Tuesday
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Tune in next Tuesday, Noon-1pm Central time, to the Open Journal on Houston’s Pacifica radio affiliate KPFT when host Tim O’Brien (that’s my bro) interviews Chris O’Brien (that’s me) about responsible purchasing, fair trade, and sweatfree apparel. Maybe we’ll even talk about beer, who knows?
June 17, 2008
21:54
Two Days ’til the National Homebrewers Conference
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Are you going to the National Homebrewers Conference? Me too! Seven Bridges is sponsoring the conference so I’ll be staffing the booth most of the time - please stop on by and say hello. We’ll have special deals on organic homebrew supplies, I’ll be signing books, and we’ll be taking registrations for the second annual [...]
June 16, 2008
22:17
Sierra Nevada Goes Organic
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I visited the Sierra Nevada brewery last fall and spoke with founder and owner Ken Grossman about their sustainability efforts. Given the limited role sustainability plays in the company’s marketing, I was pleasantly surprised to learn how far the brewery has already traveled down the road to sustainability. Then in April I had the distinct [...]
June 14, 2008
10:13
North American Organic Brewers Festival
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The world’s largest gathering of organic brewers occurs in just a couple weeks over on the left coast in my favorite city, Portland, OR. This year’s North American Organic Beer Festival promises to showcase 75 organic beers and lagers plus live music, other sustainability-oriented vendors and plenty of local and organic food. Sounds like heaven to [...]
June 13, 2008
11:28
Organic Beer Happy Hour
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The big news today was the proposed hostile takeover of Anheuser Busch by rival InBev. But the Washington Post ran a second, more reassuring piece on beer today that helped turn my frown upside-down. Busboys and Poets, the Washington area bookstore-cafe with locations in Shirlington and near U St., is running an “Organic Beer Happy Hour” [...]
10:51
Will Bud Become Belgian?
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InBev tries to get in bed with Anheuser-Busch Rumors started earlier this week that InBev, already one of the world’s largest brewing concerns, was thirsty for a mega-merger with Anheuser-Busch, makers of the world’s best known industrial light lager, or what most of us quaintly call “Bud.” Then yesterday the rumor became real. InBev offered to acquire [...]
June 06, 2008
11:40
UK’s First Carbon-Neutral Beer?
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Adnams claims to have produced the U.K.’s first carbon-neutral beer. The beer is a light ale called East Green, named after the village common in front of the brewery. The summer issue of American Brewer contains a story I wrote about New Belgium’s recent carbon-lifecycle assessment of their flagship Fat Tire amber ale. The same conclusions [...]
June 02, 2008
21:51
Vegetarian, Organic Beer Dinner
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After last month’s successful pair-up at Magnolias Mill, I’m happy to announce that I’ll be joining Clipper City Brewing again for another beer dinner celebrating their newly organic line of Oxford Ales. In addition to being a great excuse to get out and drink some organic beers from a local brewery (while listening to me yap [...]
May 31, 2008
14:23
National Homebrewers Conference - See You There!
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Seven Bridges is proud to be sponsoring the 30th annual National Homebrewers Conference in Cincinatti, OH, June 19-21, 2008. I’d like to personally invite all homebrewers, Beer Activists, and friends to visit our booth there to say hello, chat about organic beer, and get a signed copy of Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and [...]
May 23, 2008
14:03
Seven Bridges Organic Homebrew Champion to Brew Batch with Otter Creek/Wolavers
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Press Release from Otter Creek/Wolavers Friday, May 23, 2008 Middlebury, VT - The winner of a National Organic Homebrew Competition will collect on his prize this Saturday when he brews a batch of beer at Otter Creek Brewing and Wolaver’s organic ales in Middlebury, VT. Richard Lawrence of North Falmouth, MA won the 2007 competition sponsored by [...]
May 21, 2008
17:54
Clipper City Organic Beer Dinner & Book Signing at Magnolias - Last Chance for Tickets
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Get your tickets now - only a few seats remain for the Clipper City Organic Beer Dinner and Fermenting Revolution Book Signing tomorrow at Magnolias at the Mill in Purcellville, VA. Click the cartoon below for more details.
May 13, 2008
22:26
Flying Dogs on the Attack
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They can smell your fear. The dogs, that is. The fear grips after the realization that the weakest mutt in the pack barks a snarling 8.5% alcohol by volume and it’s called a Tripel. Yes, the new Kerberos Tripel is actually the lightest beer in Flying Dog’s new Canis Major Mixed Four Pack. I’m hoping to [...]
May 11, 2008
18:48
One week ’til Savor, an American Craft Beer & Food Experience
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Move over wine, here comes craft beer. Savor is America’s first modern national event aiming to elevate beer to a seat at the grown-ups table of high cuisine. For as long as anyone can remember, beer has been the pedestrian beverage that knows its place: the bar, the barbecue grill, and the front porch after cutting [...]
May 07, 2008
23:01
Organic Beer Dinner at Magnolias
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Mark your calender and reserve your tickets now for the Clipper City beer dinner at Magnolias in Purcellville, Virginia on Thursday, May 22 featuring Oxford Organic Beers, brewers from Clipper City, and me talking about organic beers. The details: Oxford Organic Beer Dinner and Book Signing WHAT: Clipper City Organic beer dinner WHEN: 6-7pm meet the brewers, 7pm dinner, [...]
22:53
There’s a Tinge of Green in the Glass
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Greg Kitsock writes today in his Washington Post column about the growing interest in organic beers. His article begins: “All beers were organic 100 years ago,” says Christopher Mark O’Brien, Silver Spring-based author of “Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World. He goes on to announce the launch of Clipper City’s newly organic Oxford [...]
April 29, 2008
0:04
Drink, Don’t Drive
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My mom sent me this photo today. I love my mom.
April 25, 2008
16:43
Carrotmob Buys Beer, Gets Liquor Store to Go Green
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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 lifecycle carbon impact of a six pack of Fat Tire. More than half the greenhouse gas emissions from their flagship beer comes from the refrigeration [...]
16:11
Do Pub Closures Kill Community?
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The front page of today’s Washington Post contains a somber story about mass closings of rural pubs in Ireland. What could be causing the closure of these venerable community institutions in Ireland of all places, the emerald of world pub culture? Prosperity, so they say. (Click image for Washington Post video) Ireland’s booming economy is providing younger folks [...]
15:58
Can Beer Craft Community?
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(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 to good times with friends and family. Beer is a social beverage, so it is understandable that marketers strive to evoke the fellowship of friendly gatherings [...]
April 22, 2008
0:06
Celebrate Earth Day with Beer
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I just returned from five days in San Diego at the Craft Brewers Conference. Over the next few days I hope to post a bit of what I learned there. But first I want to celebrate Earth Day with a beer that’s better than most for people and the planet. Reunion ‘08 is the result of [...]
April 08, 2008
21:36
Hell, Heaven, and Organic Beer
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Some days everything in the world feels just right. Today started out the other way - like we’re doomed to make the same mistakes over and over. The news in the Washington Post was even more depressing than usual: mass rapes in the Congo, budget crises in the state governments, Mugabe continuing to jockey for [...]
April 07, 2008
21:21
Beer, Bands, and Belly Dancers on Earth Day in Atlanta
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For readers in Atlanta looking for something to drink, I mean do, on Earth Day, check out SweetWater Brewing’s 420 Festival. Bands, beer, and a good cause. Who can argue with that? Oh, and last year they had a troupe of belly dancers too! According to a press release from the company, SweetWater also helps campaign [...]
April 06, 2008
20:11
Biere de Garde Dog Needed
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It’s happened more than once. I have a beer for review or that I am saving for something special. Then I have some people over and forget to put that beer away properly. Next thing you know someone is drinking that beer. That’s fine, I’ll get over it, except that it always seems to be someone [...]
15:44
Savoring the Bitter and the Sweet
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We humans have a penchant for both the bitter and the sweet. Beer, for example, is a naturally sweet drink that people have craved since the earliest known civilizations in northern China and Mesopotamia ten thousand years ago (and probably much longer). Beer is produced when water breaks down the starches in grains into simple sugars [...]
March 23, 2008
21:40
Awakening the Best in the Human Spirit
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That’s what the Rhinebeck, NY-based Omega Institute strives to do. And this coming September they’ll show how organic homebrewing is one path to such an awakening when I’ll be offering a two night, two-day intensive course in beer culture, sustainability and brewing. From the course listing in their catalog: During the past three decades, beer drinkers and [...]
14:48
Some Guys Have All the Luck
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Terry Bishop is a lucky bastard. First of all, he runs his own business, Bishop Brand, selling punk rock records, books and movies out of his basement. Okay, so that’s not all just about luck. He probably works his ass off and barely eeks out a living. But, he’s also lucky because he lives about five minutes [...]
12:06
Brew Organic Beer and Roast Organic/Fair Trade Coffee at Home
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Many of my regular readers know that I am part owner of a company called Seven Bridges Cooperative. We sell all organic supplies for home beer-brewing and home coffee roasting (also fair trade). We have a store in Santa Cruz, CA and we do a bustling mailorder business. In the past few years we’ve also [...]
March 06, 2008
20:10
Organic Beer, Session #13 Roundup
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On March 7, 2008 people all over the beer blogosphere are writing about organic beer. This is a roundup of all those posts. It’s part of a monthly group beer blogging event called The Session. The theme for this month’s Session is “Organic Beer” and I’m happy to be your host. Pull up a stool, [...]
March 04, 2008
21:32
A Brewpub in Takoma Park, MD?
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Here is grassroots beer activism at its best. A couple citizens in Takoma Park, Maryland (the neighborhood next to mine, and where my office is located) started a petition asking people to pledge support for what I’d call a “beer-positive” venue in the space of a closed-down restaurant in downtown Takoma Park. Their Takoma Pledge website says: If [...]
February 28, 2008
19:59
Session #13 Reminder: Organic Beer, Friday, March 7
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One week until Session #13. The theme for this Session is Organic Beer. The Short Version The Session is a monthly group beer-blogging event. To participate, just publish a blog post about organic beer by next Friday, March 7. Then let me know that you’ve blogged (by commenting here or on the original announcement post, or using [...]
February 23, 2008
22:20
Origin Ale, Made with the Seeds of Hades
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According to mythology, Persephone ruled as the Queen of Hades when Pluto, God of the Dead, absconded with her for the nether world. Persephone’s mother was Demeter, the goddess of grain. Demeter’s Roman equivalent is Ceres, the goddess whose name gave us the word ‘cereal’ and the Latin root word for beer yeast, ‘cerevisiae.’ Being the [...]
February 17, 2008
22:15
West Virginia Organic Hop Farm
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Bryan George at Brykar Ridge farm in Spencer, West Virginia emailed me inquiring if I knew folks who might be interested in contracting for organic hops. I bet he’ll find some takers so I’m posting his solicitation here on the blog. Basically, just contact him to start a conversation about varieties and volumes. He is currently [...]
20:16
Mississippi Tries to Pop the Cap
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Mississippians for Economic and Beverage Advancement (MEBA) have crafted a bill to allow brewers to craft quaffs with as much as 17% alcohol by volume. That’s up from the current 5% ABV limit. But according to sources inside MEBA, beer distributor lobbyists in the pocket of big Bud (Anheuser-Busch) have orders to kill the bill. Click [...]
19:46
Obama Beer
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Drinking beer and talking politics. Two great past times that taste great together. That is until I read that I live in a so-called “wine track” state. That’s what Thomas Schaller, associate professor of political science at University of Maryland, called Maryland when he grouped it together with California, New Jersey, and Connecticut, as one of [...]
February 10, 2008
17:39
New ‘Green’ Brewery in Beaufort, South Carolina
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Seems like everyone’s catching the green train these days! I can hardly keep up with all the ‘green’ beer news anymore. That’s a good thing, although it does raise the question of just what ‘green’ really means and who, if anyone, is defining it. Brewer’s Brewing, a new brewpub in Beaufort, South Carolina has a link [...]
February 05, 2008
23:43
Clipper City’s New Oxford Organic Ales
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Hugh Sisson at the Bawlmer-based Clipper City Brewing has announced that he’ll be converting his Oxford beer line to be USDA Certified Organic. The Oxford line currently sports a hefeweizen and a raspberry wheat. The funny thing is that I actually talked to Hugh a little over two years ago about whether he’d be willing to [...]
23:01
Sustainable Beer Haiku
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Captain Hops over at Beer Haiku Daily posted this little ditty today in honor of next months beer-blogging Session on organic beer: toasting mother earth pure sustainable brewing now and tomorrow I gotta say, I love the fact that this guy writes a haiku on beer every day. Okay, well, some days he publishes haiku from his readers, but [...]
22:20
Beer U.
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Last minute beer activist event alert. This Thursday night I’ll be giving a talk in Athens, OH on the campus of Ohio University, sponsored by the Sustainable Living Organization. Details as follows: WHAT: Me talking about the two things I love most: drinking beer & saving the world. Come on out and get a signed copy of [...]
February 03, 2008
21:51
Sustainability at the Craft Brewers Conference 2008
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Back in 2004 when Fermenting Revolution was just a twinkle in my eye, I dreamed that one day sustainability would be on the agenda of the brewing industry. So wasn’t I giddy with beer activist pride when Brewers Association Director Paul Gatza recently contacted me to enlist my help with a sustainability-themed track at the [...]
18:55
Savor the Beer and Food in Washington, DC
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Tickets go on sale online tomorrow for Savor, a first-of-its-kind beer and food event featuring pairings of haute cuisine from Federal City Caterers and craft beer from 48 different breweries. The event unfolds in three separate sessions, each limited to 700 attendees. Brewery booths will feature one or two specially selected beers served by the brewers [...]
February 02, 2008
14:09
The Topic for Session #13 Is Organic Beer
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Beer Activist is proud to host Session #13 on March 7, 2008. The topic is “organic beer.” Participants As usual, rules for The Session are minimal. Simply publish a post related to organic beer. Then email me or add a comment on this post to let me know that you’ve published a post. I’ll gather them up [...]
January 30, 2008

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