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![Drink Local Beer! - For all those Craft beer lovers out there, I’m glad to you see you are on the right track. However, I want to talk about something very important about craft beer that often gets over looked. Buying local. Here are three important aspects of buying locally made beer.
First and most obvious, keeping the money local. When you buy local, the money stays within your economy and recirculates helping pay both your neighbor’s salary and your own, as well as create new jobs. Also, all the micro-brewers that I have experience with do a large amount of work with local charities to help improve the communities around them. So if nothing else, drink local for the kids.
Second, and in my mind most important, it helps grow craft beer. When you consider that the Big 3 (Bud, Coors, Miller) are all now owned by non-US companies it makes even more sense to buy local. What’s worse is now that craft beer is a rapidly growing industry the macro-brewers are starting to disguise their beers as “craft” beer. Here is a list of beers made by the Big 3 that you might think are made by the little guys: Ziegenbock, Blue Moon, Killians, Leinenkugel, Peroni, and recently Goose Island sold to InBev. So, do a little research and make sure your “craft beer” is actually made by a LOCAL micro-brewer!
Lastly, the environmental impact. It’s obvious that locally made beer doesn’t have to be shipped all the way across the country, thereby having a smaller carbon footprint. Also, a lot of the local breweries try to use local ingredients, which not only promotes local jobs even more than discussed above, but all cuts down on the environmental impact of shipping ingredients.
I hope I have convinced you that putting in a little extra money and research is worth the effort to support your local breweries. Here is a list of Texas Breweries in no particular order (Sorry for those of you not in Texas, PM me and I’ll try to refer you to some breweries in your area):
Real Ale, Saint Arnold, Rahr, Southern Star, Independence, Ranger Creek, Jester King, Live Oak. If you live in Austin, walk down the street and you will probably find a local brewer. I will try to do a write up about each of these breweries over the coming weeks. CHEERS TO GOOD BEERS!
For some related articles check out the links below.
http://beeradvocate.com/articles/526
http://practicallygreen.com/drink-locally-brewed-beer
Picture Taken from [http://www.sawtoothbrewery.com/]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr8225tQba1r0x4vno1_r1_400.jpg)
Drink Local Beer! - For all those Craft beer lovers out there, I’m glad to you see you are on the right track. However, I want to talk about something very important about craft beer that often gets over looked. Buying local. Here are three important aspects of buying locally made beer.
First and most obvious, keeping the money local. When you buy local, the money stays within your economy and recirculates helping pay both your neighbor’s salary and your own, as well as create new jobs. Also, all the micro-brewers that I have experience with do a large amount of work with local charities to help improve the communities around them. So if nothing else, drink local for the kids.
Second, and in my mind most important, it helps grow craft beer. When you consider that the Big 3 (Bud, Coors, Miller) are all now owned by non-US companies it makes even more sense to buy local. What’s worse is now that craft beer is a rapidly growing industry the macro-brewers are starting to disguise their beers as “craft” beer. Here is a list of beers made by the Big 3 that you might think are made by the little guys: Ziegenbock, Blue Moon, Killians, Leinenkugel, Peroni, and recently Goose Island sold to InBev. So, do a little research and make sure your “craft beer” is actually made by a LOCAL micro-brewer!
Lastly, the environmental impact. It’s obvious that locally made beer doesn’t have to be shipped all the way across the country, thereby having a smaller carbon footprint. Also, a lot of the local breweries try to use local ingredients, which not only promotes local jobs even more than discussed above, but all cuts down on the environmental impact of shipping ingredients.
I hope I have convinced you that putting in a little extra money and research is worth the effort to support your local breweries. Here is a list of Texas Breweries in no particular order (Sorry for those of you not in Texas, PM me and I’ll try to refer you to some breweries in your area):
Real Ale, Saint Arnold, Rahr, Southern Star, Independence, Ranger Creek, Jester King, Live Oak. If you live in Austin, walk down the street and you will probably find a local brewer. I will try to do a write up about each of these breweries over the coming weeks. CHEERS TO GOOD BEERS!
For some related articles check out the links below.
http://beeradvocate.com/articles/526
http://practicallygreen.com/drink-locally-brewed-beer
Picture Taken from [http://www.sawtoothbrewery.com/]
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