Redefining Green Beer  

Next 100 has a toast to green breweries - Redefining Green Beer

Adding to the list of breweries going green, Anheuser-Busch today announced that one in seven of its beers made in the U.S. will be brewed using renewable fuel by the end of 2009. The nation's largest brewer is turning to a combination of clean technologies to brew renewably, including biogas from a local landfill, solar and BERS, a technology that turns brewing wastewater into fuel. Once these projects are complete, 10 of Anheuser's Busch's 12 U.S. breweries will be producing renewable fuel.

If craft beer is more your style, you needn't look any further than the über-green brewery Sierra Nevada. This company has it goin' on full-circle style and is aggressively working to achieve 100% energy self generation. Their impressive efforts include incorporating a one megawatt fuel cell system, recycling, heat recovery, CO2 recovery, energy efficiency, water conservation and byproduct recycling. What's more, they're cataloguing their carbon footprint with the California Climate Action Registry and offsetting the emissions associated with their purchased energy through PG&E's stringent ClimateSmart program.