<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for A tasting of five fall-friendly organic dark brews]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by kmp http://www.grist.org/article/a-cure-for-what-ales-you/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:39:11 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/a-cure-for-what-ales-you/1 Peak Organic

is a small brewer in Portland, ME (therefore you may not be able to get it down in NC) but the Nut Brown Ale is definitely worth searching for - I've been looking for the Maple Oat Ale (speaking of autumnal beers) but haven't found it yet.

In the category of not-organic-but-craft-brewed-autmnal we have Punkin Ale from Dogfish Head.  Most people either love or hate pumpkin ales (I am solidly in the 'love' category) but this one is a fantastic deep brown ale all on it's own, with the subtle, but not too subtle, addition of pumpkin, cloves, nutmeg, etc. I thoroughly enjoyed two of them last night!

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is a small brewer in Portland, ME (therefore you may not be able to get it down in NC) but the Nut Brown Ale is definitely worth searching for - I've been looking for the Maple Oat Ale (speaking of autumnal beers) but haven't found it yet.

In the category of not-organic-but-craft-brewed-autmnal we have Punkin Ale from Dogfish Head.  Most people either love or hate pumpkin ales (I am solidly in the 'love' category) but this one is a fantastic deep brown ale all on it's own, with the subtle, but not too subtle, addition of pumpkin, cloves, nutmeg, etc. I thoroughly enjoyed two of them last night!

]]> Comment #2 by mskellyann http://www.grist.org/article/a-cure-for-what-ales-you/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:27:47 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/a-cure-for-what-ales-you/2 Orlio

Orlio is another organic, Vermont craft-beer company.  Their black lager is as close to the perfect fall/winter drink as I think it's possible to be.

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Orlio is another organic, Vermont craft-beer company.  Their black lager is as close to the perfect fall/winter drink as I think it's possible to be.

]]> Comment #3 by delpadre http://www.grist.org/article/a-cure-for-what-ales-you/ Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:42:59 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/a-cure-for-what-ales-you/3 What about the Northwest?

Jeez, get somebody from the NW to conduct a proper review. It's micro-brew heaven up here.

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Jeez, get somebody from the NW to conduct a proper review. It's micro-brew heaven up here.

]]> Comment #4 by bhcarmichael http://www.grist.org/article/a-cure-for-what-ales-you/ Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:40:29 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/a-cure-for-what-ales-you/4 Drink beer - mostly local

Great story here about organic beers.

I agree with the first commenter. I grew up in Portland, Maine, and like Peak Organic. Shipyard Brewing makes my favorite beer, though they're not explicitly organic.

In writing an article recently about the search for sustainable beer, I heard a lot of brewers say that the best advice was not to drink organic, but to drink local. In part because the organic hops and barley market, though growing, is still relatively small, though primarily because emissions from transportation, and bottling, loom large in a beer's carbon life cycle.

If anyone's interested, I just wrote a posted a story about the emissions from transporting beer. You can find it here:

http://www.onearth.org/node/807

Bottoms up,
Ben

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Great story here about organic beers.

I agree with the first commenter. I grew up in Portland, Maine, and like Peak Organic. Shipyard Brewing makes my favorite beer, though they're not explicitly organic.

In writing an article recently about the search for sustainable beer, I heard a lot of brewers say that the best advice was not to drink organic, but to drink local. In part because the organic hops and barley market, though growing, is still relatively small, though primarily because emissions from transportation, and bottling, loom large in a beer's carbon life cycle.

If anyone's interested, I just wrote a posted a story about the emissions from transporting beer. You can find it here:

http://www.onearth.org/node/807

Bottoms up,
Ben

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