January/February 2009

Sustainability Issue

For the January/February 2009 The New Brewer, we present our Sustainability issue. In this issue, we examine topics such as energy consumption, eco-friendly beer festivals, “green” brands, and the phenomenon of beer gushing.

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Sustainability Issue

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Craft Brewers and Energy Consumption

Craft beer and green energy are now both touted by their mainstream counterparts as the future of their industries. Here’s a look at how they go hand-in-hand.

Sustainability Issue

Featured Stories

Eco-Friendly Beer Festivals

Greg Kitsock

The Great American Beer Festival and a growing number of others are seeking to have a gentler impact on Mother Earth with zero waste and other initiatives.

Can Your Brand Be Green?

Michael Kallenberger

Sustainability is on a lot of people’s minds these days, including brewers. But are sustainability-related issues relevant to us as good citizens, or brand builders?

The Hunt for the Gushing Gremlins

Thomas Kraus-Weyermann

Gushing is not an everyday problem. But when it does strike, seemingly out of nowhere, it is usually a shock–and nobody is quite sure about the causes or the remedies.

BA Packaging Breweries Survey

Pete Johnson

The Brewers Association presents the results of its second operational survey for packaging brewers. How does your brewery stack up against its peers?

A Note From the Editor

Jill Redding, Editor-in-Chief

This issue also includes most of our usual informative departments, plus brewery-generated news about the craft brewing community in the Brew News and Beer Releases sections; and new products and services from the allied trade in Industry Supplier News. In our back-page interview, we highlight Jolly Pumpkin co-founder Ron Jeffries.

Cheers, and we hope you enjoy this issue of The New Brewer.

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