How green is your beer? We’re not talking about that St. Patrick’s Day brew you swilled back in March at some faux Irish pub. We’re wondering how environmentally friendly is your beer?
In the 1990s, Roger Protz attended a dinner where English hop farmers celebrated a successful harvest. When he asked the group about organic hops, his hosts responded with “pop-eyed dismay,” insisting that the demand for organic beer was insignificant, and that organically grown brewing ingredients were of low quality.