BeerMenus.com provides the delightful service of letting you know where, in New York City, you can find certain beers.

How does this fit in with GreenGrog? Well, draught beers have a lighter carbon footprint than beers in bottles or cans, so if you’re looking for, say, an Ommegang Witte, you can search BeerMenus.com and find at least four locations where it’s available on draft (and cheaper, actually, than several where it’s only in bottles).

[via Gothamist!]

Tons of people have been sending us links to stories about global warming’s effect on beer lately, especially since a New York City Council Member — James Gennaro, out in Flushing, Queens — is kinda trying to wrangle it into a campaign issue.

What it amounts to is people just reporting the weather-induced hops and grain shortages that have been driving up the industry-side costs for over a year now (and which are finally likely to be passed on to consumers in greater amounts). You can check our video on the matter for some background here.

Well, after a lot of set-up work, GreenGrog.com is here for real. We invite you to check out our feature stories, which you can find under “Feature navigation.” They highlight the dance between sustainability and profitability, the way the hops shortage has affected organic brewers, and of course how home brewing can lead to candy and cleanliness.

Happy reading, and as always, let us know what you think!

GOOD Magazine has a great legend of organic brands and the big-time food processors that own them.

Beer isn’t included on the list, but it raises a similar point we’ve been talking about a lot lately, which is that organic products made by big companies (for example, Anheuiser-Busch’s — or, excuse us, Green Valley Brewing Co.’s — Stone Mill Organic Pale Ale organic brew) won’t often be labeled as being owned by the actual parent corporation, because the buyers in the niche market like buying from what they think is a smaller organic company. Read the rest of this entry »

Beer-bots!! Ale droids! Call them what you want, but we love robots and beer.

And it turns out that Asahi made a limited number of refrigerator robots a couple years ago. They can cool a six pack and then pop open and pour a beer at the press of a button.

Is this sustainable? We don’t know. We just can’t believe we’ve never come across this before.