As local craft breweries sweep the continent, we’d like to highlight one for it’s great green work.

Steam Whistle Brewing, an independent Toronto brewer, has successfully focused on making one beer, a premium Pilsner that everyone can enjoy. They have developed their recipe using only four natural ingredients and have packaged the beer in unique, green glass bottles.

Steam Whistle has a history of ’green thinking’: the Brewery opted out of conventional heating/cooling systems, using instead Enwave’s direct steam and deep water-cooling systems in manufacturing and for the brewery’s climate control; Smart Cars have been added to their service fleet; and the brewery’s heavy green glass bottle enjoys at least twice the number of re-uses as the industry standard brown bottle.

They also plan to continue to ’Green Shift’ by switching to biodegradable beer cups at their outdoor events.

Oh, and it’s tasty too. Check your local beer store!