I hope I’m not too late for a story about green beer! Brooklyn Brewery produces green beer. Not green in colour, but green in the way they power their brewery.

A time-honored tradition on St. Patrick’s Day is to drink green beer. But Brooklyn Brewery won’t partake in the ritual. Instead, the brew pub serves up beer that’s honey-colored or amber gold. In terms of environmental impact, however, its beers are as green as they come.

Brooklyn Brewery, located on Brewer’s Row in Brooklyn, New York, is one of a handful of breweries around the country that uses sustainable energy when producing its beer.

Its choice of method is wind power, which provides 100 percent of the brewery’s energy needs, making the 1,658,000 gallons of beer it produces green year-round. Brooklyn Brewery’s energy bills are 10 percent to 13 percent higher than they would be otherwise, but its operators say leaning on alternative energy just makes sense.

[Via Wired]

Making beer using wind doesn’t come cheap. Brooklyn Brewery spends more than they would with less eco-friendly power, but it is something the socially conscious company has decided to do to be more environment-friendly. It makes me want to try their beer out.