Good Libations

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December 2007/January 2008
By Megan Phelps 
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Brew Your Own!

If you enjoy good beer and wine, it’s surprisingly simple to make your own. Brewing and winemaking require minimal special equipment to get started, and when you make your own you can make any style you like and try out local or organic ingredients. Supplies are available by mail order, and there are numerous Web forums, brew club meetings and other gathering places for homebrewers and winemakers.

Related Books

The Complete Joy of Homebrewing, Third Edition by Charles Papazian
From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine by Jeff Cox

Web Sites

www.homebrewtalk.com
Check out this site for more discussion on beer and wine making.

Wine and beer articles from Mother Earth News 

General Brewing Supplies

Beer & Wine Hobby 
155 New Boston St., Unit T, Woburn, MA 01801; (781) 933-8818

Old West Homebrew Supply 
229 East Pikes Peak Ave., Colorado Springs, CO  80903; (800) 458-2739

Organic Ingredients

Seven Bridges Cooperative 
(organic ingredients for beer), 325A River St., Santa Cruz, CA  95060; (800) 768-4409

Diamond Organics
(organic juices for wine), 1272 Highway 1, Moss Landing, CA  95039; (888) 674-2642

Solar Wine & Wind-Powered Beer

Selling organic products is one way to go green, but breweries and wineries aren’t stopping there. Another place breweries and wineries are on the cutting edge of eco-friendly practices is by exploring renewable energy. New Belgium Brewing Co. has made the commitment to buying their electricity from wind power, and celebrated by naming one of their beers Loft. Sierra Nevada is also experimenting with clean energy by powering their brewery through an energy efficient setup that includes a fuel cell. Wineries are getting into the act, too. For example, at Frog’s Leap winery solar panels in their vineyards generate more electricity than the winery consumes.

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