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Beerdrinker of the Year

Wynkoop

Have you updated your brew resumé lately? Better do so before 2012 ends because Dec. 31 is the deadline for entering the 2013 Beerdrinker of the Year Contest.  

Chug-a-lug champs need not apply--the 17th annual contest will honor America's most knowledgeable and passionate beer lovers, not the beer belly-iest guzzlers.

The Beerdrinker of the Year Contest is sponsored by Wynkoop Brewery, Colorado's first brewpub and Denver's first craft brewery.

Going Green

Rusty Truck Brewing, Lincoln City, OR

How does the brewery reduce its carbon footprint?
 The byproducts of the brewing process are largely the spent grain, hops, and heated water. The grain is picked up by a local farmer to be used to feed his cattle and pigs. 

What about water used for brewing?
 The brewery is designed to recycle the heated water from the heat converter, which is used to cool the wort before it goes into the fermenter. When this system is finished, the heated water will provide interior heat to the 1,260 sq. ft. second story of the new brewery. Plans for this area include office space and employee housing. It will also provide heat to the interior or planned future 1,200 sq. ft. tasting room. 

What will be the end result?
We will have minimized our impact on the environment by putting waste energy to work, reusing water and recycling the only other byproduct of our brewing, the used malt, for animal feed.

Burn On, Big River, Burn On

Cuyahoga River, June 1969

One of the catalysts for the environmental movement and Clean Water Act forty years ago was the Cuyahoga River fire. The river, which flows through Cleveland, Ohio, was so polluted that it literally caught fire and burned, billowing black smoke into the air.

Randy Newman wrote the satirical "Burn On" about the Cuyahoga River, including it on the classic 1972 album, Sail Away.

 

There's a red moon rising
On the Cuyahoga River
Rolling into Cleveland to the lake

There's a red moon rising
On the Cuyahoga River
Rolling into Cleveland to the lake

There's an oil barge winding
Down the Cuyahoga River
Rolling into Cleveland to the lake

There's an oil barge winding
Down the Cuyahoga River
Rolling into Cleveland to the lake

Cleveland, city of light, city of magic
Cleveland, city of light, you're calling me
Cleveland, even now I can remember
'Cause the Cuyahoga River
Goes smokin' through my dreams

Burn on, big river, burn on
Burn on, big river, burn on
Now the Lord can make you tumble
And the Lord can make you turn
And the Lord can make you overflow
But the Lord can't make you burn

Burn on, big river, burn on
Burn on, big river, burn on

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