Yet another reason to drink good beer and homebrew

[Toot]

Environmental impacts

Draught beer's environmental impact can be 68% lower than bottled beer due to packaging differences.[134][135] Home brewing can reduce the environmental impact of beer via less packaging and transportation.[136]

A life cycle study of one beer brand shows that the CO2 emissions from a 6-pack of micro-brew beer is about 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) -- including grain production, brewing, bottling, distribution and waste management.[137] The loss of natural habitat potential from the 6-pack of micro-brew beer is estimated to be 2.5 square meters (26 square feet).[138]

Downstream emissions from distribution, retail, storage and disposal of waste can be over 45% of a bottled micro-brew beer's CO2 emissions.[137]

The use of a refillable jug, reusable bottle or other reusable containers to transport draught beer from a store or a bar (where legal) can reduce the environmental impact of beer consumption (as opposed to buying pre-bottled beer).[139]

Taken from wikipedia "beer"

So drink more home and micro brew!
(maybe preaching to the converted)

[Subrew]

Its the packaging and transportation that gets me! 90% (approx) of beer is water so you are shipping water from source, to brewery, to supermarket, to your home, crazy! So homebrewers get +1 for doing there bit to reduce resourse /transport impact on the water side and +2 if you use rainwater like I do :-)

Now if I could only find a source of NZ malt? that is crazy shipoing MO from the UK :-(

Cheers

Alan