Kew Brew is made with varieties of hops grown at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Sales of the beer support Kew's international Millennium Seed Bank Project. Since we're big fans of seed banks, of botanical gardens (which are often now on the frontlines of educating the public about issues of biodiversity - backyard, barnyard or wild) and of beer, we hope some of our UK readers will pop a bottle or two in our stead (and tell us how they like it).
Mill street brewery in Toronto makes a nice organic - it's a bit light, almost watery, but I quite enjoy it and wish it were more widely available, or that others would take up the call (and my $$).
It's available on tap at By the Way Cafe (I love their mediteranian platter with fallafel, though it drives them nuts when I substitute a greek salad).
I second the Mill St. Brew in Toronto. Im lucky enough to live within bicycling distance of the brewery (just east in the Beaches) so I am able to reduce my carbon emissions by not even having it shipped to a pub! My Patio will do :) If it's raining - i drive my hybrid (in mostly electric mode).
Some brews to try if you're on the east coast of the US...
I love Wolaver's, brewed in Middlebury, VT. Their oatmeal stout is to die for - summer or winter! I live in Brooklyn, so I also like to go for local Brooklyn Brewery beers...not organic, but they do use wind energy to power their Williamsburg facility.
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We're fans of drinking for a better world here, whether the beverage in question is palm nut beer, organic wine or better-than-fair-trade coffee. Therefore, we can heartily endorse Kew Brew.
