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Beer/Wine/Liquor

Take Your Love of Wine to a New Level at Recycled Cask Hotel

It’s like a oenophile’s wet dream: what could be better than capping off a day of drinking wine in Europe with sleeping in a recycled wine cask? The Hotel de Vrouwe van Stavoren in the Netherlands features four rooms made from gigantic 14,500 liter repurposed wine casks that are cute, quirky and surprisingly roomy.
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Get Your Green Drink On for St. Patty’s Day

Whether you’re heading to the nearest Irish pub or having a round of drinks at home tonight to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, make sure the beer is green. Not literally green, unless that’s your bag – but organic or made in an environmentally responsible facility. Green beer is more popular than ever, which means the [...]

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Australia Gets Tanked with Tequila Biofuel

Creativity is blooming in the world of alternative energy, with people coming up with incredible ways to use what they’ve got handy. We’ve heard of New Zealand transforming pest plants into airplane fuel, Oslo buses running on the power of human waste and Scotland making fuel from whisky. Now, Australian farmers are realizing that agave, [...]

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Scotland Makes Fuel from Whisky

Leave it to Scotland to figure out a way to get renewable energy from the whiskymaking process. The land of whisky connoisseurs will soon have a plant run on energy created from byproducts of the distilling process. The company turning this grand idea into reality is ‘Combination of Rothes Distillers Limited (CoRD), joining up with [...]

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