Hermit Thrush Brewery’s Brattlebeer Credit: Courtesy of Hermit Thrush Brewery

On Tuesday, April 17, members of Vermont’s Green Brewery Cohort gathered at Magic Hat Brewing‘s South Burlington Artifactory to discuss recent efforts to green up their brewing operations. The newly formed group of Vermont breweries — including Magic Hat, Mill River Brewing, Hermit Thrush Brewery, 14th Star Brewing, Whetstone Station Restaurant and Brewery, and Northshire Brewery, among others — is working in collaboration with the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation and Efficiency Vermont to decrease their carbon footprints by at least 5 percent by 2020.


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Hannah Palmer Egan was a Seven Days food writer from 2014-2019. She was a 2017 James Beard Journalism Award finalist for her coverage of Vermont's food and agriculture industries, and received food writing awards from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia....