Google bees help make new Google beer
In partnership with the Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, tech giant creates a new beer using local and global ingredients.
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great more alcohol, just what the world needs
Google is into everything now, cars, bees, beer, cell-phone, group discounts, etc. All they need to add is porn production
This is such a GREAT idea! I wish they would send samples thru the mail LOL!
I'm puzzled: why is this a "green" story, when the ingredients for this beer are being shipped in from every continent on the planet? This hardly qualifies as a resource-responsible endeavor. I'd be much more impressed if Google locallyproduced not only the honey, but also the hops and grain and other ingredients needed. As it stands, this is a testament to global excess.
Google is one of the most environmentally hostile companies on the planet. Do you know how much power a data center draws? Do you know that most of Google's data centers are powered by fossil fuels? The backup batteries are full of environmentally hazardous chemicals, the backup generators use diesel fuel to operate.
Google burns through more fossil fuels each month that many small countries. Don't every think they are environmentally friendly.
Research some facts.
Forget beer, they should be using that honey to make MEAD!!! Mead is honey and water and yeast, fermented for around 8 or 9 months, and the resulting wine (called mead) is more delicious than any beer ever made.
Mead is the oldest known alcoholic beverage in the world, and is the root of words like "medicine", AND... it's the reason for the invention of the word "honeymoon". In the good old days, newly married couples were sent off with enough mead to last a month. Reports of pregnancy.... More
Mead is good, but nothing beats great micro brewed beer.
Google short mead... much faster with a higher sugar content. Rack it repeatedly through progressively finer filters or use flockulent to get a perfect honey colored clear drink that tastes like carbonated honey water with a kick.
"Don't be Evil", well Google's certainly not being evil by using their own honey for company beer. That's a great way to be sustainable and it boosts morale. Google is really keeping up with green trends, such as beekeeping. It's spreading like wildfire now. I wonder what Google will do next?
Juan Miguel Ruiz (Going Green)
Uh - did you happen to read where the other ingredients come from? They're imported from every continent on the globe. This beer is about as environmentally hostile as it can be.
You're kidding right? How do you know how these ingredients were shipped?
lol..And as they open another carbon emitting server farm you green nutjobs get excited about a token bee hive. LOL oh man..You are a vegetable.!
Actually, Google is doing quite a lot to promote and advance sustainable and alternative energy sources.
Like shipping in ingredients from every continent on earth to make beer? Please; this is about as environmentally unfriendly as it is possible to be, and is only overshadowed by Google's unbelievably enormous arrogance in trying to claim otherwise because one small component was produced locally.
You need to get a buzz on and calm down.
If you really feel so strongly, please practice what you preach. Turn off your computer. Get rid of the power at your house. Get rid of your car, move to the country and practice subsistence farming. As I see it, you are part of the problem. If you were part of the solution, no one would have to listen to you.
Did you really need five posts to make your point? That goes beyond simply commenting. How much CO2 did you waste by repeating the same point five times? BTW, it's not like Google is chartering a plane to import all these ingredients. They were already in the country (you know other "American" companies like Coors and Miller import their ingredients for beer as well?) and shipped in bulk to start with. Google isn't creating an increased import demand for its few hundred cases of.... More
