Wine & Beer Garden

Stop by our Wine & Beer Garden for a relaxing time and watch the Metro Main Stage from above the crowd!



     

 
                


Just in case, you should know that we have-  "Designated Parking for Designated Drivers"

While you're enjoying your beer, know that both Lagunitas and Sam Adams Brewery take sustainability seriously:
 
ECOVOLT™ WILL ELIMINATE 10 TRUCKS PER DAY AND GENERATE CLEAN ENERGY AT LAGUNITAS BREWING COMPANY
 
Boston, Mass., November 26, 2013 – Cambrian Innovation announced the installation of EcoVolt, the world’s first bioelectrically enhanced wastewater treatment system, at Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, CA. EcoVolt empowers customers like Lagunitas to cut operating costs and monetize their process and wastewater streams while significantly increasing plant sustainability.
Lagunitas Brewing Company is one of the fastest growing craft breweries in the nation, and well known for its hoppy beers with irreverent names such as Hairy Eyeball, Hop Stoopid, and Lagunitas Sucks. Until now, Lagunitas transported its 50,000 gallons per day of high-strength wastewater to East Bay Municipal Utility District (MUD), requiring over 3,000 trucks a year. This is a reality for many breweries, as breweries produce wastewater streams rich in nutrients (food source) that disrupt biologically based municipal wastewater systems. The wastewater must then be treated to comply with environmental regulatory standards and comes with both monetarily and environmentally high costs.
“We’re delighted for the opportunity to help Lagunitas address their water management and sustainability goals,” said Matthew Silver, CEO of Cambrian Innovation. “Beverage companies across the country are rightfully concerned about rising energy and water costs. Yet, wastewater itself contains energy. The Cambrian EcoVolt system uses recent advances in biotechnology to capture this energy, turning wastewater from a hassle to a revenue source.”
Developed with assistance from the National Science Foundation, EcoVolt uses electrogenic organisms to generate clean energy from wastewater. These recently discovered organisms convert wastewater pollutants into electricity, which is subsequently funneled to a circuit and back into an electrode where a different set of microorganisms convert electricity and carbon dioxide into methane fuel—forming a complete treatment process. The methane can be used on-site for clean power and heat production.
EcoVolt is a robust, end-to-end, anaerobic wastewater treatment solution that can be rapidly installed and scaled across a range of biological oxygen demand (BOD) loadings. Its bioelectric capability allows for continuous, remote monitoring and control. Because EcoVolt is prefabricated and provides for turnkey installation, the system can easily accommodate facility expansion, as well as new system installations. These attributes minimize installation and operation hassles.
“We looked at a lot of options for onsite treatment…” says Lagunitas CFO Leon Sharyon, “…EcoVolt takes anaerobic digestion to a new level allowing for remote monitoring and greater control.”

TAKING THE DIESEL OUT OF THE BEER.
Demand for Lagunitas is increasing in many states across the US, and with this demand has come a mission to take as much diesel as possible out of the beer in everything from sourcing to shipping. As part of this initiative, Lagunitas is building a second brewery in Chicago (opening early 2014); shipping malt by train, directly to Petaluma—eliminating about 600 trucks every year; and now, with the new EcoVolt wastewater treatment solution, they will be eliminating 10 trucks per day from the brewery—over 3,000 trucks annually.
“Relative to the other anaerobic digestion systems we evaluated, the Cambrian system offers a scalable solution allowing us to add capacity as we grow… and requires much less operating oversight,” says Leon.

SMALL FOOTPRINT. BIG CHANGE FOR THE INDUSTRY.
As Leon says, “…those traditional systems looked like industrial powerplants, but the EcoVolt ships self-contained, literally, in a shipping container. Its smallness is huge on so many levels.” Especially since any energy created that Lagunitas does not use can be put back on the grid for Petaluma.

Sustainability at Sam Adams Brewery

We are committed to protecting the environment and continue to look for ways to minimize waste, increase recycling, and maximize the effective use of natural resources throughout our operations. We routinely conduct assessments of our breweries and other facilities to ensure compliance with applicable environmental regulations and best practices. Our employees are a key component of these environmental and sustainability initiatives as well, so we invest in training, education, and awareness programs to support those efforts.

As a company, we recycle and reuse many of our materials. In Massachusetts and New York, Samuel Adams works with its distributors to collect, clean, and refill its glass bottles. All scrap glass generated from our bottling operations is sent to a glass recycler. We collect Samuel Adams beer beyond its freshness date and recycle materials where possible. We recycle packaging materials, including old or defective corrugated paper packaging containers, plastic shrink-wrap and plastic banding, which we send to local recycling facilities. Our breweries refurbish damaged wooden pallets that are returned to us by our wholesalers. Additionally, we also aggressively recycle our brewing byproduct -- our spent grain and yeast is sent to local dairy farmers for use as animal feed or soil fertilizers and we’ve invested in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery systems that allow us to capture and reuse CO2 for carbonation and other brewery related processes.

We have “Green Teams” at our breweries where we focus on reducing, re-using, and recycling materials, as well as promoting environmental awareness through communications and events. Renovations at our Pennsylvania and Cincinnati breweries have increased our energy efficiency over the years. At our Pennsylvania brewery, we have upgraded energy efficient foam insulation in our beer aging cellars, installed new high-efficiency lighting systems and motion sensors to turn lights on and off when not in use, and replaced existing fittings with energy-saving fixtures on our pumps and motors. We also established processes for recycling other materials, including office paper, batteries, lamps, e-waste, steel, and used oil from equipment maintenance.

Since all of our beer has to leave our breweries to make its way to wholesalers across the country, we have instituted a “no idling” requirement at our breweries for all transportation carriers in order to reduce CO2 emissions and save fuel. We have also increased the load weight efficiencies on our trucks and the use of rail transportation for shipments from our breweries and transport of raw materials.