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The Smuttynose Towle Farm brewery in Hampton, N.H., has an invisible but tight envelope that keeps the interior temperature consistently cool or warm, prevents energy loss and ultimately saves money.

Survival Of The Greenest Beer? Breweries Adapt To A Changing Climate

Breweries are grappling with more weather extremes — heat waves, snowy winters, heavy rains and drought. Many are coming up with creative ways to adjust to their changing environments.

Tyler BigChild, a board member of Vancouver's Drug Users Resource Center, is also part of its Brew Co-Op. The group teaches alcoholics how to make beer and wine, in the hopes that they'll stop risky behavior such as drinking rubbing alcohol.

Alcoholics Learn To Make Their Own Beer In Canadian Program

In a twist on the old "teach a man to fish" adage, a Vancouver group teaches inveterate alcoholics to brew their own booze. The goal? Keeping them from drinking unsafe liquids that contain alcohol.

Obama Polishes His 'Regular Guy' Image With Beer

Both President Obama and Mitt Romney have been criticized for not being approachable. Their campaigns have spent the last few months convincing Americans to like them. But in the battle for likability, Obama has one tool that Romney doesn't: beer.

A beer flight from New District Brewing Co.

Amid Craft Brewery Boom, Some Worry About A Bubble — But Most Just Fear Foam

Fueled by customers' unquenchable thirst for the next great flavor note, the craft beer industry has exploded like a poorly fermented bottle of home brew.

Refuge Coffee is a nonprofit gourmet food truck that employees refugees resettled in Clarkston, Ga., and provides job training and networking opportunities within the community.

This Food Truck Serves Up Gourmet Fare And Drinks — And Jobs For Refugees

Half of the 13,000 residents of Clarkston, Ga., are foreign born — many of them resettled refugees. A nonprofit food truck helps them get job training and work experience, and network with neighbors.

In Chattanooga, The Premiere Of The Locals Only Music Festival

(Aired Weds 10/09/24) This weekend, a new festival aims to fill a gap in Chattanooga’s music scene. On Saturday and Sunday, the Locals Only Music Festival features bands and musicians here in Chattanooga at Barrelhouse Ballroom.

Great Basin's Mayan Maybe? beer has been a fast seller, the company's brewmaster says.

Brewers Prepare Beer For The End Of Time, Mayan Or Otherwise

Dec. 21 marks the end of the Mayan calendar — a time of celebration for the ancient people, scientists say, although some modern day folks worry it's a sign of the apocalypse. It may not be the end of the world as we know it, but beer masters inspired by the end of days feel fine.

Beer and Hymns is an event at the annual Greenbelt Festival in London. Since 1974, Greenbelt has brought people together to explore faith, arts and justice issues.

5 Things You Might Not Have Known About God And Beer

What do ancient Sumerians, Paulaner monks, Arthur Guinness and a whole bunch of party-hardy millennials have in common? Pairing beer with God.

Gay Rights Law Faces Legal, Religious Challenges

Gay civil union will be legal in most counties in California today, but it is already facing some challenges. NPR's religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty talks about the battle between equal rights and American ideals of religious freedom.

Kenya's Rising Political Star

Speaking on television, Muthiora Kariara, a former pig farmer who lives in one of Nairobi's vast slums, was honest and direct and exactly the opposite of the politicians Kenyans have gotten used to.

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