Here’s To Maker’s Mark

Posted by: Alexandra Marvar
on August 5, 2008 at 12:31 am

While we don’t endorse relying on alcohol for everything, we did applaud Obama and Prince Charles for turning to beer and wine to power their cars. Now, a stiffer drink is going Green: Maker’s Mark is using booze to power their factories—70% to 85% of the power required to run the distilleries’ boilers will be generated by way of processing bourbon stillage into methane and carbon dioxide. We’ll drink to that.

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- Posted by: bourbon_bob
- on August 6, 2008 at 5:38 pm
At THE BOURBON REVIEW, we are looking at exactly how green the bourbon industry was before. Nevertheless, we applaud Maker’s Mark for this positive use of energy regeneration technology. Unfortunately, bourbon will not be able to earn the title “organic” for a while. It seems that we cannot confirm that the oak trees we use to make bourbon barrels cannot be labeled organic because no one was around 100 years ago to confirm that the tree was organicly planted.