Fortunately, scientists are brewing up new ways to decrease the environmental footprint of a pint, though ideologies could prevent these green beers from ever making it to tap houses.
The restaurant is perhaps the most ambitious among a growing group of pubs, like the Peekskill Brewery and the Tap House in Tuckahoe, that go beyond burgers, fries and chicken wings.
For the opening of their tap house this year, he and his brother, Jim, brewed a nicely hopped 3.9percentt ale, Mild, that was so successful they shipped kegs of it to New York.
213 City Rd, CF24 3JD; 029 2047 3150; milgilounge.com Urban Tap House, Cardiff Craft beer and cider bar – with its own brewery, naturally – in a large space with five rooms over two floors.
This spring, locals even went so far as to launch the Finger Lakes Beer Trail, a guide to more than 40 breweries, brewpubs, tap houses and specialty beer stores that competes with the area's many wine trails.
Chris Black, owner of Denver's seminal craft-beer mecca, Falling Rock Tap House, made news last year when he wrote an open letter to Longmont, Colorado's Oskar Blues Brewery informing management that he would no longer be selling their beer, effective immediately.
For three years in a row, Oregon has been the number one moving destination in the US, according to a study by United Van Lines, further exhausting already tapped housing.
Tapping housing equity appears to be a last resort for older Americans not a solid footing on which to build an adequate retirement income stream.
That puts it in direct competition not only with pubs, but also with up-and-coming British breweries which rely on income from their tap-house bars to keep going.
They show techniques real people are using to tap their housing wealth.
