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Lettuce from California, Olive Oil from Italy, Peanut Sauce from Thailand; these are things which our commitment to quality requires we procure from far away lands. While the items themselves are delicious, they require an enormous amount of resources to transport from their country of origin to their final destination. With that in mind, we are setting out to do our little part. A typical keg of beer arriving at our back door contains 15.5 gallons of beer and weighs in at a modest 140 pounds. If that same 15.5 gallons of beer were to be split into 12 ounce bottles, it would produce 165 bottles, whose weight, including glass, would approach 220 pounds. That extra 80 pounds of glass adds up to a lot of fuel used in its transport. Further adding to the problem is a reliance on beers produced far away. Even domestics often come from hundreds and thousands of miles aways, such as Missouri, Colorado and Massachusets. Taking all of this into consideration, the East Madison Glass Nickel decided to take the bold step of removing almost all of our glass bottled beer and replacing it with an extra tap of 8 keg lines. We have filled these taps with Wisconsin's finest: New Glarus, Capitol, Ale Asylum, Sprecher and Leinies, to name just a few. All, told, we have 16 new beer taps (Ok, one of them is Root Beer) most leading to barrels of locally produced ales, lagers and pilsners. Come in and see us on Atwood Ave. in Madison and have a cold one, knowing that it is the beer less traveled.
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