Alcohol tips

[edit] General Tips

• Organic wines, spirits and beers are becoming more widely available from farmers markets (find your nearest at Farmersmarkets ), high street shops, catalogues and websites. Try Vinceremos and Vintageroots

• More information about Cider

[edit] Wine Tips

• Screw tops and corks are more environmentally friendly than plastic corks.

• Organic wines, spirits and beers are becoming more widely available from farmers markets (find your nearest farmers market here), high street shops, catalogues and websites. Try also http://www.vinceremos.co.uk and http://www.vintageroots.co.uk No promises that it will avoid hangovers, but definitely worth a try...

• Wine saver - near the end of a bottle of wine but don't fancy finishing it? Pour into an ice cube tray and put it in the freezer (red or white wine is fine). Then add a cube or two when you next cook pasta sauce, gravy, soup, risotto etc for a bit of extra flavour!

• Buy organic wine here

• Make your own wine

[edit] Beer Tips

• More information about brewing and distributing Beer

• Buy organic beer to show that there is a market for it.

• Buy beer in returnable bottles wherever you find them, and recycle any bottles and cans that cannot be returned.

• Sample locally produced beers.

• Stay within the limits for sensible drinking!

• Support the independent and small breweries by trying out their beers whenever you can.

• Ask for top-ups in pubs so that you get the full pint you paid for, and insist on good quality.

• Brew your own beer

• [[Alternative uses for beer]

• Write to your MP and ask them to put pressure on the Government to:

• Introduce a Progressive Beer Duty (PBD) to support small breweries,

• Champion legislation in Europe to introduce alcohol unit labelling and full ingredients listing, and

• Introduce legislation on returnable bottles, along the same lines as Denmark.