Green Beer, Really?

St. Patrick's Day is the holiday of beer! But, we don't just enjoy the usual types of beer on this day. Usually on this special day for all beer drinkers in North America we look that for special green beer to show that we can not only get intoxicated, but we can do it in style! The bars start serving green beer. The breweries produce green beer to sell in the stores. This phenomenon is all thanks to the Irish who think we're insane for polluting our booze. Yes, the Irish love their beer, but unlike us in North America, they do not celebrate St. Patrick's Day by dying their beer.

Dogfish Head Brewery

Dogfish Head Brewery really came through for people looking for a green beer without the dyes. In 2005, they got the idea from the light colored beer made popular in Dortmund, Germany and the naturally green beer produced in Myanmar and Thailand. Dortmunder style beer is used for its very pale color and the coloring is actually from algae known as spirulina. The lager has a relatively bitter taste and a very strong aroma, but combine the algae and the pale lager and you have one hell of a green beer which isn't too expensive to celebrate St. Patty's Day!

Make Your Own!

The best way to have green beer at home for St. Patty's Day is to make green beer yourself. It's very simple to do, unless you drank too much of the beer before you actually started turning it green! Grab the blue and yellow food coloring out of the cabinet and head over to the fridge. Grab a bottle or can of your favorite lager and pour it into a glass. Mix up the beer with the food coloring and drink up! You choose the beer, but still get a green tongue!

Go Green! Environmentally.

There are also many brands which take green beer to a whole new level. With the green initiative, many breweries have decided to make beers environmentally friendly. If you support going green the rest of the month, why not keep it up on St. Patty's day! When all your friends come up to you asking why your beer's not green, simply tell them it is. They'll be too drunk to know the difference!