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Australian beer giant Fosters are the latest brewers to climb aboard the green bandwagon, with the launch of a new beer named Green Cascade.

The lager, brewed at the Foster's owned Cascade brewery in Tasmania, is 100 percent carbon offset, bottled in the light weight glass bottles and packaged in a 100% recycled carton, printed with vegetable inks. With only $150,000 to be spent on carbon offsets over the next year, however, Fosters appear to be aiming to achieve the bare minimum required for a 'green' label.

Reports that Green Cascade is Australia's first eco-friendly beer are inaccurate, however. The Barefoot Brewery, for instance, already produce the carbon neutral Barefoot Radler beer, and the Mountain Goat micro-brewery in Victoria produce a range of organic beers in an eco-friendly brewery that makes use of solar heated water and greywater recycling.

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