New Belgium, the source of our beloved Fat Tire Ale, kicks off a campaign toting “the sustainable side of whimsical [read: alcohol-soaked] living.”
Denver’s Cultivator Advertising and Design create Follow Your Folly, guiding jovial beer lovers to an interactive Wonderland promoting sustainability with bare-assed but enviro-friendly efforts like Save Our Rivers. Tagged “Follow your folly. Ours is beer,” a featured beer appears in each promotion.
It merits noting that even before Google got all extra-extra with their bike-riding culture and alternative energy hype, New Belgium was already laying the groundwork. They were also the first brewery to switch to wind-power in 1999, and employees ride bikes or walk to work. With careful recycling, reuse and composting methods, only 2% of their waste becomes landfill.
Follow Your Folly looks to us like great marketing in harmony with the socially responsible values of a good company. Even if some people don’t care about environmentally responsible corporate conduct, we sorta do. After all, beer is nature’s nectar.
