brunch at bread and brew: soy latte and iced tea. mushroom pizza with arugula added and a tofu frittata with home fries (the pizza was great, the frittata wasn’t very good)

dinner (shared with crispen): chipotle vegetarian burrito

snacks: leftovers from bread and brew, horseradish hummus and italian bread from trader joes and kettle salt and vinegar chips

drink: miller high life. i previously confirmed with the company that it’s vegan. in case you forgot here is their response:

Thank you for contacting MillerCoors.

MillerCoors does not use any animal by-products in our brewing process, nor are there any animal sources used in our packaging. Isinglass is not used in our brewing. There are five basic ingredients in all MillerCoors products. These include pure water, malted barley, corn syrup, hops, and yeast. Corn syrup is one of the basic ingredients used in most MillerCoors products as US consumers prefer its taste. Again, we do not use animal derived ingredients in our beer.

We appreciate your interest in our products.

Sincerely,

MillerCoors Consumer Affairs Department
Ref: Case#N20551580
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I am wondering if your beers are vegan.  I do not use
any ingredients derived from an animal including gelatin, milk, honey, whey,
casein, isinglass, etc. I am interested both in the filtration process and
in the ingredients that go into the beer itself. Thank you for your help

breakfast: grapes

lunch at Meiwah: vegetable soup (they promised me they could make it vegan), brown rice with soy sauce and seaweed salad

snack: more grapes (I ate a bunch and then realized that some are moldy…perhaps this is why i haven’t felt well all day)

dinner at Zaytinya: grape leaves, falafel, Piyaz (warm giant beans, kale, oven roasted tomato, garlic), roasted cauliflower, cucumbers (their bread isn’t vegan, but they will give you cucumbers instead), hummus

beer: peak organic nut brown (vegan according to barnivore. i just sent an email to them to confirm. i will post their response when i receive it).

more beer info:

Ithaca Beer Company:

Dear Stacey,

In general, most of our beers can be considered vegan as the ingredients are wheat (includes barley and rye), hops, water, and yeast.  We have a couple beers that incorporate some additional ingredients though, like alpHalpHa, which derives its exceptional flavor from local alfalfa honey.  This is done once a year and very limited in quantity, but you should know that it is processed through the same tanks and fermenters as our vegan-friendly beers.

Also, Apricot Wheat is made with a natural flavor extract, so more research would need to be done to know if the extract contains any animal derived products.

Please check out website for beers we brew.  There is a listing of the malts and hops used, and any additional ingredients that we used to bring out a specific flavor.

Sincerely,

Allison Graffin

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Hi Allison:

Thanks for getting back to me.  Is the filtration process vegan?  Since it sounds like most of your beers are vegan, is there a way to get a list of the beers that aren’t vegan? I have looked on the website, but it doesn’t provide me with enough information to decide if a beer is vegan or not vegan.

Thanks,

Stacey

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Stacey,

Good question.  Our filtration process uses cellulose filters that do not contain any diatomaceous earth.

Beers that contain animal product:

Excelsior! alpHalpHa (honey)

Excelsior! Eleven (lactose)

Beers that may contain animal product through trace contact:

Excelsior! Brute (aged in oak barrels previously used by winery)

Excelsior! Old Habit (aged in whiskey barrels previously used by a whiskey distillery)

Apricot Wheat (natural extract may not be vegan)

Beers that are made with water, malt, hops and yeast:

CascaZilla

Flower Power

Pale Ale

Nut Brown

Cold Front

Ground Break

Ex! White Gold

Partly Sunny – also contains lemon zest, orange zest, and coriander

Sincerely,

Allison

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Allison Graffin

Marketing Director

Ithaca Beer Co.

www.ithacabeer.com

breakfast: Joe’s O’s with soy milk and double stuffed oreo cookies (yes, i know i shouldn’t eat cookies for breakfast, but i was hungry and wanted junk food, so oreo’s seemed like the perfect solution.

snack: more joe’s o’s

lunch from Cafe Green: I am not sure what they call it at the new place, but it was a more expensive version of Revolutionary Chicken from Java Green

dinner: fries from Five Guys

drinks: yuengling black and tan (i realized when writing this post that I have not confirmed yuegling beers are vegan.  barnivore doesn’t say much and i emailed yuengling on 9/8/2009 inquring about this, but they never emailed me back.  i just sent them another email.

I received a response from Dogfish Head about their beers.  Here is their response:

Hey Stacey,

I have had this conversation before with some of our peeps in the lab and we have decided that you would want to stay away from Midas because it has honey in it (bees). But other than that, none come close to any animals. We use diatoms (dead organisms/crushed shells) in our filtration process. Basically when those sea organisms die, their shells call to the bottom of the ocean floor, they are harvested (just the shells) as diatomaceous earth which is used to polish the beer and give it clarity. But that is not considered an animal byproduct and the organisms died on their own, we did not kill them.

Hope that helps!

Cheers!

Nora Sheehan, Celebration Specialist

H.R. Assistant/Brewceptionist

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

6 Cannery Village Center

Milton, DE  19968

302.684.1000

My first post on someone else’s blog: In response to this post on the Prince of Petworth blog about the new frozen yogurt place in Columbia Heights, I wrote:

Do you know if they will serve vegan frozen yogurt? If so, I will be there everyday!

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• 07 May 2010 11:42 AM | Prince Of Petworth Said:Yes the do! They also have for lactose intolerant folks.
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NOTE: I went to the store to get their vegan soft serve and apparently they only have sorbet. I don’t know if their sorbet is vegan. i didn’t bother to ask because i don’t really like sorbet.