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Brewery Makes New Craft Beer For EPA After Environmental Disaster

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) critics can drown their sorrows with a new craft beer that grew out of an agency-caused environmental disaster.

An EPA crew penetrated Colorado’s Gold King Mine in August, 2015, which flooded the Animas River with three million gallons of toxic waste. The sludge dyed the water a murky yellow-orange color.

Golden Block Brewery – located just downstream from the mine in Silverton, Colo. – recently released its EPA India Pale Ale, which has a similar color as the stained Animas River, CBS Denver reported.

Golden Block Brewery created an EPA India Pale Ale in honor of the first anniversary of the agency-caused Gold King Mine disaster. (Credit: Floyd Barela)

Golden Block Brewery created an EPA India Pale Ale in honor of the first anniversary of the agency-caused Gold King Mine disaster. (Credit: Floyd Barela)

“People really enjoyed it,” brewery co-owner Floyd Barela told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “I only made 10 gallons and it went fast. We do plan on doing another batch of our parody pints for the 2nd anniversary of the EPA disaster in 2017.”

Barela used blood orange and a touch of habanero to give it the murky coloring.

The beer was released as part of a festival marking the disaster’s one-year anniversary Friday. The celebration was called “Super FunDays” – a reference to the EPA’s recent proposal to make 48 mines, including Gold King, Superfund sites.

Silverton residents resisted a Superfund designation for decades before finally succumbing to EPA pressure after the agency-caused spill.

The festival also featured “Environmental Pork Agency” sandwiches, The Associated Press reported.

TheDCNF has reported extensively on the questionable actions EPA took before and after the spill, including those that point to the agency covering up important details demonstrating its responsibility for the disaster.

New Mexico has since filed lawsuits against the EPA, its contractor that worked at Gold King Mine, Colorado, and mine owners.

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