Alaska brewery plans to use beer as a source of green energy

General Homebrew Discussion
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The Juneau-based beer maker has installed a unique boiler system in order to cut its fuel costs. It purchased a $1.8 million furnace that burns the company’s spent grain – the waste accumulated from the brewing process – into steam which powers the majority of the brewery’s operations.

Pretty cool, eh?

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Too cool

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They are one of the few breweries that has the machinery to make their own CO2 also, mostly because it costs so much to ship it in.

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They pulverize their malt and then run it through a mash press to maximize brewhouse efficiency too.