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2022-09-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

US could face ANOTHER beer shortage after extinct Mississippi volcano contaminated the country's largest CO2 reserve

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Posted by DarthVader 2022-09-20 15:10|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

Posted by DarthVader 2022-09-20 15:19|| 2022-09-20 15:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Makes you wonder how people carbonated their beer in the olden days before the invention of volcanoes.

Posted by SteveS 2022-09-20 16:34|| 2022-09-20 16:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Makes you wonder how people carbonated their beer in the olden days before the invention of volcanoes.

Dunno. I have went back to homebrewing and doing natural carbonization. Must be magic. :D

Posted by DarthVader 2022-09-20 16:38|| 2022-09-20 16:38|| Front Page Top

#4 As DarthVader says, brewing releases carbon dioxide during the process. As I understand it, in an industrial situation so much CO2 is produced that they have to bleed it off and discard it, then add in more at the end. Perhaps it’s time for them to capture and recycle instead of bringing more in from outside sources.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-09-20 17:43|| 2022-09-20 17:43|| Front Page Top

#5 When you hear "Cold Filtered" it means they stuck the beer in the secondary fermentation or racked it in a cooler. Makes the particulates fall out sooner.

To make it happen sooner, modern brewers use CO2 to have millions of small bubbles move through the secondary and it will make the particulates move to the top and they skim it off. Takes off 5 days or so off the brew process. So that is where they will be hurting with the additional cost of CO2. As TW said, about time to start capture and recycle.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-09-20 18:14|| 2022-09-20 18:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Makes you wonder how people carbonated their beer in the olden days

Why do you suppose there is such a concern about excess bovine methane?

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-20 18:26|| 2022-09-20 18:26|| Front Page Top

#7 brewing releases carbon dioxide during the process

Hello, Swiss Cheese?

Posted by Frank G 2022-09-20 20:32|| 2022-09-20 20:32|| Front Page Top

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