Tag: Beer
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New carbon capture technology could help microbreweries recycle CO2 & cut costs
A technology developed at a national lab for improving carbon capture at power plants may be able to help craft breweries capture and reuse CO2 from their fermentation processes, while also slashing costs.
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Guinness goes vegan by nixing the fish bits
The Irish beer giant has stopped using fish bladders for filtration of its keg beer; cans and bottles to follow suit by the end of the year.
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Beer from recycled bread. Coming soon to the USA.
It's beer. It's made from waste bread. And it raises money for fighting food waste too. What's not to like?
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As Trump abandons climate fight, Budweiser aims for 100% renewables
America isn't going to lead on climate anymore. The world's largest brewer, however, is.
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Moving beer by ship, not road, saves 14% of CO2, says Heineken
Now imagine what would happen if the ships got greener too...
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Engineers in Colorado are tapping beer for energy storage
Brewery waste could be the beginnings of the next advanced battery.
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Saving the forest for the beers
Beer relies on healthy, functioning forests. Without those forests, it’s difficult to find clean water. And without clean water: no beer.
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What happens when women drink 2 beers a week?
A 32-year longitudinal study of alcohol consumption in Swedish women reveals some surprising twists.
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Shock Top Brewing wants you to drop a brick (in your toilet)
This beer company wants to drop bricks in toilets across California, help fund new water-saving inventions, and share practical tips for helping to conserve water.
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Eat a beer: ReGrained repurposes spent grain from brewing into granola bars
Only about 10% of the ingredients used to make beer end up in your glass, but the products from ReGrained help to put some of that back on your plate.
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This craft beer's secret ingredient is ... sewage water
Why throw out perfectly pure water? Might as well do something useful with it.
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More Americans drinking BPA in canned beer
What's in that "polymer lining" in every can? A gender-bending hormone that may be really bad for you.
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In Bruges, they deliver the beer by pipeline
Here is a great example of a modern adaptation of modern needs to a UNESCO Heritage site.
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Want some plastic particles with that cold German beer?
Researchers filtered 24 brands of German beer for contaminants and found some things that really shouldn't be there.
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When beer goes bad: This mini-keg is just about the most environmentally stupid packaging I have ever seen.
Especially in a part of the world where 98% of beer bottles are refilled 15 times, why would anyone sell such a thing.
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Why is a metal growler better than a glass one?
Klean Kanteen to offer shatter-proof growlers.
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California drought could screw with local beer production, "like brewing with Alka-Seltzer"
A problem with the beer supply: Is this what it's going to take for people to take climate change more seriously?
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Canned beer vs bottled beer and the fallacy of false choices
Once again, the question of which is greener, bottles or cans, ignores the greenest option of refilling.
