[Greenbuilding] Yes, but is it Green ?

[Alan Abrams]

Corwyn-

the information you provide has touched a nerve.  can you identify such
breweries that use yeast for carbonization?  (particularly ones that brew a
porter or a stout).

and what about German beers, conforming to their provisional purity law?
Mercy, this line of thinking is going to ruin any hope of productivity
today...

-a

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:23 AM, sanjay jain <sanjayjainuk at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Corwyn,
>
> I had assumed that the CO2 used for sodas was the byproduct of breweries.
> It seems like some CO2 can be recovered from "hydrogen plants, ammonia
> plants, corn-to-ethanol plants, and breweries" -
> http://www.uigi.com/co2recovery.html
>
> Wikipedia: "In its dominant route, carbon dioxide is produced as a side
> product of the industrial production of ammonia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia>and
> hydrogen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen>"
>
> If as you say, it's from chalk and acid, it's worse than I thought. Coke's
> main product IS a greenhouse gas.
>
> ~sanjay
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Corwyn <corwyn at midcoast.com>
> *To:* greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 12, 2012 7:12 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Greenbuilding] Yes, but is it Green ?
>
> On 1/12/2012 5:39 PM, sanjay jain wrote:
>
> >> Having said that, I assume their CO2 gas comes from beer, so perhaps
> >> beer drinkers are more at fault!
>
> The carbon dioxide in Coke, and most commercial beers comes from
> carbonation from chalk and sulfuric acid (or similar).  Only a few
> micro-breweries (speaking of the US) use yeast based carbonation.
>
> The former is taking sequestered carbon and adding back into the
> atmosphere, the latter is short cycle sustainable carbon.  This can be
> detected by the yeast residue at the bottom of the bottle.  (I drink it
> first for the B vitamins, others avoid it)
>
> Support your local brewery, or brew your own beer and soda.
>
>
> Thank You Kindly,
>
> Corwyn
>
> -- Topher Belknap
> Green Fret Consulting
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