by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Apr 13, 2020 | CO2 recapture
It was a close call for Denver, but liquor stores are still open across Colorado despite COVID-19. That means local breweries will still make their beer. In a large warehouse in the Sunnyside neighborhood, Denver Beer Co. brews around 20,000 barrels a...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Apr 13, 2020 | Packaging materials
STORY LINK / (September, 2018) — Thousands of thicker, heavier beer bottles are popping up on store shelves across Oregon as part of the first statewide refillable bottle system in the country, and supporters are hoping it might catch on in other states, too. At...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Apr 13, 2020 | Spent grains
NEWS LINK / (MARCH, 2020) — Farmer John Stahl used his leg as a fulcrum to swivel a 300-pound barrel of grain from his flatbed truck to a tractor bucket. “There’s a technique to moving these heavy barrels,” said Stahl, who’s handled more than 10 barrels of grain...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Apr 13, 2020 | Wastewater
NEWS LINK / NEWPORT, RI (February, 2020) — When Brent Ryan and three of his college buddies opened Rhode Island’s first microbrewery in 1999, they didn’t give any thought to all the used water full of yeast, sugars and bits of hops that they’d be emptying into the...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Apr 13, 2020 | Wastewater
CHARLTON — It’s a weekday morning in the dead of winter, but a long line of eager beer lovers is already waiting for the rustic Tree House brewery to open. Soon after the customers are allowed inside, they reemerge wheeling hand trucks stacked with cases of the beer...