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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
US could face ANOTHER beer shortage after extinct Mississippi volcano contaminated the country's largest CO2 reserve
2022-09-20
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The price of carbon dioxide - a vital component for beer production - has risen fourfold, Axios reported on Monday

  • CO2 has been in short supply for several years as the pandemic forced people to drink from home: CO2 is needed in beer and sodas

  • Now raw gas from a mine has seeped into the Jackson Dome, an extinct volcano in Mississippi that provides much of the country's supply of CO2

  • The contamination at the site, operated since 1977, has reduced the amount of food-grade CO2 available
Posted by:DarthVader

#7   brewing releases carbon dioxide during the process

Hello, Swiss Cheese?
Posted by: Frank G   2022-09-20 20:32  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#1  
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-09-20 15:19  

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