Drink, Then Drive With Sierra Nevada's Brew-Based Biofuel

[JoeProBono]

California brewer Sierra Nevada has teamed up with microrefiner E-Fuel to turn wasted yeast into enough high-grade ethanol to power their delivery trucks and a few hundred other vehicles. As if there weren't enough excuses for drinking the craft brewer's Pale Ale and ESB, we can now add "saving American beer delivery trucks from dependence on foreign oil" to the list.

[JoeProBono]

It turns out that for every delicious pint they brew, some "bottom of the barrel" high alcohol content waste product ends up being discarded. Every year, 1.6 million gallons of "waste beer" have traditionally ended up as dairy feed -- which explains why cow tipping is so darn easy. Now, the beermaker has installed Efuel100 Microfuelers, mini refineries that raise the alcohol content of the waste product enough that it becomes high-quality ethanol. The brewery hopes to provide that fuel to hundreds of Central Valley customers before the end of 2009.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Trailerpark Badass]

Just had some of their new IPA, Torpedo. Very nice.

[unkus]

Quick glance at headline led me to believe you drink the beer and then pee in your car’s gas tank.

[JoeProBono]

[OneWingedShark]

See, beer is good.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They should pool their efforts...or is it their MASH

California Brewers Take Home the Gold at Intl. Competition
Local brewers pull in 35 medals at World Beer Cup

Posted by: Jonny Fullpint · May 13th, 2008

Sacramento, CA – California craft brewers pulled in a collective thirty five medals at the recent World Beer Cup, more than any other state and more than any other country outside the US.

The seventh bi-annual international competition, considered the “Olympics” of beer awards, was held in San Diego on April 19th. Six hundred and forty four breweries from 58 countries vied for the awards.

The competition also gives the “Champion Brewery” and “Champion Brewer” in each of five brewery categories. Tomme Arthur of the Port Brewing Company and The Lost Abbey in San Diego won the World Beer Cup Champion Brewery and Brewmaster in the Small Brewing Company category.

“California’s craft brewers continue to generate a lot of excitement and interest through the creativity and the quality of the beers they brew,” said Steve Wagner, president/brewmaster of Stone Brewing Co. in San Diego County. “The reputation of California craft beer continues to grow, not just in this country but around the world.”

California, the birthplace of the first craft brewery (Anchor brewing Company in San Francisco) and the first microbrewery (the now defunct New Albion Brewing Company in Sonoma), is home to over 250 craft breweries. The state accounts for 18% of the total craft beer produced in the country.

The international reputation of California-brewed beer helped the state’s small brewers post a strong growth rate of 5.8% in 2007 despite a huge increase in the cost of hops and barley. The price in hops alone has increased as much as tenfold for some varieties. Both non-craft domestic beer and imports grew by less than 1.5% nationally in 2007.

“The California craft brewing industry is thriving despite radical challenges in the cost of brewing high quality beer,” said Tom McCormick, Executive Director of the California Small Brewers Association. “Not only are we seeing strong growth in production numbers, but we are seeing a new surge of start-ups as well.”

The California Small Brewers Association represents the interests of the craft brewing industry in California. The membership ranges from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, the country’s second largest craft brewer, to a wide array of tiny brewpubs.

California Small Brewers Association
PO Box 1202
Nevada City, CA 95959
Smallbrewers.com

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am working on some "Woodie Gold" from Karl Strauss Brewing in San Diego....good stuff....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well now/...a Beer Blog:

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Marine_Uncle]

I stick to the relatively low cost beers. On my salary I can’t afford the luxuries. I’ll suffer through the spring summer and fall on Coors Extra Gold Lager. Enjoy your Woodie Gold.

[JoeProBono]

[IamConservative]

I can say from practical experience that if I pour Sierra Nevada in me,I make gas....and lots of it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I bought the sixpack some time ago at a new store....Sprouts...they are something like Trader Joes I guess....don't remember what I paid...

I have made a couple of tours of the Golden Colorado Coors Brewery. Would go back again,.....course on the prairie we called it Colorado Kool Aid....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach. If there’s a lot of it, the pile might be a monster mash.

The Bum Rap on Biofuels
American Thinker | 5-13-08 | Herbert Meyer
Posted on 05/14/2008 3:59:06 AM PDT by Renfield
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015711/posts

Campaign to vilify ethanol revealed
ethanol producer Magazine | May 16, 2008 | By Kris Bevill
Posted on 05/17/2008 9:22:13 AM PDT by Kevin J waldroup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017389/posts

[tubebender]

A local Brewer my FRiends have invested heavily in... http://www.lostcoast.com/