I came across this article in BeerAdvocate. Michigan Brewing Co. is partnering with Michigan State University to run their brewhouse on bio-diesel. They are not the first to do this, but it is exciting to see more breweries moving toward alternative energy usage.
From what I understand it is a fairly simple process of changing your burner head on your steam generator/boiler to be compatible with bio-diesel. If you have access to bio-diesel (which MSU will be providing for them), then you are pretty much set to burn the new fuel.
The only other brewery I have heard of using a similar process is a new one up in Oregon called Hopworks Urban Brewery.. From what I understand they are totally sustainability minded, even making decision based on things such as food miles (meaning energy used/distance traveled to put what your eating on your plate).
It's great to see brewers out there make healthy decisions in there business endeavors.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Bio-diesel in the brewhouse.
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Well said.
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