Beer in your gas tank?
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- MdrnHpp33
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"Living quite close to the massive MillerCoors brewery in Golden, Colorado, I can attest to the fact that the hoppy scent of beer wafts throughout the streets and down the road for what seems like miles before finally dissipating. Even if you're not a beer drinker, it smells oddly distinctive, kind of sweet and somewhat seductive. On a recent tour of their facility, I asked what they do with all of the grain and hop "waste" once it runs through the entire brewing process, and a representative explained that they recycle 98% of their brewery waste via local cattle farmers who feed it to their animals. While it's comforting to learn that the material is being recycled in some manner, that's just one brewery in one town.
Just a few miles away, the Estes Park Brewery has been struggling with the issue of what to do with their spent grain for well over a decade now. The small microbrewery famously ended up dumping their malted barley into a trailer behind their facility, which throughout the years has lured hundreds upon thousands of eager elk to feast like there's no tomorrow. It seems like a perfectly practical choice to me, but local officials were up in arms since one too many elk were crossing the road in their quest for sweet grainy goodness and meeting their untimely demise via car. They put the kibosh on that recycling method just a few years ago, a quandry that countless other brewers across the world are faced with on a regular basis."
For more, click on the link to the blog on www.Greenwala.com
Just a few miles away, the Estes Park Brewery has been struggling with the issue of what to do with their spent grain for well over a decade now. The small microbrewery famously ended up dumping their malted barley into a trailer behind their facility, which throughout the years has lured hundreds upon thousands of eager elk to feast like there's no tomorrow. It seems like a perfectly practical choice to me, but local officials were up in arms since one too many elk were crossing the road in their quest for sweet grainy goodness and meeting their untimely demise via car. They put the kibosh on that recycling method just a few years ago, a quandry that countless other brewers across the world are faced with on a regular basis."
For more, click on the link to the blog on www.Greenwala.com
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Agent_Alpha
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Don't think about beer.
- 2 years ago
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Agent_Alpha
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nursediesel
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That's ashame they won't let the animals benefit from the leftover hops and the dregs. Monks lived off that stuff through the cold winters. It's full of a lot of nutrients.
BOO, HISS! - 2 years ago
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nursediesel
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nursediesel
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Whoa, maybe use some of the really cheap, raunchy beer... But you keep your hands of my black'n tan.
- 2 years ago
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nursediesel
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bailey78
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OH I SEE! it's Ok for my car to get drunk and drive but I can't. talk about a double standard. I am not going to waste good beer on a old beatup truck like mine let it go get its own beer
- 2 years ago
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bailey78
