Sierra Nevada to Convert Beer Waste into High Grade Ethanol
We've all seen the t-shirt that says: this ain't a beer belly, it's a fuel tank for a sex machine. Well, after crafting delicious fuel for the nation's sex machines for 29 years, it seems that the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. will start producing fuel for a different sort of tank. They've teamed up with the ethanol brewing enthusiasts at E-Fuel to convert the waste produced by the state of the art green brewery into homemade moonshine biofuel. You may remember a little ethanol home-brewing device called the E-Fuel Microfueler that made a splash back when gas prices was sky high. Well, starting in the second quarter of 2009, E-Fuel will install a bunch of these Microfuelers at the Sierra Nevada Brewery in Chico, CA. Currently, the "bottom of the barrel" waste is loaded on trucks and sold as feed to local dairy operations. Starting in late 2009, after the testing phase has concluded, all that waste will stay on site and be converted into high-grade ethanol, used to power Sierra Nevada's fleet vehicles.
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