A California craft brewery has launched what it claims is the world’s first beer carbonated with carbon dioxide captured directly from the air, marking a shift in how a critical industrial input can be sourced
Aircapture, a company focused on direct air capture (DAC), partnered with Almanac Beer Co. to debut Flow – Clean Air Edition (Flow – CAE).
The system sits inside Almanac’s brewery in Alameda, California. It pulls CO₂ from ambient air and refines it to beverage-grade quality before feeding it into the brewing process.
tim_dude on
What do they do with all the CO2 produced by the yeast?
DillDoughzer on
Aren’t most beers carbonated naturally during fermentation? Kegs are pressurized with co2 when they are tapped but this is weird to me. Is it just a tank of co2 that they’ve “captured”?
somethin_brewin on
An interesting proof of concept for the technology, but just the process of fermenting a beer creates an order of magnitude more CO2 than is needed for carbonating. Way more ecological to just capture that CO2 and use it to carbonate instead. People have been doing that for centuries.
Underwater_Karma on
Article is unbearable AI slop, it repeats itself over and over
ChornobylChili on
Ask not what your Country can do for You, but what You can do for your Country
Mlakeside on
This seems a kind of a pointless invention that would have a much better solution available. TBH, this sounds a lot like green-washing.
Yeast produces CO2 as a by-product of fermentation. In fact, fermentation produces **much** more CO2 than is necessary to carbonate beer. Thus this current solution produces more CO2 than it captures. Instead, we could capture the CO2 released during fermentation and use that to carbonate the beer. The excess could be in turn used to carbonate other products like sodas, that don’t produce their own CO2.
femanonette on
Did Aamir use AI to write this article? Lots of repetitive statements. We get it, it’s drawing CO2 from DAC and has the potential for wider commercial use.
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A California craft brewery has launched what it claims is the world’s first beer carbonated with carbon dioxide captured directly from the air, marking a shift in how a critical industrial input can be sourced
Aircapture, a company focused on direct air capture (DAC), partnered with Almanac Beer Co. to debut Flow – Clean Air Edition (Flow – CAE).
The system sits inside Almanac’s brewery in Alameda, California. It pulls CO₂ from ambient air and refines it to beverage-grade quality before feeding it into the brewing process.
What do they do with all the CO2 produced by the yeast?
Aren’t most beers carbonated naturally during fermentation? Kegs are pressurized with co2 when they are tapped but this is weird to me. Is it just a tank of co2 that they’ve “captured”?
An interesting proof of concept for the technology, but just the process of fermenting a beer creates an order of magnitude more CO2 than is needed for carbonating. Way more ecological to just capture that CO2 and use it to carbonate instead. People have been doing that for centuries.
Article is unbearable AI slop, it repeats itself over and over
Ask not what your Country can do for You, but what You can do for your Country
This seems a kind of a pointless invention that would have a much better solution available. TBH, this sounds a lot like green-washing.
Yeast produces CO2 as a by-product of fermentation. In fact, fermentation produces **much** more CO2 than is necessary to carbonate beer. Thus this current solution produces more CO2 than it captures. Instead, we could capture the CO2 released during fermentation and use that to carbonate the beer. The excess could be in turn used to carbonate other products like sodas, that don’t produce their own CO2.
Did Aamir use AI to write this article? Lots of repetitive statements. We get it, it’s drawing CO2 from DAC and has the potential for wider commercial use.