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Brewing and the environment

The world of brewery co-products

05.01.2009
Here's a radical thought: could it be one day that co-products generated by the brewing process will be worth more than the beer produced? The Beer & the Environment series concludes on a typiclly controversial note.

Effluent treatment

03.11.2008
Waste water, environmentally speaking, is water down the drain. UC Davis professor Charlie Bamforth considers best practice in reducing the COD load, after a spot of do-it-yourself at home.

Lights out

01.10.2008
Energy conservation meaures can be both big and small. from instlling an efficient wort-boling system through to simply having staff turn off lights in an empty room. UC Davis professor Charlie Bamofth cahrts a clear direction regarding greener technologies.

Water, water

01.09.2009
Water is not everywhere, write Charlie Bamforth, and there's the dry rub: brewers can do more to reduce, recycle and re-use in brewing and especially packaging processes. The good professor catalogues a myriad of possibilities to improve performance - starting on the home front....
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Brewery greenery

26.01.2010
Charlie Bamforth opens his series on brewing and the environment with an overview of the factors in play - financial, political and legislative agendas, as well as consumer concerns and functional considerations, such as the market for spent grains.
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