Possible CO2 shortage in the UK

[Davemc]

Just seen this in the news.

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...uk-beer-and-chicken-supplies-during-world-cup

 

[BeerCat]

I am glad i have a spare.

 

[GerritT]

Just keep exhaling. Or burn some forests.

 

[Gunge]

Well that's put an end to global warming then, but don't expect them to scrap your green taxes anytime soon.

 

[Davemc]

Might be good for micro pubs, next thing will be a shortage of real ale in pubs when all the carling and fosters drinkers switch over.

 

[MrL73]

I'm glad my beer makes it's own.

 

[Ajhutch]

Have CAMRA made an obnoxious comment about kegged beer yet?

 

[Sadfield]

Have CAMRA made an obnoxious comment about kegged beer yet?

Oh you know them so well. There getting some grief on twitter for this. Mainly from brewers and landlords pointing out how much their livelihoods and cask ale rely on CO2 for sale and production.

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[foxbat]

You'll need to embiggen that screenshot before we can read it.

 

[Fil]

OMG!! Im gonna board up the windows tomorrow, feck knows what will happen round here when there are no chicken nuggets to be had??? hoards of starving chavs without the ability to order anything else will be roaming the streets..

ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[marshbrewer]

Looks to me like a press release explaining that real ale is naturally carbonated. You know 'Lemonade appreciation society points out lemonade is also a refreshing drink during national orange shortage' type of thing. I don't understand the offence taken?

 

[Ajhutch]

Oh you know them so well. There getting some grief on twitter for this. Mainly from brewers and landlords pointing out how much their livelihoods and cask ale rely on CO2 for sale and production.

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I thought I was joking.

 

[Sadfield]

I think the backlash to this is that they have completely missed how this CO2 issue could be a problem to Real ale production, and serving of all drinks in pubs, including cask ale in very many pubs. Pubs that CAMRA claim to support, but instead have used this issue to repeat their tired, 70's anti artificial carbonation message. There appears to be a genuine concern from businesses over this issue. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44545010

From a brewer, "We use plenty Co2 producing cask ales. Rousing tanks, purging tanks, transferring beer etc."

From a Publican, "Just shows how ignorant @CAMRA_Official is to anything other than real ale & perry. Cask is an important category to us, as is keg lager, cider & craft ale, plus wines, spirits & soft drinks. W/out all we are out of business. They are stuck in the 70s with most of their members."

From Author Pete Brown, "Oh, well played @CAMRA_Official. Seriously, well done. Here's a crisis that could cause immense harm to the pubs you claim to support, and you use it as an opportunity to denigrate 'fizz'. The 1970s called. They said go home, you're drunk."

 

[Ajhutch]

Looks to me like a press release explaining that real ale is naturally carbonated. You know 'Lemonade appreciation society points out lemonade is also a refreshing drink during national orange shortage' type of thing. I don't understand the offence taken?

I’d be willing to bet there isn’t a single pub, or for that matter brewery, anywhere in Britain that can survive without CO2. So for CAMRA to belittle the issue is stupid.

 

[marshbrewer]

Not really sure they are belittling the issue, but hey ho.

 

[BREWERS DROOP]

The next fake news will be there’s a shortage of sugar.

 

[Bigcol49]

OMG!! Im gonna board up the windows tomorrow, feck knows what will happen round here when there are no chicken nuggets to be had???

Hi!
All you need now is a shortage of SunnyD and your joy will be complete!

 

[Brianbrewed]

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2018/0620/971874-co2-shortage/

Seems to be a break in the production of amonia which is a main source of Food grade CO2.
Nice, short concise article about it above.

 

[Leon103]

Stick a balloon on the airlock and collect the co2

 

[Dutto]

Saw the article and thought "That's the perfect example of the word 'irony', an industry that produces zillions of cubic whatnots of CO2 running out of CO2!"

BTW, on the TV programme "How Do They Do It" the same day there was a programme about the Trappist Chimay beer and how the production is now so big that the monks have had to hand it over to professional brewers,

The Good News is that every bottle is naturally carbonated so you can harvest the yeast and create a Starter ...:thumb:

... the Bad News is that they re-seed the beer after bottling so you may get a different yeast than the one they use for the original fermentation. :cheers7: