Possible CO2 shortage in the UK

[marshbrewer]

Interestingly, in order to reduce their carbon footprint, Cooper's in Australia capture and process the CO2 from fermenting and reuse it, although I don't know what for as I thought all their beers were bottle conditioned.

 

[peebee]

Why don't the Pubs switch to methane? For starters we generate loads of gas on this forum. And then there are all the pig farms (those not already converted to supply Bartertown).

Bit of a taint to the gas? No problem, ...

(Warning; CAMRA moment) …

… keg beers taste like crap anyway.

 

[-Bezza-]

Nothing irks me more about CAMRA than their constant "if it's been carbed with CO2, it's not worth drinking".

 

[Sadfield]

The double irony of breweries consuming co2 whilst at the same time producing large amounts of co2 that could be harvested. Yet, if they harvested that co2 inject it back into beer, then the beer somehow becomes inferior. [emoji16]

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[peebee]

The double irony of breweries consuming co2 whilst at the same time producing large amounts of co2 that could be harvested. Yet, if they harvested that co2 inject it back into beer, then the beer somehow becomes inferior. [emoji16]

You are saying CAMRA would consider beer injected with harvested CO2 somehow becomes inferior? I'm not sure they do?

A Scottish brewery notorious for producing inferior beer (although popular) do try to circumnavigate the CAMRA ideals by using CO2 that was originally produced by that beer (i.e. no "extraneous" CO2). I find it odd that this company put so much effort into trying to get (force) CAMRA to accept their swill, yet at the same time try to discredit CAMRA?

 

[F00b4r]

Stick a balloon on the airlock and collect the co2

Or....

 

[connor7932]

i went to fill my pub bottle up last week,he said got none, come back tomorrow.bottle now full.
but lidl had NO canned larger for 4 days,might end up with mate,s i don,t won,t

 

[stevey]

This is serious, haven't you seen that youtube video of that bird who couldn't get her nuggets? Imagine all millennials rioting, us boomer baby generation will get the blame obviously, it'll be like The Purge. Board up your windows now.:angry:

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Scottish pigs are happy they use it in a slaughter house to stun the pigs so they have been forced to close.

 

[Dutto]

........... but Lidl had NO canned larger for 4 days,..........

In the dreaded days of old we didn't have a local Lidl and we didn't run out of CO2. Happy Days! :thumb:

It was a magical time. We only worked three days a week and had power cuts so we could spend evenings with our families.

Obviously, we didn't have any TV but that didn't matter because we had the famous "Dunkirk Spirit" where we pretended that a major defeat was in reality a victory.

We were also lucky to have so much time without TV because, as we ran out of candles and toilet paper, we needed to sit around in the dark of an evening cutting up newspapers into squares; and there was no shortage of scissors!

Happy Days, that may very well return in the near future! :thumb:

 

[Hoddy]

The double irony of breweries consuming co2 whilst at the same time producing large amounts of co2 that could be harvested. Yet, if they harvested that co2 inject it back into beer, then the beer somehow becomes inferior. [emoji16]

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The funny thing there is that the very LARGE beer producers do actually collect the co2 which it is then chilled and compressed.

But actually no one “makes” Co2. It’s actually recovered from “by products” coming from other manufacturing processes. The biggest one being ammonia production.

It just so happens that the 3 biggest ammonia plants in Northern Europe are shut down at the same time as the only 2 liquid Co2 import tank farms (it all comes in on boat tankers) which are both t’up north.

I know this because we do the control system work for the only company (PraxAir) that does liquid co2 import and dry ice production for the uk.

And that’s why we’re are super busy to help build a third uk co2 import facility in Hounslow and they want it to be ready by December. Funny that.

But yeah, thankfully I have only just started on a new 6.3kg bottle myself..... phew!!




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[Gunge]

Why don't the Pubs switch to methane? For starters we generate loads of gas on this forum. And then there are all the pig farms (those not already converted to supply Bartertown).

Bit of a taint to the gas? No problem, ...

(Warning; CAMRA moment) …

… keg beers taste like crap anyway.

Call it Burton Snatch and tell 'em it's a new craft ale... sorted.