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Fuel From Yeast Slurry?

posted on February 6, 2009 in Beer in the News

Sierra Nevada to turn beer yeast into fuel

The Sacremento Business Journal published an article on Sierra Nevada’s recent move to using it’s discard yeast as an agent to increase the level of alcohol in Ethanol. 

Los Gatos-based E-Fuel, the inventor of the world’s first home ethanol system — the Efuel100 MicroFueler — and Sierra Nevada have agreed to house MicroFuelers at the brewery in Chico, enabling Sierra Nevada to manufacture its own ethanol using waste from its brewing process.

Read entire article:  http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2009/02/02/daily26.html

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