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Old Sierra Nevada Beer to Become Ethanol Gas

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Are we really this hard up for gasoline? Are you absolutely certain that there’s no other way??

In truth, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company has teamed up with those E-Fuel guys we told you about. E-Fuel has developed a system/machine to turn simple sugar and yeast into alcohol and then ethanol. (Really, it’s not so different from brewing beer.)

https://gizmodo.com/e-fuel-microfueler-turns-sugar-stale-beer-into-gas-for-384660

Sierra Nevada is installing an EFuel100 MicroFueler in-house to turn 1.6 million gallons of otherwise discarded yeast for brewing (yearly) into the source ingredients of what we’re sure is a very, very tasty high grade ethanol gasoline. We can drink to that. (beer, not ethanol)

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