How about a ‘green’ beer? It’s our shout
Young Henrys brewers and UTS scientists are using algae to reduce the carbon footprint of your schooner.
Young Henrys co-founder Oscar McMahon with one of the algae-filled bioreactors.
Bioreactors teeming with microscopic algae are a surreal presence on the brew floor of independent Sydney brewer Young Henrys. Their green glow is like a sci-fi light show among the stainless steel tanks and brewing equipment.
This is no futuristic fiction, however.
The 400-litre bioreactors are the centrepiece of a research project involving scientists from the Climate Change Cluster (C3) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the Inner West brewery. Algae housed in the bioreactors capture CO2, a byproduct of the brewing process, and release oxygen.
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