This California Brewery Is Carbonating Beer With Air-Captured CO₂
The CO₂ in your beer probably came from an ammonia plant. Or an ethanol refinery. Or — if you’re drinking Almanac Beer Company’s new “Flow – Clean Air Edition” — straight from the sky above a parking lot in Alameda, California. Almanac just launched what appears to be the world’s first commercial beer carbonated entirely with CO₂ captured from ambient air via direct air capture. Their partner, Berkeley-based Aircapture, installed a modular DAC unit in the brewery’s parking lot — it looks like an oversized HVAC unit with a chimney — that pulls CO₂ from the air and liquefies it to beverage-grade purity (99.999%). The beer is already available at 800+ retailers across California, including Safeway, Whole Foods, Total Wine, and BevMo. ...