CO2 shortage hits Britain

**Disco-tastic** · 29th June 2018, 10:26 PM

Originally Posted by rick130

A mate of mine, a pom, loves his Ale, and there's a really good little brewery/pub in Canberra named The Bent Spoke.
They have a couple of hand pumped ales from the cellar, my mate Ian's favourite being Braddon Bitter.
In a Canberra winter the cellar temp is nearly as bloody cold as the chilled IPA's the rest of us were drinking and a long way below 15°

He's venturing north next week so we're going to visit Stone and Wood and Byron Bay Brewing co.

and getting back to the CO2 issue, the pubs and clubs that use pumps to push the beer from the keg to the Font use roughly half as much CO2 or cellar mix (a CO2/nitrogen mix) than those that rely on CO2 to carbonate and push the beer through.

If you can stop by the Little Brewing Company in Port Macquarie. They do a nice Tripel and their Christmas All Quadrupel is amazing. Drink a couple sitting down and you won't stand up!

**biggin** · 30th June 2018, 09:09 AM

Although an extremely dedicated fizzy, cold beer drinker in Australia, I found that in England I much preferred the warmer “real ale”. However this could be due to the questionable quality of English lager.

**loanrangie** · 30th June 2018, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by biggin

Although an extremely dedicated fizzy, cold beer drinker in Australia, I found that in England I much preferred the warmer “real ale”. However this could be due to the questionable quality of English lager.

I loved the bitters but Stella on tap was good.

**workingonit** · 30th June 2018, 10:56 PM

So there's a risk I will no longer be able to mix my beer fizz with argon when GMAWing! (welding joke).

**3toes** · 1st July 2018, 07:14 AM

In the pub during the week had run out of most beers however there was no shortage of Carlsberg. Let you make your own mind up what that means.

**Toxic_Avenger** · 1st July 2018, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by workingonit

So there's a risk I will no longer be able to mix my beer fizz with argon when GMAWing! (welding joke).

As long as you only drink one beer per 20 bottles of argon you use, you'll be right.
And we all know that Beer to Welding ratio is waaaay off.

**ramblingboy42** · 2nd July 2018, 06:14 PM

Beer brewing commercially produces huge quantities of CO2.

After cyclone Tracy in Darwin, I was working at the NT Brewery and we drew the CO2 off the fermenting tanks and using a multistage compressor and heaps of copper piping through the coldrooms we filled bottles with CO2 for the local CIG company. I have no idea where they normally get their CO2 . Anyone know?

**Toxic_Avenger** · 2nd July 2018, 07:03 PM

Sources of CO2 are brewing / fermenting by-products, chemical manufacture (eg ammonia).
BP's Bulwer island hydrocarbon cracking plant also produced CO2 as well as many other products.
Big plants, big infrastructure. Despite popular belief, It's not as easy as putting a funnel over the top of the Tooheys New vat and pumping the CO2 into a bottle.
Offshore production would involve manufacture by a 3rd party, shipping around the globe in ISO tanks and various decanting and filling operations- each step introducing contaminants / impurities.

**Mick_Marsh** · 2nd July 2018, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

Beer brewing commercially produces huge quantities of CO2.

After cyclone Tracy in Darwin, I was working at the NT Brewery and we drew the CO2 off the fermenting tanks and using a multistage compressor and heaps of copper piping through the coldrooms we filled bottles with CO2 for the local CIG company. I have no idea where they normally get their CO2 . Anyone know?

CO2 producing power stations.
SA Power station putting the bubbles in beer by capturing carbon dioxide - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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