California Brewery Uses Air-Captured CO₂ for Beer
Why this is here: Almanac Beer’s collaboration with Aircapture allows the brewery to produce its own food-grade CO₂ on-site, avoiding reliance on potentially unstable industrial supply chains.
A California brewery is now using carbon dioxide directly captured from the air to produce beer. Almanac Beer partnered with Aircapture, a company specializing in extracting and purifying atmospheric CO₂, to create Almanc x Aircapture Flow West Coast Pale Ale.
This allows the brewery to bypass traditional CO₂ supply chains and associated price fluctuations. Food-grade CO₂ has faced potential shortages, like in the US in 2022, because it is often a byproduct of industrial processes using fossil fuels. A shift towards renewable energy and “green” ammonia production is reducing this byproduct.
Aircapture’s Direct-Air-Capture technology filters CO₂ from the air using specialized adsorbents, releasing pure liquid CO₂ with 99.999% purity. The brewery integrates Aircapture’s system into its facilities, securing on-site CO₂ production and avoiding delivery costs. Almanac Beer will also share a portion of proceeds from the “Flow” edition with the climate organization Carbon180.