Originally Posted by
andrewclaus
I took an engineer's tour of the Coors brewery in Golden, CO. The plant engineer leading the tour showed us a couple of rail tanker cars full of ethanol, a byproduct of the beer process. He told us they add "a few gallons" of gasoline to each car to "denature" (poison) it before shipping. It's much cheaper that way, he said, because of taxes on drinking alcohol.
Way off topic, but this confuses me. Why would they have so much ethanol from making beer? Shouldn't it be IN the beer, and how do they extract it? WTH? ASFAIK the main by product of the beer process is CO2.