From Brewery Waste to Clean Water and Energy

A recent news article covers a new company called Cambrian Innovation and their product, a microbial mix that turns brewery waste into clean water and energy. Two California breweries are currently using the product. Energy is produced by burning the methane produced by the microbes as they metabolize waste from the beer brewing process. The water …

I love that @eLIFE is publishing draft papers now (brewery microbiome)

OK that was deceptive of me.  This is not a draft paper.  But it is a paper about drafts – beer that is:  Mapping microbial ecosystems and spoilage-gene flow in breweries highlights patterns of contamination and resistance | eLife. And, well, I am a bit biased since it came from UC Davis colleagues, but it …