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Fort George seeks county help to capture brewery CO2, staff to bring $200,000 grant for approval
Summary
Fort George Brewing asked Clatsop County to use the Industrial Development Revolving Fund to help install CO2 recapture equipment; brewery and staff say the system could eliminate outside CO2 purchases and produce a model other breweries could copy. Staff will return in two weeks with a $200,000 grant request for board approval.
Fort George Brewing told the Clatsop County Board of Commissioners it wants to install equipment to capture and compress CO2 created during fermentation so the brewery can reuse it rather than buying commercially produced CO2.
Chris, a Fort George representative, said the brewery already uses nitrogen generation for some processes but needs pressurized CO2 for others. "We can get completely independent of CO2 purchases by the end of the year," Chris…
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