Brewing Beer With Less Water While Battling Drought in Texas
From KERA News:
REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi /Landov
The beer menu sits on the bar in Luckenbach, Texas.
The drought has tested industries across Texas in the last few years — and it’s even had an impact on beer.
One of MillerCoors’ mega-breweries is in south Fort Worth, and last year it produced 9 million barrels of beer. Environmental and sustainability engineer Lairy Johnson says the plant cut its water use by 9 percent.
Highlights from the Interview with Lairy Johnson:
On how much water the Fort Worth plant uses a year:
- “In a year we use about 750 million gallons, but what we like to do is talk about how many barrels of water does it take to make a barrel of beer. In this past month we were about 3.18 barrels per barrel, 3.27 I think was our number last year for the average, and 3.21 is the year to date.” Continue Reading