Sierra Nevada Brew at the forefront

time for me to buy another case from sierra nevada, they are starting to turn the dreggs into fuel!

WTG

I wonder if MolBasser is going to get some fuel too 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10155476-54.html?subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&part=sphere

This makes me proud that I ordered two rounds of Sierra Nevada when I was at Sporty's Bikini Bar last weekend... 

Good for them, Pale Ale for cars

This makes me feel better about destroying a couple cases of the GreenLove a week...   

Maybe they should use the same process to raise the alcohol content of their beer. 

Costco in Danville has a Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA.  I bought a case today and just tried it and it's great.  The bottle doesn't list the alcohol content but I would guess it to be higher than their pale ale from the way it tastes.

Bottled Sierra Nevada Pale Ale has 1-2% higher ABV than it does on tap.  Something to keep in mind.    Also the article is a bit misleading, 1.6 million gallons of beer dregs only contains about 80k gallons of alcohol.  Their machine must also be adding more sugar to bump the alcohol level up to 15% before processing (even in the case of bigfoot).  I guess they're getting 1/3 of the way for free.  I'm a little disappointed though that they didn't build their own still - perhaps using waste heat from the steam system that powers their boilers. 

I read the other day that biodiesel could be extracted from used coffee grounds.  Not viable at the coffee shop level, but it is at the frappachino bottling facility level.  Doesn't hurt for cars to leave behind the smell of hops and java after they pass. 

Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA..........The bottle doesn't list the alcohol content

I saw that at the grocery store yesterday and it's 7.2% I believe - as opposed to 5.6% on the Green Label I think.

Had the Torpedo last saturday loved it, Abking is Right 7.2%

I looked up the bottle vs keg thing for sierra nevada and found this:
http://www.byo.com/stories/techniques/article/indices/19-brewing-tips/1484-tap-vs-bottle-oxygen-safety-mr-wizard
"Sierra Nevada Pale Ale draft beer is different from its bottled cousin in that the draft form is a little darker and has a lower original gravity compared to the bottled version. Both beers are excellent. I assume that their draft Pale Ale is intended to be more of a session beer and the difference in the recipe makes it more quaffable."

I think we have a member that works at Sierra Nevada, but he could probably only answer "I can neither confirm nor deny...". 

Man, it hard to read about beer this early in the morning!   The alcoholic in me is screaming NO! Don't read it! but like a bad train wreck Ya gota do it!