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Brewtroleum: In New Zealand, cars run on beer

Brewtroleum beer fuel

Did you know that in New Zealand, cars also run on beer? This does not mean that if you run out of fuel, you will be able to pour beer from a can into the tank, since it is a biofuel made from the remains of beer brewing and not beer as a final product, but nevertheless, the fuel of the Brewtroleum brewery DB Breweries sounds promising and is a great way to transport your steel horse in a more environmentally friendly way.

Alcohol and driving they don't go together. But biofuel Brewtroleum it's not a joke. In New Zealand you can actually pour it into your car's tank beer-based fuel.

The fuel tanker comes directly from the brewery.
The fuel tanker comes directly from the brewery.

But it's about biofuel and not a drink, so the idea of putting the handle in front of the mouth after quenching the steel horse's thirst is out of the question if you don't want to end up in the emergency room. But there will be, or already is, our planet, which we are destroying with our unhealthy "habits" (such as the use of oil, for example), so it is of every kind an alternative to fossil fuels welcome, especially if beer is involved. Brewtroleum, which in our opinion could be translated as "pivoncin", is ethanol mixture– by-product of yeast residues after brewing- and gasoline.

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At a gas station like this, where they dispense fuel from beer, it would certainly be crowded here.
At a gas station like this, where they dispense fuel from beer, it would certainly be crowded here.

The producer of this biofuel DB Breweries claims to be the first commercial fuel made from a by-product of beer. Since this is usually thrown away, it is a fantastic business move by the brewery, because it creates profit where there was none before, while at the same time reducing carbon dioxide emissions. When will that be environmentally friendly fuel the twist is not known elsewhere, but let's hope that soon a similar practice will be adopted elsewhere. Can you imagine that one of us dispensed Laška, and the other Union, instead of diesel and gasoline.

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