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W O R K F O R M E / S P R I N G 2 0 2 3 52 efficient as possible, right from the jump." In addition to strategies more commonly employed by other breweries, Sacred Profane opts to serve beer right out of copper serving tanks, suspended from the ceiling over the bar in an "actually quite beautiful" way, Fava says. That, he says, delivers "the biggest savings." But the brewery also imple- ments bag-in-tank technology, which Fava calls a newer type of set-up. Essentially, a big plas- tic liner is used to shield the beer from the tank, allowing a brewery to use compressed air instead of an inert gas to push the beer out of the system. Fava says that even without the heightened costs and less- ened availability, the bag-in- tank system would be beneficial to improve the overall drinking experience. At a small number of brew- eries, innovative carbon re- capture technology has been deployed to further reduce demand for new shipments. But many can't afford to in- stall such systems, according to Rowan. "Ideally we'd have a CO 2 re- capturing system in place, but they are prohibitively expensive for all but the largest of brewer- ies," he says. Love says that Maine Brew- ing Co. commissioned and in- stalled its system in November, although the idea had been kicking around in their heads for a while. "We had had multiple quotes, we had gone back-and-forth and says, 'Hey, is this the year where we finally do it?'" says Love. "Then everything happened with the CO 2 market, and sud- denly we are in a good spot to really invest this time and money to make this happen." n « C O N T I N U E D F R O M P R E V I O U S PAG E Bangor • Portland • Portsmouth • (207) 827-4496 • (800) 648-4202 • sewall.com C I V I L E N G I N E E R I N G O P P O R T U N I T I E S AVA I L A B L E : Project Engineer • Civil CAD Design INFRASTRUCTURE FOR NEW ENGLAND 2022 Scan code for more information Join our team! Grow. Be challenged. Make a difference. Head brewer Brienne Allan with Michael Fava, brewery operations manager, at the Sacred Profane brewery in Biddeford. They had the advantage of designing construction around "processes that are as efficient as possible, right from the jump." P H O T O / T I M G R E E N W A Y T e c h n o l o g y

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