[colug-432] The smell, the smell! (Re: Looking for info on Columbus)

[Robert Grimm]

That doesn't sound right. The smell is nearly identical to what I get during
the boil stage when I'm brewing my own beer. I always assumed they were
boiling wort when I can smell it.

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On Mar 1, 2011 12:44 PM, "Jeff Frontz" <jeff.frontz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unless they've dramatically changed their production methodology, the
> smell from the Bud plant is actually from drying the "spent mash"
> (whatever that gunk is that's left once they decant the wort). Once
> it's sufficiently dry, they ship it off to feed mills to turn into
> fake fodder. This used to really annoy the folks who found out about
> it-- we'd been thinking that we had to tolerate the smell in order to
> get the beer produced, but it was really the brewery seeking to make
> more money by selling their waste stream. That this was optional and
> that AB didn't do much to stem the reek didn't play well with the
> locals (especially those who have smell-induced migraines).
>
> I've noticed that the smell has changed quite a bit in the last 30 or
> so years. Not sure if that's because they changed their mash or went
> to a different process or that my sense of smell has deteriorated.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Jim Wildman <jim at rossberry.com> wrote:
>> The beer plant on the north that blankets the area with the smell of
>> fermentation on Sunday evening....
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