Whiskey makers have a little-known or talked about reputation for having more of a carbon footprint than beer or wine. We can try to rationalize it all we want, maybe in the terms that we drink less Scotch than we would beer or wine on a night on the town, but in the end the process of making whiskey has a larger carbon footprint than softer alcoholic beverages. A couple of whiskey makers are striving to change that by taking the leavings from the fermentation process and converting them into fuel.
Celtic Renewables was founded to both produce whiskey and produce biofuel by fermenting the leavings in a soup and extracting biofuel from that “soup”. For more, see Mother Jones.
