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Whiskey: a solution to the world's energy demands?

...whisky will solve the world's energy problems is if we all have a few glasses and quit worrying so much. I suppose that's less "solve" than "dissolve", but it's got to be worth a try.

Actually, the more common use for brewing and distilling byproducts is feeding it to livestock. When I was growing up my family had a hog farm, and we used to get "brewer's grain", the leftover barley from making beer. It was an excellent feed (no, the hogs didn't get drunk, although they did put on an extra layer of backfat).

Today with the US drought, hog and cattle farmers are feeding whatever they can get their hands on. I just heard that cattle feedlots are feeding their cattle surplus gummy worms. Brewers and distillers wanting to get rid of their byproducts will probably find more money selling it to feedlots. There may cases where local brewers and distillers don't have feedlots nearby, but generally it will always be in great demand by the livestock industry.

In the US of A, our whiskey is corn liquor... Ethanol.

Indy racing cars run on 100% "fuel grade ethanol". What is it? It's 200 proof grain alcohol (100% corn liquor) with just a touch of gasoline added in to make it non-drinkable. Otherwise, this ethanol would be taxed as an alcoholic beverage.

DW writes above "recent record setting draughts". If I take this as written, it means the Guiness Book of Records must be recording how much whiskey individuals are swallowing in one go. I don't see the connection between this and whiskey by-products, although they may be. I suspect he meant "droughts", however.

I hope that it will bring the price of wiskey down. Then I can drink more wiskey and less water.

you must need to stop drinking alcohol is that once you develop into dependent on alcohol, your finances are probably to endure as an extended publicity to this destructive material results to cravings identical to almost every other medications, please just get rid of it. fetal alcohol

whisky will solve the world's energy problems is if we all have a few glasses and quit worrying so much. I suppose that's less "solve" than "dissolve", but it's got to be worth a try.