Grey Sail Brewing
After a decade of beer brewing in the beach town of Westerly, Rhode Island, Grey Sail Brewing has grown from a small operation brewing up batches of its signature Flagship Ale to a regional purveyor of more than half a dozen different beers.
Located across the street from the Pawcatuck River, the company’s original home in a former pasta factory has expanded to more than 8,000 square feet. Next door is a new distillery for spirits, and beyond that, a bright yellow colonial houses a taproom and beer garden.
But with all that growth comes a larger carbon footprint. So a few months ago, even as the pandemic had slowed their business, owners Alan and Jennifer Brinton made a new investment in sustainability.
WESTERLY, R.I. – Grey Sail Brewing of Rhode Island (Grey Sail) is the first craft brewery in the state to implement carbon technology to capture waste carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its production process and reuse it on-site to carbonate its beer. Earthly Lab’s plug-and-play carbon capture technology, called CiCi®, enables craft breweries like Grey Sail to capture waste CO2 from the brewing process equal to the absorption work of 1,500 trees each year and avoid releasing it to the atmosphere. Voluntary adoption of climate technologies like these will help Rhode Island achieve their state goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2035.