AtmosZero’s boiler undergoes final testing before being installed in the New Belgium Brewery.
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New Belgium Brewing will use an electric boiler made by AtmosZero to ferment beer and clean cans and kegs.
Fort Collins is a relatively small town and with a wizard’s beard, Andrew Collins is pretty easy to spot. Officially, he’s the carbon neutral engineer at New Belgium Brewing, a craft beer startup gone national. Unofficially, he’s “the climate guy” and is often cornered with ideas on how to save the planet — most of them relatively half-baked.
“Usually it’s like nails on a chalkboard to me,” Collins admits. But three years ago, a New Belgium colleague was chatting with a fellow dad at a kids’ soccer game and fielded a casual pitch: an electric boiler made by AtmosZero, a startup headquartered just down the road from the brewery.