With manufacturing below full capacity and imports scarce, producers of CO2 are prioritising critical medical and water ...

Brewers who run bars are being bitten twice by a shortage of carbon dioxide. The gas is integral to beer production, used in ...

Brewers in the Whanganui and Ruapehu regions have had to change the way they produce beer in order to account for the ...

Mic Heynekamp of Eddyline Brewery with the companies new carbon dioxide (CO2) capture system and the existing bottled CO2 ...

OPINION: The idiosyncratic and wonderfully creative breweries that make up NZ's craft beer industry are under immense ...

Around 50 brewers from across the country will descend on Christchurch's Hagley Park this weekend, for the annual Great Kiwi Beer Festival.  Up to 12,000 people are expected through the gates to ...

Counter Culture Board Game Cafe and Bar manager Jack Tallott said they had stopped serving tap beer after using their last CO2 reserves last week. "Obviously tap beers require CO2 ...

Some bars are absorbing the extra costs in the short-term, but warn they may have to lift prices if the shortage continues.

NEW GLARUS (WKOW) — Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is an ingredient in beer, and a continuing shortage of it could be bad news for brew lovers. The issue, though, has pushed some breweries to tap into new ...

Prices for CO2 in New Zealand have risen eightfold in some cases as a result of a supply crunch caused by production problems. Raewyn Bleakley, CEO of the NZ Food and Grocery Council (FCG), said CO2 ...

What's worse than a pub with no beer? A country with no beer. While we're a wee way off that, a nationwide shortage of liquid CO2 - carbon dioxide - could halt beer production for some brewers.

Matt Connell Wines director Matt Connell said CO2 was largely used to purge tanks of oxygen and protect the wine. Central Otago winemakers could use a different gas, but CO2 was preferred and it was a ...