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Brewers and craft beer drinkers looking to reduce their carbon footprint are in luck.

Lolo Peak Brewery is set to become Montana’s first carbon-dioxide-recycling brewery — capturing the CO2 produced in the brewing process to carbonate and serve its beer.

Missoula-based COBrew, the company building the recycling system, will co-host an informative beer tasting at the brewery Monday evening to meet with other brewery owners and beer drinkers to show off the technology and the beer produced with it.

After a few months of perfecting the design of the CO2 recycler at Lolo Peak Brewery, the technology will be available to other breweries looking to cut their emissions and spend less on CO2 needed for carbonation.

Lolo Peak head brewer Paul Roys said he was happy to move craft-brewing toward a more sustainable practice.

“The cost savings aren’t huge, but if the sustainability makes me feel really good, why wouldn’t I want to do it?” Roys said. “Producing all that carbon dioxide and letting it just float away is essentially throwing out an ingredient. Being able to reuse it and make it full circle is a huge benefit.”