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Beermaker to Be Fined Daily Over Rotten Egg Smell

Eric Sorensen

A brewery in Wisconsin has residents foaming at the mouth. Unfortunately, it's not after enjoying a pint. 

For the better part of nine years, a leak in a containment vessel in the City Brewing Company's bioreactor has been belching hydrogen sulfide into the air. As a result, the community in La Crosse, Wisconsin, has been subjected to a smell akin to rotten eggs. 

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