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California company turns recycled shower, sink water into beer
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| AUG. 1, 2023 / 2:30 PM
| By Ben Hooper
Posted on 08/02/2023 7:49:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A California company parlayed its water recycling expertise into the creation of a beer made from a San Francisco residential building's wastewater.
Epic Cleantec, a San Francisco-based water treatment company, teamed with Devil's Canyon Brewing Co. to create Epic OneWater Brew, a Kölsch-style ale made using recycled water from showers, sinks and washing machines in Fifteen Fifty, a 40-story luxury apartment building.
"Buildings globally use 14% of all potable water," Aaron Tartakovsky, CEO and co-founder of Epic Cleantec, told CNN. "Almost no buildings reuse that water -- that's what we're trying to change."
The beer is not currently for sale due to regulations banning recycled wastewater from being used in commercial beverages, but it proved to be a big hit at a conference on sustainable building technologies.
"We ended up producing just over 7,000 cans, not as a commercial product, but as an educational effort," Tartakovsky said. "It was meant to tell the water reuse story in a new way. But frankly, we did not anticipate the tremendous response that we saw."
Tartakovsky said the company is now in talks with other breweries around the world.
"We have a lot of people who are asking for more of it, just because beyond being an interesting environmental story, the beer actually just tastes really good," he said.
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To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/02/2023 7:51:07 AM PDT
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Larry Lucido
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To: Red Badger
The only thing missing is the “Pride” rainbow.
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posted on
08/02/2023 7:51:26 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
("There's no cryin' in baseball and there's no ethics in politics!" )
To: Red Badger
I didn’t know enough people showered in California. LOL
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posted on
08/02/2023 7:52:13 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Red Badger
This story is ripe for the Babylon Bee.
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posted on
08/02/2023 7:52:31 AM PDT
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fwdude
To: Red Badger; SaveFerris; PROCON; gundog
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08/02/2023 7:52:44 AM PDT
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Larry Lucido
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To: fwdude
In other news, Anheuser-Bush just figured out what to do with all that unsold Bud Light..............
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posted on
08/02/2023 7:53:36 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Gray water brew: what an attractive concept.
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posted on
08/02/2023 7:55:07 AM PDT
by
PUGACHEV
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
The Aussies are already doing this, apparently.
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posted on
08/02/2023 7:56:13 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: Red Badger
--- "California company turns recycled shower, sink water into beer"
This stuff just writes itself.
It's not like water isn't available, and the water cycle "collapsing."
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/02/2023 7:56:52 AM PDT
by
DugwayDuke
(Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
To: Red Badger
A more accurate headline would be, “California company turns recycled shower, sink water into clean water for making beer”
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posted on
08/02/2023 8:00:00 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Perhaps we should be less concerned with who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire.)
To: DugwayDuke; Red Badger
Waste water is waste water: toilet, sink, shower... all goes into that 6” pipe from homes to the water co’s reservoir, for ‘recycling’. I’ll pass.
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posted on
08/02/2023 8:01:13 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
“A more accurate headline would be, “California company turns recycled shower, sink water into clean water for making beer””
Headline is more correct. They made beer.
To: Carriage Hill
Rain water.
Waste water.
Evaporated water.
Rain water.
rinse, repeat.
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posted on
08/02/2023 8:05:08 AM PDT
by
DugwayDuke
(Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
To: Red Badger
The fact that this is San Francisco somehow makes this especially unattractive.
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posted on
08/02/2023 8:05:33 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(It's not a government. It's a criminal enterprise. Fear it, but do not respect it.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/02/2023 8:08:06 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: Red Badger
Maybe the Olympia Brewing Company’s trademark expired and they can buy it.
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posted on
08/02/2023 8:08:33 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(We are proles, they are nobility.)
To: DugwayDuke
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08/02/2023 8:08:40 AM PDT
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Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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