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.
Boy Howdy, that is going to be a hard sell.
I remember about 10-12 years ago, I was told that waste treatment plant in Arizona City, Arizona’s finished product was cleaner than the drinking water of a couple of larger cities nearby.
The only place they were selling to was the local golf club for irrigation though.
Pretty much what Bud Light has done for a while.
And what water did they use to make their beer?
AKA “Bud Light”!
Headline: California company turns recycled shower, sink water into beer
We used to omit the word “the” from Oly’s slogan.
“I’ll pass”? you did mean “I’ll piss”...right?
How much energy was used, directly or indirectly, to “purify” the water?
Are we running out of water? I don’t understand the point of this.
>I don’t understand the point of this.<
Feel-good, virtue signaling, greenie weenie stuff.................
“All water is recycled.”
I tend to prefer nature’s distillation cycle. It’s very old and well proven.
Trying to outdo Miller as America’s piss water beer perhaps?
Excellent
Rice a Roni the San Francisco treat
Y’all are so lucky. Drinking from pure wells and springs. Glacier melt from tropical islands.
Our local water source is downriver from wastewater treatment, the next town’s is downriver from ours, and so on.
Just getting a leg up on the competition............
Just another reason why I don’t drink anymore......................😜
ProtectOurFreedom wrote: “I tend to prefer nature’s distillation cycle. It’s very old and well proven.”
What we think of as ‘pure’ water has been recycled millions of times. Every glass of water you drink contains water that was once Napoleon’s urine.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-horse-so-bad-we-all-drink-napoleons-urine-gknc50mms7c
Our water comes from Alabama due to salt water intrusion into our local city/county wells..................
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