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California company turns recycled shower, sink water into beer
UPI ^ | 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

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.


21 posted on 08/02/2023 8:08:56 AM PDT by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: Red Badger

Pretty much what Bud Light has done for a while.


22 posted on 08/02/2023 8:09:54 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Red Badger

23 posted on 08/02/2023 8:10:39 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: TexasGator
Headline is more correct. They made beer.

And what water did they use to make their beer?

24 posted on 08/02/2023 8:11:39 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned with who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Or they can rephrase Hamm's: "From the Towers of Yellow Water"


25 posted on 08/02/2023 8:14:44 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ( Biden-Fetterman in ‘24: It's a no brainer)
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To: Red Badger

AKA “Bud Light”!


26 posted on 08/02/2023 8:15:47 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"And what water did they use to make their beer?"

Headline: California company turns recycled shower, sink water into beer

27 posted on 08/02/2023 8:15:53 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

We used to omit the word “the” from Oly’s slogan.


28 posted on 08/02/2023 8:16:19 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Carriage Hill

“I’ll pass”? you did mean “I’ll piss”...right?


29 posted on 08/02/2023 8:19:19 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Red Badger

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.


30 posted on 08/02/2023 8:23:47 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: oblomov

>I don’t understand the point of this.<

Feel-good, virtue signaling, greenie weenie stuff.................


31 posted on 08/02/2023 8:25:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: DugwayDuke

“All water is recycled.”

I tend to prefer nature’s distillation cycle. It’s very old and well proven.


32 posted on 08/02/2023 8:29:02 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: Red Badger

Trying to outdo Miller as America’s piss water beer perhaps?


33 posted on 08/02/2023 8:29:20 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Magnum44

Excellent


34 posted on 08/02/2023 8:31:29 AM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Red Badger

Rice a Roni the San Francisco treat


35 posted on 08/02/2023 8:33:06 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Red Badger

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.


36 posted on 08/02/2023 8:33:26 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: V_TWIN

Just getting a leg up on the competition............

37 posted on 08/02/2023 8:33:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: FamiliarFace

Just another reason why I don’t drink anymore......................😜


38 posted on 08/02/2023 8:35:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

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


39 posted on 08/02/2023 8:36:18 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: heartwood

Our water comes from Alabama due to salt water intrusion into our local city/county wells..................


40 posted on 08/02/2023 8:38:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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