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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: TornadoAlley3

I make my own from scratch.................


41 posted on 08/02/2023 8:39:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

1. Go out and drink beer.
2. Go home and take a shower.
3. Pee in the shower.
4. Go out and drink recycled shower water.


42 posted on 08/02/2023 8:43:03 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Red Badger

And nobody noticed... sez alot about the swill usually consumed.

Make your own, you’ll be glad you did.


43 posted on 08/02/2023 8:44:57 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Red Badger

44 posted on 08/02/2023 8:46:45 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I did a little growing up in the northwest and I remember the parents either drinking Rainier Beer or Oly.

Years later I get in the military and I get stationed out on the west coast and I am went and bought a six pack of Oly and it wasn’t all that good.

I think Hamms or Stroth’s was a better Brew, but then - I’m not much of a beer enthusiast anyway.


45 posted on 08/02/2023 8:49:11 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Red Badger

Tastes kinda like Willie Brown? Horizontal would know.


46 posted on 08/02/2023 8:56:55 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: DugwayDuke

In the same vein, I remember in one of my mechanical engineering courses we had to calculate the number of air molecules breathed by Jesus in each breath you take. It was a fascinating problem (and you can find solutions to it all over the web today, unlike in 1972).


47 posted on 08/02/2023 9:02:52 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: Red Badger

Archie Bunker: “You don’t buy beer, you only rent it.”


48 posted on 08/02/2023 9:03:04 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Clutch Martin

I grew up in upstate NY and then high school and college in Missouri. After that I went to California, discovered Anchor Steam Beer, and never looked back. It was like discovering sourdough bread in San Fran for the first time, too.


49 posted on 08/02/2023 9:05:44 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: TexasGator
Headline is more correct. They made beer.
Headline: California company turns recycled shower, sink water into beer

Really?


50 posted on 08/02/2023 9:05:54 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: Bloody Sam Roberts

“They used purified shower and sink water to make beer.”

Hmmm...using magic?

Beer is more than water.


51 posted on 08/02/2023 9:08:38 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Red Badger

That’s disgusting!


52 posted on 08/02/2023 9:09:40 AM PDT by Dave911
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To: heartwood
Our local water source is downriver from wastewater treatment...

I wouldn't drink it, unless I distilled it. (fluoride, chloroform, chlorine etc)

You can buy a home water distiller, or make one from a stovetop pressure cooker and some tubing.

53 posted on 08/02/2023 9:09:46 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Dave911

That’s CALIFORNIA!......................


54 posted on 08/02/2023 9:13:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: TexasGator

55 posted on 08/02/2023 9:17:35 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: DugwayDuke

Then the question becomes do you trust the recycler....


56 posted on 08/02/2023 9:20:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Red Badger

The beer might be good or bad (I don’t like beer, so it’s all bad to me), but darn it, there’s nothing wrong with treated wastewater.


57 posted on 08/02/2023 9:27:41 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Reliable, punctual, trained. "Staff stand.")
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To: Qwapisking

Yes, THAT!


58 posted on 08/02/2023 9:29:46 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Red Badger

They can take dirty dish water, soapy washing machine water, water from people masturbating in the shower or washing their asses and balls, douche water, and piss, and run it through a reverse osmosis water filter where it comes out as pure clean water, and it would be just fine for drinking. Telling people where they got it is enough to stop them from getting anywhere near it. Except for some people who are going to relish the idea and you want to stay as far away from them as possible.


59 posted on 08/02/2023 10:02:22 AM PDT by webheart
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To: Magnum44

LOL !


60 posted on 08/02/2023 10:12:52 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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