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.
New Tide flavor?
Funny. I was out there recently and one station kept running “Public Service” announcements that implored everyone to “pee in the shower” to save water.
California company turns recycled shower, sink water into beer
That would be California Bud Lite beer.
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