Beer + Recycled Water = ???

There's only a finite amount of water on the earth, so all water has been recycled repeatedly.

 

I only drink free range coastal water.

 

Depends on what it's recycled from.

 

Beer is at least 98% water........ no wonder beer from Northern Vermont is some of the best in the world.

 

well damn why does it cost so much then

 

I suppose this is tangentially related absolutely crazy idea. What would happen if you made beer with salt water? Here's my idea, use salt water instead of regular water and during the boil, boil and collect the vapor as the wort. Pitch with yeast and see what happens?

Will the boil only leave you with purified water collected, or would you be able to keep enough of the malt and such to actually make a beer?

 

You do realize that almost all beer is at least 4% alcohol, if not 2x or 3x that much....

 

Oh FFS........ Water being the MAIN ingredient in beer..........

 

Have been for years! Southern California water = farm runoff, and treated water pumped into Colorado River, Ca. Aquaduct, and the All American Canal. Can't complain about the final outcome of (a large percentage of) CA beer products. Cheers!

 

It can take up to 8 gallons or more of water to make one gallon of beer. Reducing the amount of water used to make beer can have a bigger impact that using recycled water in beer. Full Sail Brewery has gotten their water use down to 2.5 gallons per gallon of beer, New Belgium is down to about 3.5 gallons per gallon of beer, Victory is down to 4.93. A&B is shooting for something in the 3 to 3.5 range.

In Minneapolis we get our water from the Mississippi River. Several towns upstream discharge their waste water to the river so we are already drinking beer and water that has been recycled.

 

The link didn't take me to the article but I must know, did the article teach you how to determine whether the beer you drink is brewed with recycled water or is this a talent you had before you read the article? Sorry for the 'tude but I can't fathom how someone would make such a determination. And seeing that bottles and cans are not [yet] marked with 'made with recycled water' warnings, this seems like a moot point. But if there is something, anything, that makes it 100% certain that a beer is made with recycled water, please let us know.

 

Sorry, just part of my crusade to educate people that 85.437% of statistics on the internet are made up.

 

Just had this beer in Spain. Brewed with Mediterraenean sea water. It was honestly really bad, but don't think due to the sea water. Also don't know the details of the brewing process, but thought I'd show you one that is actually brewed with sea water. I was extremely intrigued when I saw it on the shelf

 

While I'm enlightening people check out this beer. Love the Sea Shepherds and it's awesome they did this.
Edit: or you could get 3 Utopias and a few Rare's for the same price. If you're into that stuff..

 

Wow. And I was trying to find the most remote location possible. Who knew.

 

If it won't make me sick, and it helps people, fine. I don't need or want anymore details about it.

 

LOL. Ya when I saw your comment I'm like Okay I know he's thinking there's no such thing but I instantly thought of that beer....Maybe you want to look for a beer with water from Mozambique, Rwanda or any other drought stricken country

 

If you looked at a satellite map, you would probably see a water treatment plant near some of your favorite breweries in large cities. That being said, many breweries filter and tweak the water by adding calcium chloride, etc. to get the ph right. So as far as recycled water is concerned, I am not. I trust the breweries are on top of things. If they weren't we would know about it.

 

No wonder beer from Northern California is some of the best in the world!