Brewery to make beer from wastewater

I wouldn't blink twice about drinking beer made with properly treated recycled water.

 

Yeah, it does depend on the local geology but a number of commercial breweries use high quality well water to brew their beers.

Cheers!

Edit: And the difference between a deep well vs. a shallow well.

 

Well water is very variable.
If your well is shallow and only feet from a source of pollution, a septic or maybe a storm drain, then you have problems.
If you have a deep well it might be very good water. If the well is supplied by fractured rock and the fracture leads to the historic Acme Chemical dump then you have a problem. And so on.

It is not uncommon to see old hand dug wells on a farm, open to the environment with just a board or maybe a big stone across the top. Leaves, rain, chipmunks. You name it, it gets in there. People have a remarkable disconnect between their well and the water coming out of the faucet.

Municipal water in the developed world is a modern marvel. I mean that. If there is even a small screw-up in the system it makes the local news and sometimes becomes national headlines.
Cheers.

 

And sometimes it takes a long time for national news exposure. I feel sorry for the folks in Flint, MI.

Cheers!

 

Considering there's basically only a finite amount of water on the earth, unless your favorite brewery is using the Martha Stewart method and making their own water out of fresh, free-range oxygen and hydrogen, all water is recycled water.

 

I'll drink it! This is not sewer water for Pete's sake!
I agree with @StoneGreg : I'd gladly pay for a pint to try it! I've consumed worse things in my lifetime than beer produced using recycled greywater.

 

You better just give up beer then, ALL water is treated wastewater, Do you think new water just appears like magick?

 

Im pretty sure I just watched a documentary recently and saw that New Belgium was doing this too, back in 2002. Honestly alot of breweries are probably doing it already and we dont know, because its technically clean drinking water.

 

I'm sure the reviews will read something like that of the cheap macros, lots of "taste like piss" and "piss water" and "urine like taste" lol. I always get a kick out of the beer reviews that claim it taste like piss! Naturally I wonder what else the person has been drinking over the years.

 

When I was in school at Davis the brewing program did an experiment to make beer out of water from Putah Creek, which is disgusting looking water. The idea was that it'd be perfectly safe to drink from the boiling stage and sure enough it was safe to drink. In some documentary that mentioned the experiment they showed footage of when they gave it to unsuspecting students at a local bar, they couldn't tell the difference. My professor later told me they never did that gotcha tasting thing and that the beer was terrible.

 

Now if only they made beer They make an array of pretty average uninspired beer flavors that I can pick up at most drug stores or gas stations.

 

Let's keep breweries out of Flint,Michigan....please.

 

If they have it advertised, I'm not taking that bottle.

 

Just don't tell me.

 

I recently had a beer form Snoqualmie Falls brewing called "Bunghole" Brown Ale.
Hmmm, kinda makes me wonder....

 

Why Not? Brewers have made beer with Bull Testicles and Sheep Shit Smoked Malt. Yet, recycled water...eww!

 

Are there any breweries that recycle their own "waste" water for reuse? There is a lot of rinsing in the brewing process. Some chemicals, but a lot of just rinsing different pieces of equipment.

 

☑ Showering with treated water
☑ Cooking with treated water
☑ Making coffee with treated water
☑ Brushing your teeth with treated water
☓ Drinking Beer (which must be boiled) made with treated water which is likely to be even cleaner from the get-go than the tap water used for all those other things [HARD PASS]

Makes sense.