Sewage beer!

You are absolutely right - the plant I am familiar with is owned by a community that is not worried about cost effectiveness. they just wanted to demonstrate that it is technically feasible and they can afford to do things that way. They could brew beer with the water but it has all the character of distilled water so you would have to treat it back to something worth brewing with. To me it would make more sense to use the effluent as process water - cleaning, cooling and so forth rather than for beer even it it meets drinking water standards. Like I said - its a stunt - but it is important for people to know that it is technically feasible.

 

I thought it had already been done
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/764/60730/

 

Salopian Entire Butt Porter should lead the way!

 

Nut Brown Ale? 55gal drum style keg...

 

This is awesome! It confirms that beer will survive the apocalypse.

 

The waste water is probably better than a lot of the city water that we all drink every day!

 

If you enjoyed what came from one man's beard, you'll LOVE what come's from Oregon's citizens anuses!

 

Kevin Costner wasn't turning his pee into soluble water at the beginning of Waterworld... he was making a light lager.

 

Question: If we have technology to remove all of the bacteria and bad stuff from sewage waste water, can't we figure out how to take seawater, remove the salt and purify it? Seems like it would be easier to me but I'm no scientist. Also would scratch off one of the worlds biggest issues (i.e. access to more fresh drinking water, irrigation water for growing plants/reduce desert creep etc).

 

Hello Sludgeman, I am also in the industry, on the engineering side (wastewater), we may even know each other!

What a few others have said is absolutely correct. Get used to it, its the future, its been happening indirectly for hundreds of years, and there is nothing wrong with it besides what we call "the ick factor".

 

My current understanding is that it can be already be done. The problem seems to be the cost/benefit issue. There's also a problem with transporting it to where the populations are clustered. Since water naturally flows down hill you also need to do something like build a pipeline and add pumping stations to get all that weight back uphill. (Unless you want to rely on a fleet of tanker trucks and the problems that would create.) So at the moment de-salinization is not cost effective very many places.

 

There's a reason I'm called sludgeman

The reuse of wastewater in a more direct to consumer use is inevitable. Millions of gallons of water are discharged back into rivers everyday just to be pulled out and retreated later. Rights to that discharged wastewater are even being discussed in some circles (e.g. Texas).

 

We do have this technology, its called reverse osmosis, and while the concept is simpler, it is not easier. It requires a great deal of energy, is very expensive to both build and operate, and is generally considered a last-ditch option.

 

So that's why Busch tastes like it does...they were the pioneers!...

 

Just don't drink the floaties.

 

Think we have something there that's even more gross sounding than rogue beard beer. I'll pass

 

Just saw this article and thought of this thread. Some of you may already be drinking reclaimed water (or beer made from it) every day, and not even know it.

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_...cled-sewage-to-push-expanding-reclaimed-water

 

No amount of beer knowledge on the part of a brewer will ever make me want to try this.