A refreshing beer might be made out of the water that you used to wash your face.
Epic Cleantec, a San Francisco-based water treatment company, collaborated with Devil’s Canyon Brewing Co. to create Epic OneWater Brew. The epic beer is made with recycled water from showers, sinks and washing machines in Fifteen Fifty, a 40-story luxury apartment building.
The makers are proud of their recycling project where they were able to convert wastewater into an environmentally friendly beer that actually tastes good.
“Buildings globally use 14% of all potable water,” Aaron Tartakovsky, CEO and co-founder of Epic Cleantec, said. “Almost no buildings reuse that water — that’s what we’re trying to change.”
For those looking to get a sip of the beer, you might need to wait since it’s not ready for sale. There are regulations in place that bans recycled wastewater from being used in commercial beverages.
Even though it’s not available in the market, it has been popular 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 engaging in a conversation with other international breweries.
“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.
Source: https://epiccleantec.com/blog/epic-onewater-brew-recycled-beer