Beer made from sewage water might soon be a reality

[Suzanimal]

They do this already, it's called Buttweiser.

On Wednesday, the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission voted to let one brewery use water recycled from sewage to brew its beer, Oregon Public Broadcasting reports. The brewery, Oregon Brew Crew, would be supplied by Clean Water Services, a utility with a highly sophisticated treatment process that turns sewage into drinking-quality water.

The batches of beer made from recycled water would be served at events, not sold at a brewery, the radio station reports.

There’s still one hurdle to anyone actually sipping a pint of beer that was once sewage: The state recycled water reuse regulations must be amended to include human consumption.

But the Oregon Health Authority has already approved Clean Water Services’ request to provide water for beer, citing “the high quality of the treated water, additional microbial reduction in the brewing process, and a low health risk overall,” in an official report.

Recycled sewage water is already used in some cases to spread on crops for irrigation in Oregon, as well as for recharging groundwater. But this is the first time the state has considered allowing the stuff to be repurposed for human consumption.

http://www.newsweek.com/beer-made-se...reality-322817

[Origanalist]

Stahp already...don't make me hate muh beer......

[Suzanimal]

Stahp already...don't make me hate muh beer......

muh pisswater, ya mean.

[Origanalist]

muh pisswater, ya mean.

Everybody around me drinks frickin' light beer. What's up with that?

I can't stand drinking "beer aid", won't touch the stuff.

[Origanalist]

I like my beer to have a bite to it.

[GunnyFreedom]

[Henry Rogue]

Thank God for microbreweries.

[Suzanimal]

[Ronin Truth]

Garbage in, garbage out. Just collect the money from the middle man.

[phill4paul]

Gives whole new meaning to mirobrewey.

[Anti Federalist]

When you think about it, all water is just recycled water.

[Origanalist]

When you think about it, all water is just recycled water.

I don't want to think about it though.....

[Ronin Truth]

When you think about it, all water is just recycled water.

Air too.

With every breath you breathe that's another 100 million atoms also breathed by Jesus. (and the dinosaurs)

[Origanalist]

[Suzanimal]

I'm not feeling so bad about my arsenic infused hooch now.
At least it's not piss.

[Origanalist]

I'm not feeling so bad about my arsenic infused hooch now.
At least it's not piss.

It was somebodies piss at some point.......

[Origanalist]

[jmdrake]

muh pisswater, ya mean.

I tasted beer once in HS and it tasted like crap. Never gave it a second chance. But here's a funny story. At a party one of my friends took a bottle, poured out the contents, peed in it, put the cap back on somehow and put it in the fridge.......yeah someone drank it. He kept saying "This beer takes like piss." Finally everyone else couldn't stop laughing and told him. Glad that wasn't me.

[Brian4Liberty]

No big deal. We already drink "recycled" water in California.

Ever wonder what they drink on the space station?

[Suzanimal]

I tasted beer once in HS and it tasted like crap. Never gave it a second chance. But here's a funny story. At a party one of my friends took a bottle, poured out the contents, peed in it, put the cap back on somehow and put it in the fridge.......yeah someone drank it. He kept saying "This beer takes like piss." Finally everyone else couldn't stop laughing and told him. Glad that wasn't me.

I bet he was pissed off when he found out. Don't tell me that young man grew up to be Bear Grylls.

[Suzanimal]

No big deal. We already drink "recycled" water in California.

Ya nasty.

Ever wonder what they drink on the space station?

Franzia Chillable Red?

[europa arise]

Would that pass the Reinheitsgebot/German Beer Purity Law?

[osan]

They do this already, it's called Buttweiser.

Any water, regardless of how foul, after passing through a reverse-osmosis filter, is rendered perfectly potable.

[Acala]

Introducing reclaimed sewage water into the potable supply is absolutely in the long-term plans of all arid region water suppliers in the USA. Unofficially called "toilet-to-tap". There are many known problems, aside from the psychological aversion. One is the high level of unhealthy nitrates. Another is the presence of powerful pharmaceuticals. The drugs come from people flushing surplus prescriptions down the toilet as a means of disposal and also from drug residue that pases through the body in an active form. While the technology exists to filter it effectively, the cost of treating millions of gallons of water is significant.

I suspect there are also unknown problems. Without a doubt, the single greatest triumph in the history of public health was getting the sewage out of the drinking water supply. I think everyone is underestimating the problems that will arise from putting it back in.