Beer has again become the poster child for a successful development in treating wastewater to be reused in consumable products. Devils Canyon Brewery in San Carlos, CA has partnered with Epic Cleantec to make beer from treated wastewater, a step forward in developing technology to turn certain types of wastewater into potable water for consumption.
San Francisco-based Epic Cleantec received a grant from the Bill and Melissa Gates Charitable Foundation back in 2012 to promote development in water reuse and conservation. Eleven years later the company partnered with Devils Canyon to make Epic OneWater Brew. Due to state and federal laws regulating water in consumable products, the beer cannot be sold to the public. But both companies are using to beer to tout the success of water reuse and the implications it may have for the brewing industry as well as for water conservation as a whole.
It’s not the first beer has been made with wastewater. Fox City Brewing Company in Forsyth, GA brewed a beer earlier this year from recycled water. But with multiple systems now in place and the interest of Bill Gates, there may be significant progress that could ultimately tame the concern brewers have over a dwindling water supply in the future.
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