Fancy a cold one? Would it change your mind if the frothy, frosty beer was brewed with treated sewage?
Would you try this beer made from sewage? | Reuters
Town Brewing in Charlotte, NC certainly hopes not, because that's the rationale behind its latest creation: Renew Brew, which is created using water treated at the city's McDowell Wastewater Treatment Plant.
According to local news outlet WCNC, Charlotte Water, Town Brewing and water technology company Xylem have teamed up to create Renew Brew, a pale ale brewed with water that previously ran through sinks, showers, toilets, storm drains and anything less than drinking fountains.
A lot of work goes into treating sewage, which is full of biological and chemical contaminants that make it unsafe for human consumption. Such water is usually not returned directly to the drinking water supply, but is instead returned to the environment where further filtration can be done at drinking water facilities through a process known as indirect drinking water reuse.
