Interesting…
http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/231391-95011-never-fear-river-beer-is-crystal-clear
Charlie Bamforth brewed a batch of beer with water from the Davis arboretum stream. Duck crap and weeds and drunk college kid puke and who knows what else. Just to show that the brewing and fermentation process itself purifies the water into drinkability.
Still, clever use of non-traditional marketing strategies.
Transforming water into something safe to drink was the main reason for making beer for centuries.
+1
I’m confused, it seems as if the water they were trying to portray as “safe” is not even close to what was actually being brewed with?
“Clean Water Services (CWS), a semi-governmental utility that handles wastewater, stormwater and other water-management services for all Washington County cities, proposed a beer competition in order to demonstrate the purity of its processed water.”
“We wanted to take it directly out of the treatment plant because we produce this effluent that very nearly meets Safe Drinking Water Act standards,” said Mark Jockers, CWS’ manager of government and public affairs. But regulations from Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality complicated that plan, he said.
So instead, CWS drew the “river beer” water from an area near Tualatin Community Park, immediately downstream from CWS’s Durham treatment plant. At that point, the cleaned effluent accounts for 30 percent of the river’s water, Jockers said.
To meet DEQ’s strict regulations, CWS then ran the water through a special, experimental high-purity system at its Fernhill Road site in Forest Grove.
The result exceeded drinking-water standards, Jockers said.
Yea, it ended up being symbolic. They should use the water to do ice bucket challenges. Or just drink it.