Drinks
Beer Made With Wastewater? We Take the Taste Test
Americans hoist 56 billion pints a year, each requiring up to five pints of water to produce. Where drought rages, here’s one solution.
Save the Planet by Drinking Beer, Wastewater Beer
There are more breweries in California than anywhere else in the nation. That's great for beer but not so great for another cherished liquid in the Golden State: water. It takes as many as five pints of water to make a pint of beer, and in a state that has been battling a crippling drought for years, that ratio is a big problem.
Lenny Mendonca, owner of Half Moon Bay Brewing Co., thinks he has a solution. Instead of drawing more freshwater from California's dwindling supply, he's been experimenting with recycled wastewater from NASA, which treats water nearby to simulate systems used on the International Space Station.