A Calgary brewery is hoping to convince beer lovers that an ale made from municipal wastewater is tasty and safe. Village Brewery has teamed up with University of Calgary researchers and U.S. water technology company Xylem to create a limited-edition batch. The 1,600-can batch of Village Blonde ale is now on sale.
The water comes from the Pine Creek wastewater treatment plant by the Bow River in southeast Calgary. Partially treated water was run through an advanced purification system that involved
ultrafiltration, ozone, ultraviolet light and reverse osmosis.
Before being sent to the brewery, the cleaned water was tested to meet the rigorous standards outlined by Alberta Health and Safety. “With the right measures in place, alternative water sources, such as wastewater, grey water, rooftop collected rainwater, and stormwater, can be made safe for many potable and non-potable end-uses,” said a public health Inspector.
It is expected that a bevy of new breweries will now tap into this newly approved water source and many more tasty microbrews will soon hit the shelves. The most critical issue however will be selecting a catchy name for each new beverage as another local brewery found out this month.
Hell's Basement Brewery in Alberta unwittingly named one of its beers after the Maori word “Huruhuru” that is commonly used to mean pubic hair. The brewery which released its Huruhuru pale ale two years ago thought the word meant “feather!”
It is not yet clear whether blondes from local villages will be objecting to adorning the label of the ingenious new wastewater-based beer!
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