This company is using sewage water to brew beer for a very important reason

Mmm, nothing like sitting back and cracking open a cold can of crisp amber ale...that was once sewage. A municipal water utility in Portland, Oregon, recently held a contest to see who could brew the tastiest beer from what was once wastewater — i.e. the stuff that runs off our farms and goes down our toilets — and we got to try it. But don't worry — the water used to brew the beer was strictly purified, and meets or exceeds the standards for drinking water (which specifies safe levels of ...