Making Beer from Rain
For the last couple of years, I’ve been looking at Rainwater catchment systems as I think technology is getting close to making capturing rainwater (and runoff) for residential use practical. I get irritated watching all of that water run down my steep driveway, especially my own sprinkler water, only to purchase more from my municipality the next day. Anyway, I like rainwater catchment and am hoping it pans out.
But, I never thought of rainwater beer. That’s an even better idea. Think of all the cool names you could use. I wonder if they’ll bring back that Rainer motorcycle commercial. Different meaning to Rainier, of course, but still a great commercial.
When it rains, it’s beer
http://www.watertechonline.com/news.asp?N_ID=72537
Friday, September 04, 2009
CUMMING, GA — A company that makes rainwater harvesting equipment has teamed up with anAtlanta micro-brewery to produce what they say is the first micro-brewed beer in the United States to be made entirely with rainwater.
The partnership involves Cumming-based RainHarvest Systems and the 5 Seasons Restaurant and Brewery, which operates three locations in the Atlanta area. The rainwater-brewed beer will be used by RainHarvest Systems for its promotions and at public events to increase awareness of rainwater catchment systems, according to an August 31 RainHarvest press release.
Meanwhile, the brewery, which makes about eight different premium beers, plans to brew all its future beers with rainwater, and its production will be based solely on rainwater, according to the release.
Randy Kauk, president of RainHarvest Systems, said in the release that the partnership with the brewery “demonstrates the broad array of applications where rainwater can be used instead of chemically treated drinking water; plus, it is a great way to create public awareness of rainwater harvesting.”
The new rainwater beer will be formally introduced September 14 in Decatur, GA, on the first day of the American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association’s three-day national conference in Decatur. What the companies call an “advance trial” of the beer will occur at the brewery’s Westside location in Atlanta (1000 Marietta St.) earlier that day.
