Epic One Water ​Brew Project

We at Devil's Canyon Brewing Co. are always thinking about new ways to make our brewery more sustainably responsible. The use of water within brewing processes is a huge issue for water conservation. To produce 1 unit of beer at a brewery, 10 equal units of water are required throughout the brewing process. This trade off is becoming more and more detrimental with the ongoing threat of drought in California. To begin taking steps toward a more sustainable future for the brewing industry, we partnered with San Francisco based company, Epic Cleantec to brew a Kölsch Style Ale using recycled water which was filtered and purified using their OneWater System. The beer and purification tech were named a TIME best invention of 2023 and listed in Fast Company's 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards.

The Epic Onewater Brew project, though experimental, proved that recycled water is just as good, if not better, than the municipality water we use every day. We set out to answer the question: Can we brew a beer from recycled water? The Epic Onewater Brew is proof that using recycled water in the brewing industry is a very viable water source. One that would be an incredible win for water conservation and sustainability.