Supposedly it has a nutty aftertaste with a hint of corn.
Via Salon:
Coming soon to Portland (where else?): craft beer made from sewage water.
It’s purified sewage water, to be more specific, that’s been treated by Hillsboro Clean Water Services in Oregon — and which they insist is cleaner than ordinary drinking water. It’s subjected to ultra-filtration, reverse osmosis and enhanced oxidation; as a result, insists Mark Jockers, the company’s government and public affairs manager, ”the water that comes from the high purity water system is the cleanest water on the planet.”
That high a level of purity doesn’t matter so much for human safety, the Oregonian explains, but it is the kind of thing that can influence beer: one home brewer, who participated in a competition held last year by Clean Water Services, described it as a “blank slate” a.k.a “a brewer’s dream.
If water drawn downstream from a sewage treatment plant — treated water made up about 30 percent of the mix — was so good, the company is better that water drawn directly from the plant will be even better. And so it’s organizing a team of home brewers — the “Oregon Brew Crew” — to try it out.