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Brewers tasked with turning sewage into suds

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Re: Brewers tasked with turning sewage into suds

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This is clean water that used to be waste water but has been treated? What's the issue.

In medieval times people used to brew with water that actually contained waste in order to sanitise it, the yeast killing the bacterea. Then everyone would drink it, including the children.