Want great beer? You need clean water

from Greenbiz.com

Some archeologists think humans learned how to make beer before bread — beer is that fundamental to human civilization. We know they were making beer at least 7,000 years ago, in what is now Iran. Back then, beer (or ale) was sometimes a safer alternative to water, especially if you didn’t know where your water was coming from — heating during the brewing process would kill off most pathogens. Today, modern brewers rely on clean water to make their product. Because no matter how carefully craft brewers tweak their malt, hops and strains of yeast, at the end of the day, beer is about 90 percent water. That’s why craft brewers across the country are rallying behind the Clean Water Act, our nation’s fundamental safeguard for water.