Beer Town Austin

This popped up this morning.

From the JK blog:

We are excited to announce that Jester King will begin harvesting rain water for use in its brewing process. We recently purchased 3,000 gallon rain water collection tanks from Tank Town in Dripping Springs, which is also home to Richard’s Rain Water. We will use the roof of both the brewery and 8,000 square foot beer hall next door to catch an estimated 10,000 barrels of rain water per year for use in brewing. Prior to use, the rain water will go through ultraviolet and reverse osmosis purification.

I asked Jeff to explain how much rain water would/could be incorporated in brewing.

Here’s his answer:

We estimate that we’ll be able to collect about 10,000 barrels annually, which is more water than we’ll initially need.  If the rain is fairly constant (unlikely), we’ll be able to use 100% rain water.  If there’s a drought, the percentage of rain water will decrease.  Time will tell what the percentage looks like throughout the year.  It will probably be a higher percentage at certain times during the year than others.

Exciting stuff.

More from the horses mouth:

We see using rain water for brewing at Jester King as part of a larger movement amongst craft breweries to return to our nation’s pastime of local, sustainable beer and transition away from the aberrant era of centralized, mass-produced, industrial light lager.

Those are some huge tanks. Also, it looks like they took the photo at sun up. Those guys are working around the clock to bring us some good beer. Thanks.