Some of New England's leading breweries will compete Oct. 1 to see who can turn the questionable water of Boston's Charles River into the tastiest suds.
Six area breweries have signed on for the first ever "Brew the Charles" challenge, a highlight of HUBweek, a weeklong Boston-area festival celebrating innovation in art, science and technology.
Nadav Efraty, CEO of Desalitech, a Massachusetts water treatment company that's sponsoring the competition, hopes it helps spotlight the importance of water conservation and water-saving technologies.
"We're having fun here, but at the end of the day, we want to educate the public and decisionmakers," he said. "We're all efficient with our energy because we know it has environmental and financial costs. We need to think exactly the same way about water."
The river, which winds through 23 Massachusetts communities before ending in Boston Harbor, has come a long way since it gained notoriety in "Dirty Water," the Standells' 1960s hit and one of Boston's adopted theme songs.
After kayaking on the Charles two weeks ago, I can't recommend anyone drink this beer.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday September 17 2016, @03:28PM
If Boston were so awesome, California wouldn't have so many massholes migrating here. And yet, they still do.
Fuck off, you worthless Jew-bastards.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Saturday September 17 2016, @04:30PM
C'mon, Eth, many of those massholes are worthless Irish [youtube.com] bastards.
Whatever their internal composition, it is too late for the California west of the Sierra Nevadas. Pull back east of the Sierra Nevadas if you want to get back to real California.
Washington DC delenda est.