Where to get PFAS with your beer

[day_trippr]

https://www.newsweek.com/map-beers-contaminated-pfas-chemicals-2069317

 

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Ugh.

Off the top, it's probably breweries closest to any DuPont or possibly 3M plants. Map doesn't seem to jive but would have been my guess.

We've all got some in us, question is only how much.

 

[Broken Crow]

I have a bad feeling that the small crowd that throws everything from Fruit-Loops to roast-beef in their esoteric concoctions may read this thread title as a desirable thing and start searching for "PFAS-extract" to add to their next "Taco Bell 7-Layer Burrito" 'beer'.

 

[MaxStout]

Surprised that OP's linked article doesn't show a bunch of them in MN, as 3M had been dumping PFOS/PFAS around the state (and elsewhere) since the 1950s. However, many municipalities around here draw from deep wells, so perhaps the perfluorinated chemicals haven't reached that deep...yet.

 

[mac_1103]

They only tested in nine states, and Minnesota wasn't one of them. This certainly doesn't imply that beer made in the other 41 is PFAS-free.

"Researchers analyzed beers from nine states, including North Carolina, Michigan, Colorado, California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri and Colorado. International beers examined during the study were brewed in the Netherlands and Mexico."

 

[hilljack13]

Surprised that OP's linked article doesn't show a bunch of them in MN, as 3M had been dumping PFOS/PFAS around the state (and elsewhere) since the 1950s. However, many municipalities around here draw from deep wells, so perhaps the perfluorinated chemicals haven't reached that deep...yet.

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Looks like a name change is in order. Land of 1000 PFAS sites. Yikes! I'd like to see all states results.

 

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If you want to know more about PFA's, oddly timed is a video from what I consider to be a pretty good science-y channel on it: