"Global Warming Beer" Taps Melted Arctic Ice

[Dover]

August 3, 2006—From rising sea levels to stifling heat waves, the effects of global warming are shaping up to be a worldwide buzz kill.

But brewers in Greenland seem to be going with the flow, having found a new use for one of their homeland's fastest growing—but least celebrated—natural resources: melted Arctic ice.

On July 31 a team of canny entrepreneurs unveiled Greenland Beer, an ale brewed with water melted from Greenland's ice cap, at a public tasting in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Staffed by indigenous Greenlanders and located some 390 miles (625 kilometers) south of the Arctic Circle, Greenland Brewhouse is the world's first Inuit microbrewery.

And if reaction from tipplers at the tasting was any indication, the brewers may be on to something. Electrician Flemming Larsen described the ale to the Associated Press as "smooth, soft, but not bitter … different from most other beer." ...cont'd

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060803-warming-beer.html

[proud patriot]

1. well at least it gives some attention to the problem

:think:

[Xeric]

2. Good for the Inuit

hope they make some bucks off of it. However.......
Being a homebrewer I can say this is a bit of a gimmick. All breweries treat their water in some way. The brewing process requires a certain level of ions for the beer to ferment well. The various ions are manipulated depending on the local source for good results. That and the fact that the water is boiled means that it is not the most important component in the brewing process. Now there are certain traditional styles that need different types of water but in general all that is manipulated in today's modern brewery. It's kind of like the bottled water thing. It's all just water.
But hey, I'll buy it.

[OneBlueSky]

3. if we drink enough we can stop rising sea levels? . . . n/t

.

[Dover]

4. Just think how old that water could be...........

might have been frozen for centuries.....or more!

Ancient microbes and germs...oh my!