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Greenland Brewery using Melted Ice Cap for water
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:04 pm
by Duct Tape
An interesting peice from the BBC Website today, filed under Science & Technology
BBC News wrote:
Greenland ice cap beer launched
People taste Greenland beer in Copenhagen
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5234194.stm
A brewery in Greenland is producing beer using water melted from the ice cap of the vast Arctic island.
The brewers claim that the water is at least 2,000 years old and free of minerals and pollutants.
The first 66,000 litres of the new dark and pale ales are on their way to the Danish market.
The beer from Greenland - a semi-autonomous Danish territory - has 5.5% alcohol and costs 37 kroner (£3.4; five euros) per half-litre bottle.
It is the first ever Inuit microbrewery - located in Narsaq, a hamlet 625km (390 miles) south of the Arctic Circle.
The beer is shipped to Stralsund, on Germany's north coast, to be bottled.
With a capacity of 400,000 litres a year, the brewery has ambitions beyond the Danish market.
"We've got enquiries from the US and from Germany and we will probably be launching it on the German market in, let's say, six months," Steen Outzen, the brewery owner, told the BBC's World Today programme.
It is claimed that the Greenland beer, officially launched in Copenhagen on Monday, has a softer, cleaner taste than other beers, because of the ice cap water.
The gigantic island of Greenland measures 2.2 million square km (844,000 square miles) - 85% of it covered with ice that is up to 4,000 metres (11,000 feet) thick.
Here is the link to the brewery homepage
http://www.brewhouse.gl/ , mind you, its in danish (i think).
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:10 pm
by John Aitken
The only Swedish I know is that Ikea is Swedish for common sense.
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:33 pm
by El Pinguino
Cool stuff. Our company does work in Greenland....ha ha.
Two beers actually they say a "pale ale" and a "brown ale" on the website.
The first-ever Inuit brewery though??? Cmon.........I'm sure that can be challenged by some cool northern Canadian Inuit?? Hello? Anyone from Nunavut?
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:22 am
by frosken
...and closer to home...
http://www.icebergbeer.com/iceberg.php
Unfortunately, they didn't have when I went last year...bummer...
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:35 am
by Bobbyok
Quidi Vidi's (or is it just QV now?) whole website is screaming "buy me for much more than I'm worth" these days. It's as though the owners have decided to position their brands as the next big thing, they just want somebody else to buy it and do all the work.
Plus, Iceberg beer has been done - and looks as though it didn't succeed:
Borealis Iceberg Beer
On the question of first ever Inuit Brewery, I don't think there are any breweries in Nunavut or NWT. None are listed on Ratebeer or Beer Advocate, though I think I remember reading about one that had started but closed shortly after.
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:40 am
by Belgian
John Aitken wrote:The only Swedish I know is that Ikea is Swedish for common sense.
'IKEA: Swedish for "out of stock." '
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:54 am
by frosken
Bobbyok wrote:
Quidi Vidi's (or is it just QV now?) whole website is screaming "buy me for much more than I'm worth" these days. It's as though the owners have decided to position their brands as the next big thing, they just want somebody else to buy it and do all the work.
Actually I really like their 1892...as for the rest...well...
Bobbyok wrote:
Plus, Iceberg beer has been done - and looks as though it didn't succeed:
Borealis Iceberg Beer
AAMOF, QuidiVidi has had an Iceberg beer before, but their 'special bottles' caused a huge issue in Nfld., as ALL Newfoundland brewers use the same type of bottle (like the post-stubby style of the 80s). They stopped brewing it due to high bottling costs.