The beer of discerning polar bears

Greenland ice cap beer launched

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.



  1. Frank IBC says:

    Um, won’t this contribute to rising sea levels?

  2. Firestarter says:

    Beer is excluded from Kyoto silly.

  3. slumbuzzle says:

    Great marketing scheme, though I doubt that it’ll improve the quality of the final product. I brew my own with store bought materials (no ice cap needed) and it tastes better than anything I’ve had from commercial breweries, domestic or import.

  4. James Hill says:

    Finally, a way to use those pesky melting glaciers!

  5. Angel H. Wong says:

    If the beer is a piece of sh*t regardless of how exotic the location and the quality of ingredients, no one will buy it,

  6. Peter Rodwell says:

    #1 – no, because its drinkers will eventually pee it out again and it’ll eventually find its way back to the sea.

  7. Frank IBC says:

    Yes, the water that is in the pee that’s going into the ocean, used to be in the icecap, so it’s contributing to the rise in sea levels.

  8. Calin says:

    Yet the weight from the iceberg is getting lower, therefore it’s displacement is receding……therefore wouldn’t it be a wash?

  9. BHK says:

    I made some beer once from Chalice Well water (isle of Avalon and all that). Came out pretty good though I think that steam water makes for the best (completely pure). Chalice Well water is stuff that hasn’t seen the light of day for 80,000 years, but it’s also loaded with minerals.

  10. joshua says:

    This explains the disappearing ice sheet over Greenland. So much for global warming. If you’ve ever been in a pub with a bunch of Danish sailors you know where all that glacial melt is going.

  11. ECA says:

    MORE BEER.
    Cut alcohol taxes.

  12. Frank IBC says:

    Calin –

    That’s only for icecaps that are over the ocean. There is land under the Greenland icecap.

  13. Calin says:

    Ahh, sorry.

    This is all just mental masturbation haha; but how much urine do you think it would take to raise the ocean level by 1cm? That question might give me something to do while I fight off insomnia tonight.

  14. Calin says:

    Or not…..I get somewhere in the area of 5.09282815 × 10^15 liters.

    Average human output……1 liter a day. At that rate it would take the world population 767293.5 days (2100.7 years) of drinking nothing but this beer to raise the ocean level 1cm. That’s assuming 510million square km of area. Of course, if you drink nothing but beer…..it will probably take like 1/4 of that time. I don’t know about you……but I urinate constantly when beer is in play.

    Of course, I’m tired and these calculations could be way off. I never claimed to be a mathematician.


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