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.
Um, won’t this contribute to rising sea levels?
Beer is excluded from Kyoto silly.
So we are assuming that 2k years ago when this water froze is also the same moment that the H and the O bonded to become water?
The water in this beer is much older than 2k years, they just don’t want to mention that before 2k years ago some fish was pooping in it.
Besides, I can say that my drinking water is much older because it comes from Lake Michigan and that body of water was formed over 14k years ago. booya!
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.
Finally, a way to use those pesky melting glaciers!
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,
#1 – no, because its drinkers will eventually pee it out again and it’ll eventually find its way back to the sea.
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.
Yet the weight from the iceberg is getting lower, therefore it’s displacement is receding……therefore wouldn’t it be a wash?
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.
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.
MORE BEER.
Cut alcohol taxes.
Calin -
That’s only for icecaps that are over the ocean. There is land under the Greenland icecap.
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.
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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