Greenlanders launch beer brewed with ice cap water

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2006

COPENHAGEN (AFP) — A Greenland brewery has said it has started making beer with pure water from the ice cap destined to give it a uniquely cool taste and worldwide appeal.

"This is a an old dream finally coming true," Greenland Brewhouse co-owner Steen Outzen told AFP Wednesday. "Our aim is to make a unique, very high-quality beer, for connaisseurs."

The ice which has covered Greenland for millenia gives the new beer a "very special taste", reminiscent of "chocolate, grilled nuts and roasted coffee beans", he said.

It has an alcohol content of 5.5 percent by volume, comes in two varieties "Brown Ale Greenland" and "Pale Ale Greenland", and has an "American taste", the brewers said, adding they hoped for worldwide success.

Brewed in Narsaq, southern...