Glacier beer hits the market

People looking for a silver lining to global warming can now find solace in alcohol – glacier beer, to be precise. The world’s first Inuit microbrewery has started producing frosty ales using water melted from Greenland’s mammoth ice cap. The maker of Icecap Beer, located 390 miles south of the Arctic Circle, claims that using 2,000 year-old ice makes for ...

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People looking for a silver lining to global warming can now find solace in alcohol - glacier beer, to be precise. The world's first Inuit microbrewery has started producing frosty ales using water melted from Greenland's mammoth ice cap. The maker of Icecap Beer, located 390 miles south of the Arctic Circle, claims that using 2,000 year-old ice makes for a softer, cleaner-tasting beer. 

People looking for a silver lining to global warming can now find solace in alcohol – glacier beer, to be precise. The world’s first Inuit microbrewery has started producing frosty ales using water melted from Greenland’s mammoth ice cap. The maker of Icecap Beer, located 390 miles south of the Arctic Circle, claims that using 2,000 year-old ice makes for a softer, cleaner-tasting beer. 

For now, would-be imbibers will have to travel to Denmark to find the stuff, since it’s not yet available in other markets. But that could soon change as the company expands operations and as the chief ingredient – ice water – becomes more plentiful. And since some reports suggest that the great thaw of Greenland may be happening faster than anticipated, that can only mean one thing – well, aside from higher sea levels: more beer.

Ben Fryer is a researcher at Foreign Policy.

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