There's a good story over at the US public broadcaster NPR about Newfoundland's Quidi Vidi Brewing Co. and their iceberg beer, a light lager they suggest is especially lightened by the use of melted iceberg. I particularly liked this bit:
"You don't taste anything. It's not like normal ice cubes where even with filtered water — you don't notice you're drinking chemicals," says Tak Ishiwata, a chef who runs a sleek restaurant that serves Newfoundland-Japanese fusion cuisine. Ishiwata says the drinks are just a new twist on a very old Newfoundland tradition of keeping a chunk of ice in the freezer. Ishiwata's mother had a block, which she would chisel with a screwdriver to ice drinks. The trapped air in the ice gives off a special fizz in the liquid. A couple of years ago, Ishiwata had the chance to go out on an ice-harvesting boat. It's dangerous to get too close to the giant towers of ice, he says, so to break off manageable pieces, he took a shot at the iceberg with a .22-caliber rifle.
While you will have to determine the "qweye-da-veye-da" as opposed to "kiddy-viddy" question yourself, I would be very interested to know if any of you can think of other examples of fine drinks requiring gun play. Sounds like a call for a special division of CAMWA, a department of small arms or some such thing. I like the ice of an ice-harvesting boat dedicated to blasting bergs to gather up chunks - or rather bergy bits - as a part of a brewery's operations. Maybe CAMWA needs a navy branch within the special ops division. I need to get staff working on that idea.






Comments
Bailey - February 29, 2012 8:41 AM
There's no denying that's a great marketing angle. As epic-sounding as Irn Bru's "made in Scotland from girders".
The Beer Nut - February 29, 2012 9:19 AM
There's a company in Denmark makes beer from a glacier in Greenland. I don't know if any firearms were involved, but <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y5QkyHYuITM/SNYttExgvuI/AAAAAAAAA9E/CfiCiJj9ONQ/s1600/DSCF0048.JPG>their stand at the 2008 European Beer Festival</a> did feature a polar bear which appeared to have lost a competition with some high-velocity lead.
The Beer Nut - February 29, 2012 9:20 AM
Now with fixed link:
There's a company in Denmark makes beer from a glacier in Greenland. I don't know if any firearms were involved, but their stand at the 2008 European Beer Festival did feature a polar bear which appeared to have lost a competition with some high-velocity lead.
Craig - February 29, 2012 11:42 AM
John Wayne supposedly used his yacht the "Wild Goose" to collect iceburg ice for his preferred drink, tequilla.
Alan - February 29, 2012 12:28 PM
There has to be a Hemingway story around this. Too bad he never wrote "Islands off the Labrador".
Ethan - February 29, 2012 2:22 PM
"CBW Pale Ale: Better than shooting yourself in the head!"
(don't worry, we're not really naming it 'pale ale;' after all, that style doesn't really exist. In fact, none of them do.)
Alan - February 29, 2012 3:27 PM
No, but if you had a beer called yellow snow out of Buffalo, well, I might be careful as to its authenticity.
Any plan to brew with Lake Erie ice?
Ethan - March 1, 2012 12:01 PM
Alan- what Lake Erie ice? I can't find a single cube this year...
Pok - March 2, 2012 2:30 PM
Sorry to be a downer but I prefer my water to not contain lead, depleted uranium or whatever. Iceberg water - that's right up there with powdered rhinocerous horn on the list of inane ideas people will buy into.