Sky.P.A: This IPA beer is made from cloud water
Containing minerals from the Atlantic ocean
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Your support makes all the difference.Why make beer from boring, earthbound water, when you can romantically pluck it from a cloud?
This is what Innis & Gunn decided to do for their new India pale ale, Sky.P.A.
The brewery created a bespoke airborne device fitted with a turbine and condenser and sucked moisture directly from a cloud before cooling it into water.
It took a team of four to fly the device over Devil’s Beef Tub in Moffat, Scotland, and they collected enough cloud water to brew 500 pints.
We’ll let you know exactly what cloud beer, which sounds like something you'd find in the tavern of a fantasy RPG, tastes like shortly, but the brewery has described it as “fresh”.
Cloud water, essentially rain, might seem an odd choice for an ingredient, but Innis & Gunn says the IPA was “influenced by its origins, in this case the Atlantic, and so was high in minerals that add real flavour through the brewing process, alongside the malts and hops selected.”
The beer is available to the public through the company’s Twitter page, having been made to the launch of its first equity crowdfunding campaign.
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