London: Traditional Scotch whisky is made from spring water sources in Scottish Highlands, but now a brewery in Greenland is producing beer using water melted from ice caps of the vast Arctic island.
The makers of the beer say the water is at least 2,000 years old and free of minerals and pollutants. This makes the beer taste cleaner and smoother compared to other beers.
According to the BBC, the beer has a 5.5 per cent alcohol content and costs 37 kroner or five euros per half litre bottle and the first of the 66,000 litres of the new dark and pale ales have already been sent on their way to the Danish market.
Company officials say the beer is the produce of the first ever Inuit microbrewery - located in Narsaq, a hamlet 625 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle.
The bottling is however, not done either in Greenland or Denmark, but Stralsund, on Germany's north coast where the brew is shipped.
The brewery owner, Steen Outzen says that with a capacity of 4,00,000 litres a year, the brewery has ambitions beyond the Danish market.
"We've got enquiries from the US and from Germany and we will probably be launching it on the German market in, let's say, six months," Outzen said.
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