U.S. Nat'l Public Radio discovers NF Iceberg Beer

[The Bread Guy]

The year the Quidi Vidi Brewing Co. started brewing beer with iceberg water, a giant iceberg floated up against the cliffs around St. John's, Newfoundland.

"It was a big berg and it jammed right across the harbor here," says Charlie Rees, the brewery's tour guide.

Rees says Newfoundlanders have a curious relationship with icebergs. On the one hand, they're a fact of life. On the other, when that iceberg was in the harbor's mouth, hundreds of people came down to gawk. He took pictures.

"Eventually the wind and waves broke it up into small pieces and it just disappeared," he recalls.

On land, in a former fish-processing plant, Rees' brother was already brewing up the first batches of iceberg beer, now a brewery staple. Charlie Rees showed off the assembly line that fills thousands of bottles with the lager by the hour ....

NPR, 29 Feb 12

 

[PMedMoe]

Icebergs have been floating around NF for years and they just started doing this?  :



I like the blue bottles.  :nod:

 

[medicineman]

Icebergs have been floating around NF for years and they just started doing this?  :



I like the blue bottles.  :nod:

No - we're only just finding out about it  ;D.

MM

 

[jollyjacktar]

They don't carry it here in NS.  I've asked the NSLC if they'd consider it.  Like the bottles too.

 

[RememberanceDay]

My aunt works there... She gets a lot of free beer, and then passes it to us.

 

[Journeyman]

These beer bottles, like all liquor bottles, must be viewed in a more Zen sort of way....

....it's the space within that's important.

   

 

[dapaterson]

These beer bottles, like all liquor bottles, must be viewed in a more Zen sort of way....

....it's the space within that's important.

   

Then I guess we can provide you with empties then - since to me, it's the contents within that's important.

 

[The Bread Guy]

These beer bottles, like all liquor bottles, must be viewed in a more Zen sort of way....

....it's the space within that's important.

   

The Dude Abides....

 

[cupper]

I was listening to that story on the way to work this morning. Thought it was awesome to hear a story like that.

What's really cool is the Japanese/Newfoundland fusion restaurant owner they interviewed that uses berg bits for ice in cocktails. They go out hunting bergs with a .22, blast pieces off and carry them back. Hearing a person with a Japanese name with a slight newf accent made my day.