Ballast Point Brewing Co. Partners with Ambient Water to Produce Beers from Condensation
June 16, 2017 at 04:15 pm
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Ambient Water announced that Ballast Point Brewing Co. has completed its first two batches of beer made with water produced from Ambient's atmospheric water generation systems. The company's atmospheric water generator, the AW400, has been installed adjacent to UCSD's Jacobs Medical Center, a 245-bed medical and surgical specialty hospital opened in November of 2016. It is now fully functional onsite producing hundreds of gallons of potable water per day. Ballast Point brewed two pilsners using pure water from Ambient's water generator at UCSD, which extracts moisture from the coastal fog. Named CleanEscape #1 (5.3% ABV) and CleanEscape #2 (5.5% ABV) after pirates escaping into fog banks, the beers explore how higher sulfate in water can enhance hop taste and bitterness, along with testing higher chloride levels to enhance mouthfeel and malt. CleanEscape #1 has more chloride, while CleanEscape #2 has more sulfate. CleanEscape is a San Diego take on a classic Pilsner -- clean and refreshing, with more hops. The resulting beer isn't as hoppy as an IPA, but features hints of floral and slightly fruity hop notes. The benefit of the water produced from Ambient Water to the breweries is its purity. This allows the breweries to add their own ingredients to it to mimic water tastes from around the world, and brew beers that have never been tasted before. Water from an Ambient Water atmospheric water generator has only 7 PPM (particles per million), as compared to water from the City of San Diego that has 700 PPM.
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