For 40 years Denmark & Canada have disputed the Hans Island…and now two brewers will create Hans Across The Water in an effort to settle the dispute. The beer will be an Imperial Coffee Porter that is packaged in 1.5 liter bottles, coming in at 10% ABV. This from CPHPost:
Canadian liquor store owner Jim Pettinger is hoping will be the result of the Hans Across the Water beer, created in collaboration with Denmark’s Ugly Duck Brewing Company. Pettinger hopes to play a part in resolving the Hans Island dispute between Canada and Denmark by inviting PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper to his store for a couple of chilled beers.
The brew that Pettinger is confident will help open lines of discussion between Thorning-Schmidt and Harper is an Imperial Vanilla Coffee Porter. It’s a dark beer with hints of vanilla and coffee, and sold in 1.5 litre bottles containing 10 percent alcohol.
“At the end of that bottle, we should all be good friends,” Pettinger said.
The label for the bottle is a parody of Michelangelo’s ‘Creation of Adam’, with Pettinger in Adam’s position, and Martin Jensen, a brewer at Ugly Duck and a veteran of the Danish craft beer industry, as God. Jensen is pouring beer into a cup clutched in Pettinger’s outstretched hand, and both men are set against backdrops of the flags of their countries.
Canadians who live outside Edmonton will have to go out of their way to try the beer, as it is only available at Pettinger’s store. And with only 960 bottles produced, they should act fast.
Danes, on the other hand, have a home-field advantage – Ugly Duck, located in the village of Nørre Åby, Funen, is selling the porter, although in smaller, 33 cl bottles and without the eye-catching label used in Canada.
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