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Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE
(www.theguardian.com)
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That's dumb, just drink your cocktail with normal ice, or use RO water if you really can taste the mineral content.
There are specialty companies in New York City that supply cocktail ice, but the ice is designed with a good flavor profile and is completely clear.
And this is something that actually makes sense.
RO water would be the opposite of what you'd want if you want all the non-water things in your ice
The claim here from the summary is that the water is more pure than the mineral water. You could also just do distilled water and customize the mineral content with additions like brewers and sparkling water makers do. I just don't see how it would be cost effective to ship thousands of pounds of glacier ice vs freezing as needed. You could even make a pressurized freezer and probably achieve the same effect.
This business is built on people with more money than sense.
It's not cost effective nor is it pure. Both mineral water and glacier water are far from pure water. People want them because they're not pure, in a chemical sense.
That's just some hocus pocus bullshit marketing. No one would be able to pass a blind taste test on these because the alcohol would overwhelm their taste buds.
Again, more money than sense.
Yes but without the alcohol I'm sure you'd taste a difference between ground water and glacial water.Glacier melt has a lot of impurities that gives it a distinctive taste.
You're so busy being pedantic that you're missing my entire point, so congrats you win the conversation.
People want them because they're posturing conspicuous consumers.