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This Week in Green – Nov. 12, 2010

World’s most expensive beer

Would you pay $800 for one bottle of beer? What if it was made from melted Antarctic Ice and was sold to help benefit protecting international marine life?

Still sound a bit steep? Well, at $800, Antarctic Nail Aleworld’s most expensive beer. Just that one bottle, mind you.

Australia’s Nail Brewing Company made just 30 bottles of the beer, which used ice from the Antarctic. That ice came from Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which hauled it back from its last anti-whaling campaign there. The one $800 bottle was sold at an auction benefitting the Society, which has promoted protecting oceans and marine life.

“Over 90 percent of beer is water, so the Antarctic Nail Ale could possibly be the world’s oldest and purest beer,” said brewer John Stallwood. “It’s great to sell the most expensive bottle of beer in the world, but it’s all about a good cause. It’s also good that a beer about saving the whales is now the most expensive beer in the world, rather than a high alcohol beer sold in animal carcasses.”

Stallwood was referring to Brewdog, previously the world record holder for most expensive beer. The less said about it the better, but there’s a reason its nickname is “The End of History.”