Welcome to Svalbard, one of the world’s northernmost inhabited places, where brewing beer was illegal for nearly a century. That all changed in 2015 when local pioneer Robert Johansson led the charge to change the law, and Svalbard Brewery was born.
Today, this trailblazing Arctic brewery makes high-quality beer in one of the planet’s most remote and extreme environments, using 2,000-year-old glacier water - one of the purest sources on Earth!
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Welcome to Svalbard
00:38 History
01:17 How they first brewed beer
01:47 It's made with glacier water
02:26 Svalbard's alcohol laws
02:56 What do the locals think?
03:28 What's the drinking culture like?
Executive Producer - Noah Throop
Producer - Stuart Smillie
Camera - Steven Kelly & Stuart Smillie
Editor - James Rayner
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