To obtain a different cool taste and global appeal, a Greenland brewery has declared it will make beer with pure water from an ice cap.

"This is an old dream finally coming true," Greenland Brewhouse co-owner Steen Outzen told AFP Wednesday. "Our aim is to make a unique, very high-quality beer."

The ice enveloping Greenland for a millennia imparts the new beer with a "very special taste." Sources reveal that it is reminiscent of "chocolate, grilled nuts and roasted coffee beans."

It lists an alcohol content of 5.5 percent by volume and is in two variants "Brown Ale Greenland" and "Pale Ale Greenland - brewers say it has an "American taste."

Although brewed in Narsaq, southern Greenland, it will be bottled in northern Germany at the Flensburger Brauerei.

Outzen says the idea is not groundbreaking, tiny breweries had attempted to make beer with ice cap water. "But the quality was not great," he said.

The primary 66,000 liters of production will be sold in Denmark for six dollar per half-liter bottle.