By its very nature, beer is extreme. That microbes all around us can, under the right conditions, create a wonderful, flavorful, and inspiring beverage is the true power of nature, and there’s respect that should be paid.
However, some brewers are extreme themselves. While many are happy to walk the path set out for them by the beer itself and brewers who have come before them, there are others who take the notion of what beer can be and how nature can continue to assist and create recipes or finished results and put that beer through its paces, stretch it to the limit, and create beers that are worthy of the word “extreme.”
Ocean Beer
Two years ago, while diving on a shipwreck off the coast of South Africa in the Atlantic Ocean, Nick Bush, the director at Drifter Brewing Company (Cape Town, South Africa) was struck with the realization that the conditions around the ship would be perfect for fermenting beer.