So...Now There's Fog-to-Bottle Vodka

Bay Area-based Hangar 1 distillery has produced a limited-edition batch of vodka made from actual San Francisco fog. “We really wanted to come up with some sort of sustainable water, like can we collect rain water?” Shoemaker says, while hosting a component tasting as the distillery on Alameda, an island between Oakland and the San Francisco peninsula. They considered desalinating sea water. Then her team came across a non-profit called FogQuest which has worked to collect water from fog to help sustain remote communities in more sober fashions, like hydrating monks in the mountains of Nepal. And, really, what is more local than a cloudy mass of water droplets that Bay Area natives have anthropomorphized as a guy named Karl?

From “There Is Now Vodka Literally Made from San Francisco Fog,” by Katy Steinmetz for Time; Photo courtesy of Hangar 1

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