Just-Add-Water Beer From Pat's Backcountry Beverages Might Revolutionize Your Hiking Trip

Hallelujah! Just-Add-Water Beer Is Here
glass of beer close up with...
glass of beer close up with...

Beer is a pain to bring along on hiking trips. It's heavy to carry, especially when you're stocking up for a real rager by the campfire. Pat's Backcountry Beverages has a solution: a just-add-water beer concentrate and an easy-to-carry carbonation system.

How is such a thing possible? According to the company's website, the beer concentrate isn't made by dehydrating a conventional beer. "Instead, our process (patent pending) allows us to start with almost no water, and carefully control the environment of the fermentation," says the site. The result is supposedly a beer that tastes like a "premium micro brew." Each beer packet makes a single 16 oz. pint.

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Pat's Backcountry Beverages owner, Pat Tatera, told Gizmag.com that the beer is just "barley, water, hops and yeast." "If you come into our facility, you'll see fermentors, you'll see a mash tun, you'll see a brew kettle, but you'll also see some equipment that looks like some sci-fi movie, and that's where our very specialized technology allows us to do what we do," he said.

The carbonation system looks more like a water bottle, and is activated by simply moving a lever on the contraption up and down. Check it out in the video below.

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