The Sky.P.A is a modern IPA, that has been made with water harvested from Scottish clouds. The composition of this water was influenced by its origins, in this case the Atlantic, and is high in minerals that add real flavour through the brewing process, alongside the malts and hops selected.

The water to create Sky.P.A. was harvested using a heavy lift power kite tethered with 200kg tensile Kevlar line. The kite carried a custom built harvester made up of a carbon fibre structure supporting a 32000 RPM radio controlled turbine with custom propeller and bespoke spun aluminium funnel.

The harvester used the turbine to suck the cloud moisture onto a hydrophilic fabric, from where it is drawn into the condenser, cooled and water captured in the container. The clouds were hand harvested by a four-person team from the mountains of Loch Lomond.

Cloud Harvester was part of a larger campaign to promote Innis and Gunn’s Crowdfunding campaign ‘Adventure Capital’.