My name is Jake Harrison.
I'm the Senior Quality Brewer here at Ballistic Beer Co.
I've been brewing for about five or six years now.
Almost three years in a commercial setting.
This year, Ballistic Beer is entering the desalinated water
category at the  Royal Queensland Beer Awards
and that's something we excited about.
The beer we're entering is called 'Water My Lawn'.
It's a watermelon gose.
When we came up with the idea,
it was before all this recent rain and
we were on the cusp of perhaps getting water restrictions.
So a little bit tongue-in-cheek
but it's a fun beer and I'm excited to see what people think  of it.
For me personally when I think about
desalinated water and using that in a beer,
I don't really deviate too much from
what I would normally.
Breaking it down and thinking what desal  water actually is
at the end of the day it's basically highly-filtered water
and water chemistry is something that's of fundamental
importance to beer
so having a starting point with minimal
mineral content in terms of our source water
really allows us to customise
what we want to get out of our water profile.
So we will always be adding different things back into the water
to build a profile around our
base so for me the desal project
is highlighting that: that it's just a blank canvas.
It's fun.
It's great to be given an opportunity to
present beers in this
space and start the discussion
about sustainable water sources and
I think in the future
personally it would be really awesome to be able to
push recycled water as an alternate water source.
It's cool to have this competition
and creating this kind of platform
for us to get weird and have fun
with whatever recipes we like using
the desal water - its a cool concept
and i'm excited to see where it goes in the future.
