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We love beer and we need water. Do we have to choose?
Josh Hayter, president of Kingston-based Spearhead Brewing Co., is living happily with both. Though he’s always had a broad range of in-house beers at his elbow, his choices have expanded since last September, when the company introduced a sparkling botanical water called Akwa.
“I just love it,” Hayter says. “I’m drinking six or eight cans a day.”
But there’s a reason Hayter isn’t taking his water from the tap. Akwa, again, is a botanical water, infused with citra and cascade hops. One wouldn’t be far off in describing it as beer made without malt, the product of as much care and attention as the brewing of an ale or a stout.
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