Royal City Science and Wellington Brewery have teamed up for a special brew: Dark Matter Quantum Lager! This blackberry and meteorite-infused (yes, you read that correctly) lager is truly out of this world.

At this special beer launch event, Wellington Brewery will share insights into how they use water in their beer-making in sustainable ways, and two experts from the University of Guelph will take a deeper dive into Guelph's groundwater and the science of managing such an important resource.

Ticket sales go to supporting Royal City Science in our mission to establish a science centre in Guelph. And try one of our Dark Matter Quantum Lagers!

About the event:

Tracing Your Water: How Rocks, DNA, and PVC Pipe Keep you Hydrated - with Felix Nyarko and Jesse Brown, PhD candidates at UoG’s Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute.

The city of Guelph is the largest city in Canada to get nearly all of its drinking water directly from the ground underneath it. Join us for an evening at the Baker Street Station to hear about the underground coral reefs that this resource is stored in, how groundwater flows, how we get water out of the ground, and how we track water contamination problems. We will also discuss how easy it is to use DNA tracing techniques to understand where groundwater comes from and where it is going.

About the beer:

Dark Matter Quantum Lager with Blackberry & Meteorites

Every second, you experience approximately 2.5 × 10^-16 kilograms of dark matter passing through your body -- until you crack a can of Dark Matter Quantum Lager and blast your senses with 0.473 kilos of stellar goodness!

Of course we used Comet and Galaxy hops in this refreshingly crisp lager, to give the beer a zesty grapefruit and tangerine boost, complimented by a subtle hint of balanced blackberry tart and sweetness. This brew pours a straw-gold with an elusive touch of purple, and if you're lucky, you'll receive a random can with food-grade glitter for the ultimate cosmic pour! *Notify us with a picture to win a prize.* With the addition of Gibeon Meteorites in the boil, this beer will teleport you to new and distant realms- sparking geomagnetic storms, igniting bright polar auroras and showering your tastebuds with meteorite flavour!

Fifty cents from each can is donated to Royal City Science, with a vision of opening up a science centre right here in Guelph that will serve as a hub for informal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education to ignite curiosity, build confidence, and inspire the inner scientist in us all.