World's Strongest Beer
A scottish brewery have claimed to come up with the world's strongest beer which should be treated like a spirit.
The beer, called Tactical Nuclear Penguin, is apparently 32% proof.
Anyone want one?
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Ouch.
The strongest beer I've ever had was Björnebryg, at a comparatively measly 7,3%. It tasted like utter crap. I'm afraid of what the penguin variety might taste like.
Also, what's up with strong beer and polar animals?
I'll take one, but it's also been my experience that high alcohol beers tend to taste pretty foul. Anything over 10% is usually off tasting.
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Maybe the trend started because ice beer is also a stronger beer?Originally posted by Walpurgis
I'd probably try this one, but I'd try it in the same way I try a bottle of whiskey: itty bitty amounts.
I had an 11% beer in Germany that I was told was 33%. They lied damn it. Yes, I'd like to try this new superbeer.
Arriving late to the Big Beer thread. I've had a pile of 8-12% Belgian beers, which were all AWESOME. Bush/Scaldis, Piraat, Delerium Tremens, etc. I think 10-12% barley wine varieties are pretty common in the states now, even outside Oregon and Washington, and many of them are just swell.
I'm a bit 'meh' about the TNP idea as they appear to have gotten it that high not just through yeast and grain choice but some sort of eisbocky freeze-distilling which IMO is cheating, and the Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA or Sam Adams Utopia doing it strictly via yeast choice. I mean. . . the eisbock thing has been done traditionally, but so has scotch. Is this "beer"?
Used sneak Molsen XXX into the States. It was (is?) 7.7% k-hol.
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It's not possible for normal, straight-up beer to get that strong, is it? So they had to have further processed it somehow to increase the concentration of ethanol. What do they do to make it that strong?
Ice distilling-- freeze out some of the water to up to alcohol concentration.
Strongest beer I've ever had is Arrogant Bastard.
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Geez...BrewDog said its newly released 41%, Sink the Bismarck, would cost £40 for a 330ml bottle and would only be sold online.
Part of the confusion might be because there is two ways to measure alcohol; by weight and by volume and you get different percentages from each measurement.
The strongest beer I've had is probably Sam Adams Trile Bock. It was OK but not something anyone would drink every day.
Sink the Bismarck is at 41% abv or about 80 proof (US).
Pretty much like drinking neat whisky.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
LL-- this isn't confusion, this is a semantic game they're playing with a definition of beer according to tax law. It's basically. . . scotch. With hops. Freeze-distilled instead of heat-distilled.
I was referring to An Gadai's experience with the beer of confusing strength in Germany.
What's the point of strong beer?
You can sell beer once as a novelty, or you can sell it repeatedly if it's any good.
I guess small brewers think they can find enough folks who want to say they've tried the stuff.
Gimme an Okochim and let's call it a day.
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I've never had a Scottish beer I'd call good.
A Scottish beer that shouldn't be treated as a beer....I'll give it a pass.
Whah? Ok, start with a bottle of Old Engine Oil. Frikkin deelicious.
OK, if I find it, I'll try it.
I gotta say, though, the name does not scream "quality beer" to me.
This beer: http://www.unibroue.com/products/maudite.cfm
My husband really likes it.
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This here is the Storm King. An excellent beer, and my favorite Stout. As heavy as it is delicious.
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