32% abv? It must taste like gasoline.

This just in: Drew seen running through the lobby of Glasgow international airport carrying nothing but a funnel and a family sized bottle of advil.

Well, I know what I'm thankful for.

Somehow, I'm not surprised by the location.

/Probably tastes like nail polish too

FTA - It is a product with a lot of alcohol in it - that's all. To dress it up as anything else is cynical."

Is cynical one of those words that means something different over there?

dammit now I want one. do they ship to Canada?

Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown NY makes some very good high-AC Belgian-style beers.

/alcohol content, not armor class
//partial to the rare vos

Is it bad that I giggled at the name of the beer? It sounds like it belongs to a punk rock band.

/btw, haddie, you rock for making me LOL so loud it startled my cat with your comment.

Also IIRC dogfish head has an IPA around 20% alcohol.

morrach: cynical

"cynical" is their word for an elevator, alternately a "lorry"

Bonanza Jellybean: Also IIRC dogfish head has an IPA around 20% alcohol.

Looked it up, their 120 Minute IPA, Fort and World Wide Stout are all 18% by volume.

Wow and I though the Sam Adams Imperial White at 10.3% ABV tasted like cough syrup, this probably tastes like complete ass.

I will be really surprised if it doesn't just taste like hopped whiskey.

natemc: hopped whiskey.

Intrigued, newsletter, etc.

"Tactical Nuclear Penguin", that's a good name for a band.

Alcohol Focus Scotland appears to be an organization of professional whiney-pants crybabies

This one will put hair on your eyelids:

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morrach: This one will put hair on your eyelids:

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Wow I was way late on that one.

hubiestubert: natemc: Wow and I though the Sam Adams Imperial White at 10.3% ABV tasted like cough syrup, this probably tastes like complete ass.

I will be really surprised if it doesn't just taste like hopped whiskey.

Pretty much my thought. A Boilermaker without the accompanying shot glass...

luckily, after the first few gulps you probably won't care about the taste

hubiestubert: Absolutely! Then I RTFA and saw this...

"It was then stored in a freezer at a chilly -20°C for three weeks to reach its massive alcohol level."

Freeze distilling! I'm revoking it's beer card, this is not beer. I also bet it gives you one hell of a hangover thanks to all the fusel alcohols that don't get taken out in this method of distillation.

Also just freeze distilling a stout doesn't take as much skill as crafting a mash that will hit a target that high and then getting it to ferment completely, that would be a worthy feat.

People scoffing at the taste, I hope you aren't a beer drinker.

/beer is nasty

Gah...that's not beer, that's vodak. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.

I'd certainly be interested to see how they pulled that off...

In the meantime I'll stick with my Weyerbacher Quad (new window)



11.8 ABV Abbey-style Quad which is absolutely delicious

LavenderWolf: People scoffing at the taste, I hope you aren't a beer drinker.

/beer is nasty

some, definitely. cold Alaskan Winter Ale, however, is heaven in a glass imho

also,



BEER SNOB THREAD!

Fleet: I imagine it tastes not unlike used motor oil.


It probably does taste somewhat similar to Old Engine Oil

Alyna_jf: the only thing to make this better is to make it taste like bacon.

I think i just creamed my panties.

They make one... Beer made with smoked hops for a bacon flavor. (new window)

Now, start creaming...

/Have had it.
//Bacon, and beer... want one now!

Interesting, I was just watching a homebrew podcast earlier this week where they discussed making ice beer in a similar manner. The took a big porter and iced it down to 20 something percent abv, their take was that it came out kind of like brandy. Funny enough they also touched on legality as distillation at home is not legal, but the ATF apparantly stopped caring after getting sucked into DHS and their state board had no objections.

fearmongert: Alyna_jf: the only thing to make this better is to make it taste like bacon.

I think i just creamed my panties.

They make one... Beer made with smoked hops for a bacon flavor. (new window)

Now, start creaming...

/Have had it.
//Bacon, and beer... want one now!

Shiner Smokehaus is pretty good, and reasonably priced.

Big deal. Any beer can be made to be 32% alcohol. Just buy a bottle of Everclear and add it to your favorite beer.

FURIOUS health chiefs last night slammed brewery bosses after they launched the strongest beer in the WORLD.

Good thing they don't sell vodka, rum, gin, whiskey or tequila in that country. Then they'd really be in trouble.

I found this one from the same brewery http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/on-hiatus-brews/golden-shower-imp erial-pilsner.htm do you think it tastes like p***

16 months in whisky casks? It's friggin beer-flavoured swish!

I can get a 40oz of Pit Bull High Gravity Malt Liquor for about $1.79, it's about as ghetto as you can get and cheaper than dirt.

It's only 10.2% alcohol but when they sell it that cheap, it's guaranteed to disorient you in a hurry.

Fleet: I imagine it tastes not unlike used motor oil. It may have the same consistency, too.

You've obviously tried Scottish beer before...

Gee Willikers - thank FSM it's £30 ($50) a bottle. If it were cheap, I can see half of Scotland's youth being taken to the hospital with alcohol poisoning. Oh, wait, that's a normal thing over there anyway, unfortunately. As a frequent visitor to Scotland, and having seen first hand how those boys and girls drink, I find it amazing that young men and woman have any liver functions after the age of 25 (I've seen the brother of a friend of mine drink a bottle of scotch, way too many beers and wash down 7 or 8 paracetamol tabs before passing out, and he's considered a light weight).

Jack Law, chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, said: "It is child-like attention-seeking by a company that should be more responsible.

I have to agree with the gentleman. It does seem like attention whoring. Why, for the love of Mike do we need a beer with 32% abv? It must taste like methylated spirits, not that I've ever tried meths.

I know, I know. Get off my lawn.

Is that distilled? WTH kind of yeast do you use for that ABV?

oh mighty beer snobs of fark, answer me this question: At what percent does a beer become a barleywine, or are they different regardless of alcohol content.


/my two recent faves.
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