Worlds Strongest Beer

[nail-Z]

Would you be able to drink a beer that's 32% ABV!!!

"Tactical Nuclear Penguin".

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Only £30 a bottle.

 

[philsussex]

32% !!!!

Bloody hell! Bet it's vile.

 

[vegster]

Be nice with some Absinthe chasers

 

[beorhthelm]

erm, you cant actually brew beer to that strength (~14% max) so this would be a fortified barley wine, wouldnt it?

 

[vegster]

erm, you cant actually brew beer to that strength (~14% max) so this would be a fortified barley wine, wouldnt it?

just so long as it gets you there.. who cares ?

 

[Questions]

Brew Dog make some good beer, Punk Dog and Chaos amonst them. Extreme hoppiness and taste so no good for any of you poofter lager drinkers out there.

 

[Cian]

erm, you cant actually brew beer to that strength (~14% max) so this would be a fortified barley wine, wouldnt it?

They explain how its done, it is brewed as a beer, then cask aged and put through a process of removing water via freezing.

Not sure precisely what this makes it, though.

 

[vegster]

Brew Dog make some good beer, Punk Dog and Chaos amonst them. Extreme hoppiness and taste so no good for any of you poofter lager drinkers out there.

I wondered when you'd wake up

 

[aberllefenni]

Knocks the Uncle Igor's Special Brew at 23% that I've tied into a cocked hat then. For the record tasted bloody horrible.

 

[severnside gull]

can only be evil surely


(but not as evil as the headache that is bound to follow)

 

[beorhthelm]

They explain how its done, it is brewed as a beer, then cask aged and put through a process of removing water via freezing.

ah.. thats quite clever.

 

[Gully]

I can remember a beer called something like EKU 27 that was touted as the World's strongest, can't remember what the strength was...although logically 27% might be about right, if that is what the number in the name relates to.

 

[beorhthelm]

i had no idea, i thought brew dog was some trendy bollocks, these chaps are living the dream

 

[Questions]

Its only 99p a bottle in Tesco. Well worth a try.

 

[Gwylan]

I don't understand the point of this. If it's meant to be drunk in small quantities, how does one keep the beer fresh for subsequent days? Beer is meant to be drunk in one go, it goes off very quickly.

For £30, I could buy a bottle of Laphroig - why would I want to drink a poor substitute?

 

[coventrygull]

I don't understand the point of this. If it's meant to be drunk in small quantities, how does one keep the beer fresh for subsequent days? Beer is meant to be drunk in one go, it goes off very quickly.

For £30, I could buy a bottle of Laphroig - why would I want to drink a poor substitute?

Its just a bit of clever marketing. Its quite interesting it is an imperial stout. I find stouts can maintain their flavour with a high alcohol content.

 

[Trufflehound]

I can remember a beer called something like EKU 27 that was touted as the World's strongest, can't remember what the strength was...although logically 27% might be about right, if that is what the number in the name relates to.

You're thinking of EKU 28, from the Kulmbacher brewery in Bavaria. It's "only" about 12% (although their website currently only claims 11%), putting it in the leading pack, along with the too-sweet Bush Beer from Belgium (12%). I've no idea what the 28 relates to...

 

[Trufflehound]

erm, you cant actually brew beer to that strength (~14% max) so this would be a fortified barley wine, wouldnt it?

Indeed. In the natural beer brewing process - i.e yeast fermenting the sugar and turning it into alcohol - when the alcohol content reaches around 14% it kills the yeast, thereby halting the whole process.

To get the ABV above that you would have to use another means, whether it be evaporation (which I suspect is used for those in the case of those in the 14-18% range), fortification, or freezing to remove water...

According to this there are loads of really strong "beers", but they weren't brewed that way, that's for sure:

The Strongest Beers In The World : RateBeer.com

 

[coventrygull]

I think the previous strongest beer was brewed by Samuel Adams in the US. Think it was about 25% not sure though. Samiclaus is regarded at 14% as the wrolds strongest larger

 

[coventrygull]

Observes world strongest beer list. looks like I was wrong. I think that is a list to seriously avoid.