Worlds strongest beer?
After sampling Brewdog's Tactical Nuclear Penguin with friends (32% and 35 quid) which at the time was the strongest beer in the world I decided it needed pimping.

As us men were sampling the real stuff the girlies were enjoying a bottle of Veuve Cliqot Champagney stuff.

I needed to mix the two. I felt indulgent. And the outcome was rather nice actually.

Buggered if I can find the photos we took of it though.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 10:00, 13 replies)

Blimey, the strongest beer I've ever tasted is Eku 28, 11%.

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 4 Aug 2011, 10:40, closed)

I'm not sure it's really beer, at that strength
...since above a certain strength, normal beer yeast won't work. That's why Barley Wine is so called - it uses wine yeast.

However, I can't be arsed to google it, so by all means tell me I'm wrong.

Or maybe they simply inject raw alcohol into the beer in a lock-up in Bolton?
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 11:07, closed)

Cool...
They're generally produced via Fractional Freezing, the same process that creates an Ice-Wine, therefore causing the ability to create super-strong beers via fermentation rather than distillation, therefore still being recognisable as a Beer.
( Hunter Stockton was murdered by a bicycle wielding axolotl,.,.,.,., Thu 4 Aug 2011, 11:57, closed)

It's still distillation.
it's just freeze distillation rather than heat distillation.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 13:45, closed)

I stand
corrected.
( Hunter Stockton was murdered by a bicycle wielding axolotl,.,.,.,., Thu 4 Aug 2011, 14:07, closed)

I don't think that they achieve that strength by brewing. I think that they use fractional crystallisation to achieve that strength.

The argument runs that because most of the brew is left (apart from some of water) then it can be classed as beer rather than spirit..
(silene, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:01, closed)

they can call it what the fuck they like
however the process runs, it'd still legally be a spirit as it is distilled.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 13:48, closed)

32%?
Once you've gotten past all of the bravado I bet that tastes like shit to be fair.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 11:48, closed)

half a sherry glass full was enough
Both for the livers and the palette. It was very... chewy.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 13:42, closed)

Strong beer
Since TNP they released "Sink the Bismarck" at 41%, and the appropriately named "The End of History" at 55%. EoH comes packaged in bottles cased in stuffed animals - quite cute really, though it's not very (a) affordable - minimum £500 a bottle; or (b) available - 12 bottles produced.
( Hunter Stockton was murdered by a bicycle wielding axolotl,.,.,.,., Thu 4 Aug 2011, 11:53, closed)

Our mate who got the TNP has also ordered some of the viagra laced brew they made
I don't think we'll be sampling that at one of his parties though.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 13:58, closed)

It's impossible to brew alcohol much above 15%
because at that strength it kills the yeast and turns off fermentation. Anything above that strength must have some kind of distilled spirit added to it to fortify it up to 32%. Adding Champagney to this will only lower the alcoholic content by diluting it. What are you, some kind of southern shandy drinking Jesse?
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 12:46, closed)

there are plenty of yeast strains that'll hit 20% plus.
but in this case, it isn't fortified, it is freeze distilled - the water is removed from it because it preferentially solidifies before the alcohol does. Unlike a traditional still, however, this will leave the "gubbins" behind, so you'll end up with beer flavoured alcohol rather than just ... alcohol.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 13:47, closed)