Martin Dickie (left) and James Watt with a 41% volume ale called Sink the Bismarck!
Posted on 02/16/2010 7:57:04 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Controversial brewery has produced a 41 per cent volume ale that it claims is the strongest in the world
Scottish firm BrewDog said its new creation, named Sink The Bismarck!, "takes beer to a whole new level".
Martin Dickie (left) and James Watt with a 41% volume ale called Sink the Bismarck!
The launch of the record-strength IPA comes weeks after German brewer Schorschbrau appeared to take the strongest beer title with its 40% strength Schorschbock.
BrewDog, of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, said its newly-unveiled Sink The Bismarck! costs £40 for a 330ml bottle and will only be sold via its website.
The company said the beer, which is stronger than whisky and vodka, should be consumed in spirit-sized measures.
Managing director James Watt said: "In true BrewDog fashion we've torn up convention, blurred distinctions and pushed brewing to its limits with this audacious amplified ale."
The firm drew criticism from industry watchdog the Portman Group last year when it unveiled a 32% beer, Tactical Nuclear Penguin.
It has also faced claims that its 18.2% Tokyo beer promoted excess.
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Interesting. Someone has developed whiskey that tastes like guano.
Bottoms up!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nOZa7tGoH0
Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers (ZZ-TOP)
Ummm... that’s not beer, that’s hard liquor... LOL...
Amplified all right. As in way fortified with distilled spirits up to the power of some hard liquors. There is no known beer fermentation process that could get beer even close to this. This seems to defeat the whole purpose of beer. Beer shouldn’t burn when it’s chugged.
Distilled wine is brandy.
Distiled beer, evidently, is Sink the Bismarck!
yitbos
A brewing process with yeast still active at 82 proof?
Serving beer in a shot glass now, are we?
Somebody else did this a while back. It’s made by freeze drying (in a vacum), like Ice Beer, which evaporates out the water, leaving the concentrated alcohol and flavor. Thats the opposite process from distillation, where the alcohol is evaporated out of the orignal product then condensed.
Eiswein
Whewwwww, sounds delicious! I’m a big IPA fan but Dogfish 90 is almost too much for me, at least on a daily basis. I’d love to try a Dogfish 120 but that stuff is $16 a 12oz. bottle.
I could not realistically drink a bottle of this stuff.
I’m gonna wait for the 40 oz can. It’ll give a whole new meaning to “Hold muh beer and lookit this!”
"Just one beer, officer. Honest!"
Distillation isn’t fermentation. Fermentation goes to maybe 20% (40 proof) tops before the alcohol-rich mixture cannot support the fermentation yeast. Brandies are “fortified” wines, that is, wines with distilled spirits added. Merely distilling a wine (or a beer) would result in something akin to a raw vodka or whisky.
“Amplified all right. As in way fortified with distilled spirits up to the power of some hard liquors”
They could just take any beer and throw in a small amount of PGA and get that result, I guess.
Too-much-of-a-good-thing PING!
What does the Professional Golf Association have to do with this crazy liquor?
From Wiki:
Brandy (from brandywine, derived from Dutch brandewijn—"burnt wine") [1] is a spirit produced by distilling wine, the wine having first been produced by fermenting grapes.
yitbos
Not correct. Brandy is twice distilled after fermentation and is not "fortified". Fortified wine is quite different and is usually swill like MD2020 or Nighttrain.
No need for heat/distillation when you could just freeze it and remove the water as ice. Alcohol (ethyl) doesn't freeze 'till you get to -70°F.
Regards,
GtG
PS That's how Grampa made apple jack from cider.
“What does the Professional Golf Association have to do with this crazy liquor?”
HAHAHA.. I am, of course, referring to the liquid PGA :P
dern libertarians.
ya got me fair and square there. except the same wikipedia names many classy varieties of fortified wine such as sherry and port. it isn’t all mad dog 20 20.
It's true that some finer wines such as sherry and port and a few others are fortified, but only by a small amount to 15% to 20% or maybe a little more.
This would make for ultimate Boilermaker.
Gayest looking beer ever! Looking at the picture I get the impression that they are playing the Village People's "in the Navy" as background music.
Oh, we didn’t sink the Bismarck
and we didn’t fight at all.
We spent our time in Norfolk
and we really had a ball,
Chasin’ after women
while our ship was overhauled,
A-livin’ it up on grapefruit juice
and sickbay alcohol.
(c) Homer and Jethro
I think I can do the same mixing some courvoisier cognac and Guinness.
the 120 is good stuff, at a touch over 20% its the equivalent to a 6 pack of bud light for alcohol content.
i get it up here at $42/4 pack- which is just enough for two people for an evening.
it ages quite well too. drink it out of a snifter for best results.
you could do it backwards and get the same effect.
Pretty much you are on the floor unconscious either way.
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