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Everyone likes a beer, right?

I'm not sure about this one...

https://www.88brewery.com/

At that strength can it be beer, can it be legal?



£39.99 a bottle.

The website says they recommend only drinking it in 35ml shots.

I used to buy the strong beers in France from monasteries.
Very nice.

Yeah, but The trappist stuff it usually nearer 12%

Ach its not Gluten Free so they can keep it. If you do find yourself looking for nice beer i would recommend working your way through the Williams Brothers range

https://www.williamsbrosbrew.com/

I was only three month into them and when told i was Coeliac. Gutted as i never found a shit one

Iirc the original idea of these super strong beers was that they had spirits ABV, but they'd never been distilled. Thus you got new flavours not found anywhere else. ISTR Sam Adams (sic) did a 40% one which was brewed using all sorts of new clever tricks.

Adding distilled alcohol to make a beer 75% is cheating though?

The Westerham brewery do a nice range of GF beer, lager and Stouts. I'm slowly working through a 24 pack of Audit Ale and Double Stout.

https://store.westerhambrewery.co.uk/ca ... eer?page=4

MingtheMerciless wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 6:55 pm The Westerham brewery do a nice range of GF beer, lager and Stouts. I'm slowly working through a 24 pack of Audit Ale and Double Stout.

https://store.westerhambrewery.co.uk/ca ... eer?page=4

And 440ml tins what is a nice change. Only thing available in my local shops is shit GF Tennents Lager and Peroni if i go to the pub.

It's saying £50 a bottle now.
To get the same amount of alcohol would take 15 small bottles of 5% beer, for £50 I bet those 15 taste a hell of a lot better.

Mussels wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 6:58 pm It's saying £50 a bottle now.
To get the same amount of alcohol would take 15 small bottles of 5% beer, for £50 I bet those 15 taste a hell of a lot better.

I got my price from here...

https://www.drinksupermarket.com/beithir-fire-330ml-75

Nasty.
The best beers are <5% 6 tops. Above that it starts to hit you like wine and you can't really quaff it in reasonable quantities.

DefTrap wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 7:18 pm Nasty.
The best beers are <5% 6 tops. Above that it starts to hit you like wine and you can't really quaff it in reasonable quantities.

I used to enjoy Tolly Cobbold bitter, it wasn't much stronger than Top Deck

20 years ago ASDA Farm Stores 2.2% Lager used to be quite refreshing. It was cheap as chips too.

You'd drown before you got pissed on it tho'

KungFooBob wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:15 pm 20 years ago ASDA Farm Stores 2.2% Lager used to be quite refreshing. It was cheap as chips too.

You'd drown before you got pissed on it tho'

I love those cheap & weak beers when I'm in a situation where I'm expected to drink but don't want to get drunk. Any family get together.

Having tasted most of the beers avaible in France Belgium and Germany I have enjoyed a lot of very nice and strong beers. Rodenbach, witt beer, fischer, trois months, chimay (blue and red), duvel, kwak, grimbergen....
The stuff I enjoy at the moment is goose island ipa.
Lots of nice stuff out there.

I loves Grimbergen.

in my days of dealing with the alcoholic beverage industry the maximum alcohol content was around the 12-13%. And none of them taste great.
The only way they are going that is adding back gain spirt

Holy fook! Is that 75%

I remember having some eku beer (20% or around that) and it did not taste nice.
Agreed if a beer is well brewed a 8-12% can still taste nice.

Delirium Tremens or Kwak for the strong stuff.

I like Affligem Blonde too, but it's not that common in the UK.

The wife likes Leffe Blonde, so we drink more of that anything else.

Mr Moofo wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 10:30 pm in my days of dealing with the alcoholic beverage industry the maximum alcohol content was around the 12-13%. And none of them taste great.
The only way they are going that is adding back gain spirt

I think that was the point of the original super strong beers though.

Normally the 12% max comes about because you kill the yeast when you get stronger. The only way to get much above 12% was to distill or add pure sprit in.

"They" invented new techniques with cooling and circulation and whatever to get the brew up to 20-40% without distillation or pure spirit. Thereby preserving the chemicals that normally get boiled away during distillation.

https://www.samueladams.com/utopias