Where You Can Buy the World’s Strongest Beer

1. Uh, maybe the Stranger ought to rewrite that headline; Where You Can the World’s Strongest Beer”

   Where you can do what with the world’s strongest beer?

2. At least Dan can still type when he’s drunk. Well, mostly.

3. How the fuck do you get beer to 32% alcohol without distilling it?

4. @3:Chill it so the water in the beer freezes and then remove the frozen water, leaving the sweet, sweet alcohol.

5. Time to start bugging Five Star Beers about carrying it!

6. Ten bucks says it tastes like shit.

7. I’m pretty sure there is a German Doppelbock with an ABV of 34%, making this the world’s second strongest beer, but once you get over 20%, it probably doesn’t matter too much. Also, irresponsible? As if drinking a high ABV beer is any more dangerous than downing a few shots of jack or goose. This is the same retarded logic that brings out the concern trolls who go off about “super strong pot” that is soooo dangerous because it has a higher THC content than it did in the 1960s.

8. Seriosly, what’s the point of this? 32% ABV is only slightly less alcoholic than most distilled spirits. So, aside from the (apparently dubious) bragging rights, why would anyone even want to drink thsi?

9. Compte: In light of your comment about this beer being “slightly less alcoholic than most distilled spirits”, your question makes no sense. Millions of people drink distilled spirits on a daily basis, so why would drinking this beer be any different? If this beer is anything like Sam Adams Utopias, I would certainly like to drink it.

10. Scotland can be pretty depressing.

11. The point @9 is: 40% ABV distilled spirits are generally served in 1 to 2 ounce portions; sometimes as much as 4 ounces if you’re drinking a Long Island Iced Tea or something similar. Most beer and ale run between 4 and 7% ABV (Imperial Stouts can run a little higher; up to 9%, while barley wines typically hit 11 or 12%, roughly equivalent to wine, which generally runs 12 – 13.5% ABV), so you can drink it by the pint without getting falling-over-shit-faced-drunk on the first drink. And of course, the higher the alcohol content, the smaller the serving portion.

    A 32% ABV beer is about seven or eight times stronger than a typical domestic lager like Bud, Miller, PBR et al. So, figure a legal serving would would pencil out to roughly 2.5 to maybe 3 ounces per, or about the equivalent of two shots of distilled spirits. Drinking one 330 ml bottle of Tactical Nuclear Penguin (slightly less than an American 12 ounce bottle) would essentially deliver the equivalent alcohol dosage of an entire six-pack of domestic lager or about 4.5 to 5 bottles of ale in a single serving. Think about how much time the average person would normally need to drink that much, versus how long it takes to drink a single bottle and you can understand why some people might be a bit concerned.

    But, be that as it may, it sounds like they’re doing a very limited bottling of this – only 500 according to industry sources – so it’s unlikely more than a lucky handful on this side of the briny are going to get a taste – and at $50 per bottle at that.

    Still, they’re obviously generating tons of press, which is really the entire point of this exercise.

12. LOL. I heard about the Tactical Nuclear Penguin. I’d just stick to my bitter, thanks. Oh, and for the record, high-alcohol beer tastes almost exactly as bad as low-alcohol beer. Really – just drink water or vodka, but let’s not encourage the awful beer manufacturers. (Still a really cool name though. The duck from The Wrong Trousers, anyone?

    Also, they don’t say how they serve this beer, whether in pints (not completely unlikely) or in shots (possible).

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