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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Steve Cover on June 05, 2012, 03:36:06 PM
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Always on the lookout for something unusual in a bottle, I found this one.
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BrewDog, the Scottish brewery best known for its 32% ABV (alcohol by volume) Tactical Nuclear Penguin beer, is back at it with another beer that not only shatters their previous alcohol content record, but also claims the title of most expensive brew.
Introducing 'The End of History', a 55% ABV beer that costs $765 per 12oz bottle AND COMES IN ITS OWN TAXIDERMIED KOOZIE.
You buy the first round.
I'm tapped out.
Here's the full story
http://player.vimeo.com/video/13537656
Enjoy,
Steve
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And I thought $30 for a liter of Crown was expensive.
To be honest, those high octane beers just don't do it for me. I tried a pint of the Double Bastard from Arrogant Bastard (10.5% abv) and I couldn't just couldn't choke it down. Hell, between myself and my two brothers (all big beer drinkers) we couldn't finish the pint. It just doesn't taste good. It was like being punched in the throat.
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You know what end it goes in before it comes out their mouth. :o
Just sayin!
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Now if you want to try a beer stronger than normal give Maudite a go. 8% by volume. Great taste and not harsh enough that you can't gulp it...but remember most beer in the US runs less than 5%...so you will be getting 2 to 3 times the buzz per beer.
Here is a review http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22/33
And here is who makes it. I've not tried their other beers, but they are on my list.
http://unibroue.com/en/home/
P.S. I don't always drink beer either.....some times it freezes and I have to eat it with a spoon ;D ;D ;D
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Actually, most of the better craft brews are well above 5% ABV these days. I find most domestic beers like Bud, Pabst, Miller, etc pretty much undrinkable these days.
We have so many good breweries locally now that I can buy a different six pack every week and never have the same beer twice in a given year. I've really grown fond of the Dogfish Head beers. These guys are real craftsman...
http://www.dogfish.com/
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Haven't y'all been payin' attenshun to Deepwater, Hazcat and The Rabbit?
Ya want sumpin' with a bit more kick? Brew it up yerself!
You can easily attain 8, 9 even 10+ percent alcohol and retain a wonderful, complex flavor.
It's easy. Tasty. Fun. Tasty. Inexpensive, Tasty. And best of all, it's tasty.
Sheesh, guys, try an' 'member watcha read here.
Crusader Rabbit
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To heck with that beer. I can buy a whole lot of Jim Beam and Dr. Pepper for $765.
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The Pacific Northwest has quite a few micro-breweries, in fact the engineer I sit next to is part owner of one down in Eugene. So far I have found Rogue's Dead Guy, Fat Tire (not from the PNW but Colorado) and Daschutes Brewery's offerings top notch. Not as good as the German beer I consumed twenty years ago but that might not all be about taste ;)
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The Pacific Northwest has quite a few micro-breweries, in fact the engineer I sit next to is part owner of one down in Eugene. So far I have found Rogue's Dead Guy, Fat Tire (not from the PNW but Colorado) and Daschutes Brewery's offerings top notch. Not as good as the German beer I consumed twenty years ago but that might not all be about taste ;)
The German beer IN Germany is beyond compare (I've heard) but they don't export the good stuff!
;D
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Export beers are the sh!t they can't get the natives to buy.
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Export beers are the sh!t they can't get the natives to buy.
And, a good pour is about 1/2 gallon in one of them steins!
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When I was in Germany I had a 3 liter mug and one of my roommates had a 5 liter mug he referred to as his shot glass. You drink one of those and you're shot. ;) We could get a whole case of beer into 2 steins. I broke mine one day when my hand quit working. :'(
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My buddy years ago spent several months visiting relatives in Latvia and Lithuania and spent a good bit of time in Germany! He brought me back a porcelain plaque that read in German;
"In heaven there is no beer, that's why we drink it here!"
I have that buried somewhere in the archives of my yoot!
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When I was in Germany I had a 3 liter mug and one of my roommates had a 5 liter mug he referred to as his shot glass. You drink one of those and you're shot. ;) We could get a whole case of beer into 2 steins. I broke mine one day when my hand quit working. :'(
Was in Germany too.. Loved most German bier
My favorite was local to were I was stationed. It was Bender Bier, out of Arnstien. At the time they produced Pilsner, Lager and Merzen.
I like the Merzen...it was a blend of Pilsner and Lager...I was told....around 9%.
Didn't have a mug, but did tend to keep track of how many I had. My record was on a Saturday when we started at Noon and were back on base by midnight. My personal best was 32 half liter bottles of the wonderful stuff.
Doesn't look like they have the same line-up today though.
http://www.arnsteiner-brauerei.de/index_1.html
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Was in Germany too.. Loved most German bier
My favorite was local to were I was stationed. It was Bender Bier, out of Arnstien. At the time they produced Pilsner, Lager and Merzen.
I like the Merzen...it was a blend of Pilsner and Lager...I was told....around 9%.
Didn't have a mug, but did tend to keep track of how many I had. My record was on a Saturday when we started at Noon and were back on base by midnight. My personal best was 32 half liter bottles of the wonderful stuff.
Doesn't look like they have the same line-up today though.
http://www.arnsteiner-brauerei.de/index_1.html
Isn't that about 4 GALLONS ?
Bet they recorded a rise in the level of the Rhine after that one. ;D
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That would be 16 liters and a liter is a swallow more than a quart, so yes..it would be a bit over 4 gallons...
It was serious work, but we kept at it. Figure 11 hours on the job, that is only 1 half liter every 20 minutes....an easy pace....we had to eat a few times, they that doesn't slow things down.
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No way those bottle skins would work in my neck of the woods........ somebody would get all liquored up and start shootin' at the bottle because it "moved like it was fixin' to run up a tree."
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No way those bottle skins would work in my neck of the woods........ somebody would get all liquored up and start shootin' at the bottle because it "moved like it was fixin' to run up a tree."
;) ;D :-\
They would't work in my house, because my dog would attack it and probably wind up drunk.
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They would't work in my house, because my dog would attack it and probably wind up drunk.
At $765 a bottle "drunk" would be the least of his problems.
Shot would be an option . ;D
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Couldn't drink out side........... "Hey man, there's a squirrel humpin' your liquor bottle!" :o :o
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No way those bottle skins would work in my neck of the woods........ somebody would get all liquored up and start shootin' at the bottle because it "moved like it was fixin' to run up a tree."
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Now that there is funny!! LOL ;D ;D ;D
Hey that s.o.b. just took my beer! ;)