Well, here it is. The most recent claim to the strongest beer in the world. It’s a tiny little bottle filled with 57.8% ABV. That is not a typo, I did not put the decimal point in the wrong place, I did not miss a zero, I did not mistake proof for ABV (for the record, this is 115 proof).
The little bottle was easy to open, which considering I’ve had some waxed bottles that required a knife and surgical tools to open, I appreciate. I could smell the beer from the second it was opened, strong and potent, with a lot of dark fruit notes. It pours with no carbonation (as expected) with dark cherry highlights when held up to light, and a reddish brown when sitting in the glass. It coats the inside of the glass and has legs that put Warty to shame.
Taking the first sip, and it is fire. Strong alcohol flavor, and a lot of alcohol burn. There’s a touch of sweetness in the beginning, but the fire kills it quickly. There’s a long lingering finish as the burn fades that dries out the mouth, and has a touch of hop bitterness. Taking a bigger sip after the first couple of nips, and I’m able to pull more of the sweetness in, and feel the warming down my throat. The dark fruit notes come back in the larger sip, but this is a mighty beer and the alcohol heat is the predominant note.
Since it’s a small amount, it warms up quickly, but this may do better chilled a bit to take some of the edge off. I considered adding a couple of drops of water, like one would to a cask strength whiskey, but that seemed counter to the entire concept of the beer.
As I’m working my way through the pour, I’m very glad that the bottle was small, I don’t think I would want to go through even a 4 ounce mini can of this.
I’ll say I’m glad I finally got the chance to try one of these monster ABV beers (I believe the strongest I’ve had before was only in the 18-19% ABV range. This was not an inexpensive little nip, and I’m glad I have a second one to share with someone, but I would not go out of my way to get it again.
Overall, if you’re looking to tick off rare and strong beers, this is a must try. I wouldn’t suggest it to anyone who’s not really into craft beer to the point that they can at least name some of the other attempts to break the records. For enjoyment, I would say this is around a three out of five. For rarity and for hitting the mark for what they wanted to do (which partially was to put an end to the wars for the strongest beer), this is hitting the nail on the head, and gets it a five out of five.
So what does that mean for an overall rating? Why do you care? I’m writing this up to give you an idea of the entire experience and thoughts behind it, do you really want and need it boiled down to a single number? Fine, I give this a 32i as a final rating.
Fine, I give this a 32i as a final rating.
🙂
If I had a chance, I’d try it.
Same.
think we’ve discussed it before, but what specifically qualifies this as a beer? The yeast process vice distilling for liquour? Does it take a lot more work/time to get this to ABV?
My question also. I tend to think of beer as “not distilled”, and this is ice distilled, I believe.
Would try in a heartbeat.
I agree on both counts.
Samichlaus, at one point, was the world’s strongest lager at something like 14% ABV. The brewer used a special yeast to get to that point.
Ice distilled? Isn’t that a jack instead of a beer?
Well, here it is. The most recent claim to the strongest beer in the world. It’s a tiny little bottle filled with 57.8% ABV. That is not a typo, I did not put the decimal point in the wrong place, I did not miss a zero, I did not mistake proof for ABV (for the record, this is 115 proof).
That’s nice. If I wanted to get shitfaced I’d go back to drinking Wild Turkey.
+1 Kickin’ Chicken
Yikes! Even I must pass on this one,
interesting though, thanks!
So what does that mean for an overall rating? Why do you care? I’m writing this up to give you an idea of the entire experience and thoughts behind it, do you really want and need it boiled down to a single number? Fine, I give this a 32i as a final rating.
Whatever turns you on, man. If that’s what you want, it’s good somebody is there to provide.
*”you” is used in the broadest generic sense.
Somebody referred to Flaming River(?) Blonde Ale. I have looked a couple of times, but haven’t found it. Maybe “blonde ale” is beerficionado code for a style I would like.
I would not have thought that possible.
Oh, FWIW Neph, I still think your were closer to the truth about Borlaug (Fleming too, for that matter) than they were on deadthread.
I like the Mises bunch, but sometimes forest !== trees with them.
There’s a strain of the same knee jerk reflexive “Amerika” like from the radical left.
Yes. It’d be amusing under better political circumstances.
I loved the high ABV beers (in the mentioned 18-19% range) I got to sample in Germany years ago, but this a bit much.
What’s a 32i, though I have no reason to know?
a joke
Better than a 31, not quite as good as a 32h.
32i is a category on boobpedia.
I didn’t look to see if 32h is.
Q, is that you?
32 * sqr(-1)
Yeah, I’d wonder about that too.
Doesn’t 57.8% ABV run counter to the concept of beer?
At least its not an IPA.
You’re just bitter.
I’m pretty open about that at least. Do I not own my crumudgeoness?
Is that even a word?
CURmugeonness.
But it is perfectly cromulent.
You couldn’t be more right.
Wow!
I’m pretty sure that I haven’t had anything stronger than 11%.
Thanks, Neph. Excellent review.
Reality rears it’s ugly head
On the future of the internal combustion engine, Germany has gotten its own way, again.
The European Commission and Germany’s Transport Ministry announced a deal Saturday morning that commits the EU executive to figuring out a legal way to allow the sale of new engine-installed cars running exclusively on synthetic e-fuels even after a mandate comes into force requiring sales of only zero-emission vehicles from 2035.
“We have found an agreement with Germany on the future use of e-fuels in cars,” the Commission’s Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans said on Twitter. “We will work now on getting the CO2 standards for cars regulation adopted as soon as possible.”
The deal heads off a row over car legislation that was all-but-agreed until Germany, along with a small club of allies, slammed on the brakes just days before formal final approval on a law that is the centerpiece of the EU’s green agenda.
Timmermans said the Commission would “follow up swiftly” with “legal steps” to turn a non-binding annex to the law, introduced originally at the insistence of Europe’s car-making titan Germany, into a concrete workaround allowing new vehicles running on e-fuels, which do emit some CO2, to be sold post-2035.
Eliminating all internal combustion power units is a vapid fantasy, but we must perpetuate the monstrous lie of “zero emissions” vehicles.By hook or by crook.
I’m tiring of the arguments but once again I ask: when do we consider life cycle when discussing emissions?
More greenie retardation:
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1639124149833707520
The watermelons will never look at the life cycle. They want ICE killed. After the fact, a few will acknowledge the truth while telling you it is for the greater good.
The jig is up and this is the first crack?
Of course true believers like New York and California will ride the fantasy until it blows up because racism or some shit.
Absolutely. I read the linked article by Manhattan Contrarian. I also keep up with what’s happening in my own increasingly dystopian state. My guess is in 5-7 years the state governments will not be able to paper over the cracks in the system. A hot summer with NYC or LA experiencing two or three day blackouts will make the point.
WTF is “synthetic e-fuels”?
Liquid electricity?
Liquid Schwartz!
That’s the stuff they keep behind the counter at the local smoke shop.
Soylent Green?
*fills fuel tank with PEOPLE*
Since the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal, most carmakers have shifted their investments toward electric vehicles, but some industry interests, notably high-end carmakers such as Porsche and Germany’s web of combustion engine component makers, have sought to save traditional gas guzzlers from the clutches of a de facto EU sales ban.
Figuring out a final workaround on e-fuels in the 2035 legislation will still take some months, given that technical standards haven’t yet been clarified for setting out a “robust and evasion-proof” system for selling cars that can only be fuelled on synthetic alternatives to petrol and diesel, according to Samsom’s statement.
The timeline is already clear in Berlin’s perspective. “We want the process to be completed by autumn 2024,” said the German Transport Ministry, which is run by the country’s Free Democratic Party. The FDP, the most junior in Germany’s three-way governing coalition, had wanted fixed legal language to guarantee a loophole for e-fuels, which can theoretically be CO2-neutral but which wouldn’t normally comply with the emissions legislation since they do still emit tailpipe pollutants.
Not good enough. The goal is elimination of internal combustion, not clean air.
Because as we all know electricity comes from the wall.
It’d be funny to get an estimate of the number of electric cars owned that have a coal-burning power plant as a source.
Also, for you Sensei, (also straffinrun if he’s around) Japan’s longest lived companies., and why some of them aren’t doing so well.
NJ is about 50% nuclear so I like to say my car is nuclear powered.
A big issue with Japan is cross ownership of companies and how it avoids accountability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu
Nice smear of any gas power as “gas guzzlers”.
robust and evasion-proof
Oh, you mean like exempting vehicles over certain dimensions leading to a new F-150 being the same size as a 1 ton F-350 20 years ago? I’m sure they’ll never figure out how to engineer around the rules.
First, you take the gasoline you would have normally used, do some chemical engineering on it (releasing extra greenhouse gases in the process) to turn it into basically the same thing, and tada- efuel.
It starts with “e”—that makes it good and noble.
You know this is exactly what’s happening.
C’mon. That’s just some chem dweeb that took a piss in the gas.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/24/white-house-worried-over-janet-yellens-fumbling-of-us-bank-crisis-sources/
Also, through regular fermentation I seem to remember no more than 20% is possible. How do they fortify this?
The question is if they’re going to consolidate the fiscal plan behind Powell or put somebody even more opposed to him in place.
I’d guess the latter.
“E-fuels are an expensive and massively inefficient diversion from the transformation to electric facing Europe’s carmakers,” said Julia Poliscanova from the green group Transport & Environment.
Huh. What happened to “If the government mandates it, it will magically happen”?
Wow.
Horrible footage from Mississippi.
https://twitter.com/JordanHallWX/status/1639614835594866689
Damn…
Today, on Fools and Their Money
The Brentwood estate, now known as the Star Resort, was built by veteran spec developer Ramtin Ray Nosrati, who sold it back in 2021 for $44 million. According to public records, the almost 16,700-square-foot residence was purchased by the trust of wealthy investor Jeffrey Feinberg, who runs Feinberg Investments.
About a year after buying it, Feinberg put the home back on the market for $48 million but couldn’t find any takers. Feinberg brought in Dan Malka of Ikon Advisors to implement a more aggressive pricing strategy, and the original asking price was chopped down $10 million, or almost 21%. To put that price cut into perspective, it amounts to the home dropping almost $64,000 in value every single week for 94 weeks straight since Feinberg bought it.
Malka told CNBC yearly real estate taxes on the Star Resort run his client around $550,000 a year, plus about $20,000 a month in utilities.
“Plus, the staff and so on, so probably a million dollars of expenses [per year],” Malka said.
“Look at me, everybody! I’m a financial wizard!”
What an ugly house. Reminds me of current resort properties and not in a good way.
The is quite literally nothing that appeals to me about that house.
Hideous.
Looks like the architect designed it with Legos.
That’s an insult to Legos.
That was my first thought.
LOL, suckers. That tax is going to fund more Caribbean vacations than “affordable housing”.
I dunno. Put up a backstop around all sides of the basketball court, a few empty drums, some targets, and you have a nice little practical shooting range.
The actual house parts look small and cramped for how much square footage there is.
So you’re saying it might not be worth the 40 million initial investment and 3 million a year in taxes and upkeep costs?
I bet most of the people trying to sell before the new tax kicks in we’re enthusiastic supporters of the Dems who imposed the tax.
They don’t care. They now live in a stately manor in Sedona.
Guaranteed. They are also going to be shocked when the tax raises substantially less than they predicted and multifamily construction declines.
I bet that was a fun house during our two months of rain. lol
Meh, it isn’t too bad. I little too modern for my tastes, but I have seen worse. I would, however, turn the stupid basket ball court into a small-bore shooting range.
But spec houses are tricky, you want to time them to hit (go on sale) when the market peaks, and not when it is sitting in a trough, like no
w. Also, you have to be able to play the regulatory game, or you could get burned.
I read that the Russians are pulling out their old mothballed T-54/55 tanks and putting them back into service. These are tanks that were already obsolete against western tanks in the 70s. Imagine being put into one of those and being told to roll into a warzone against modern tanks and weaponry.
That’s been one of those stories that varies wildly depending on where it’s coming from. Here’s the other end of the spectrum.
https://www.rt.com/russia/573470-medvedev-russian-defense-industry/
It sounds like they are refurbishing and upgrading some of those old tanks – but not sending them directly into combat in 1960 vintage condition.
If it were me – granted I never was a track-toad – I’d use them to help secure rear areas or maybe to guard the flanks of an advance, upgraded or otherwise. I sure wouldn’t put them out aiming at the Schwerpunkt.
Well, supposedly the Russians used their worst troops to kick off the invasion*, so putting your worst tanks at the pointy end would be consistent with that.
*An excuse I have seen for why it stalled and got pushed back.
They were using multiple “elite” formations as well during the initial invasion. If you don’t prep even good troops mentally before sending them into combat- it shows.
Using crap formations now as the lead elements in an offensive would not surprise me. That idea was popular with Russia, the USSR, and now probably Russia.
I’m sure they’re being refurbished, but there’s only so much you can do.
One of the fasinating things about this report, it is being seen as how horrible Russia is, while those making that claim are usually the first ones to praise the Warthog plane.
What’s wrong with the A-10? It seems like it is excellent at fulfilling its intended role.
Collecting funds from congressmen that want to appear supportive of the troops?
Imagine being put into one of those and being told to roll into a warzone against modern tanks and weaponry.
Moriarty : You guys are crazy. Look when we was in the Bocage country, we were assaulted by them Tigers. You know what I mean by assaulted, huh? WELL I MEAN ASSAULTED!
Oddball : Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves ?
More on Syria:
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/25/us-carries-out-airstrikes-in-syria-multiple-american-bases-attacked/
Our government is full of geopolitical geniuses.
Sounds like Nephilium has a death wish.
It started with low flow toilets and showerheads, then went through lightbulbs, and is now coming for gas stoves.
https://www.aier.org/article/dcs-dim-witted-lightbulb-moment/
I embrace the power of “and” since the green religion AND government capture work so well together to seize our freedom AND make us all poorer.
They are moving on to air conditioners now.
That should go over well in Arizona.
Here’s a random pointless question.
When does an open attempt to destroy a huge segment of a nation’s economy (German and Italian auto production, for example) cross the line into an overt act of war? When do the Germans and Italians tell the EU to GFY?
These policies become an act of war when the people being harmed by them decide to stop tolerating them.
We are oppressed to the degree we tolerate being oppressed.
Tarran!
Jeez, old home week lately.
Indeed.
Ask the Dutch farmers.
Feinberg, like all luxury mansion sellers in LA, is also contending with the new mansion tax approved by voters in November. The ULA tax, as it’s called, was designed to “fund affordable housing projects and provide resources to tenants at risk of homelessness,” according to the city of Los Angeles website.
The best part- that tax is a percentage of the gross sale price. It doesn’t matter if you made money on the sale, or lost your ass.
They are still rich and therefore deserve whatever they get.
Look, there’s a big pile of money sitting on escrow. What else really matters?
Lest you think the US has a lock on “procedures were followed”.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/canadian-cops-take-down-teenage-girl-in-stormtrooper-costume/
https://globalnews.ca/news/8027933/lethbridge-police-service-stormtrooper-arrest-no-misconduct/
Who is dumber, the cops or the person who called it in?
Yes.
Accurate NH map.
Lol
They are still rich and therefore deserve whatever they get.
They got rich by stealing money from poor people.
Newmarket, NH had some interesting ice cream
Newmarket Police and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are investigating how several people became sick after eating ice cream from the Angelo’s Amore shop at Roots Local Café and Catering.
Several patrons checked themselves into local hospitals after consuming the ice cream around March 17 and 18. Police said the people reported symptoms of severe dizziness, weakness, and “exceptionally” high heart rates.
Police said some of the victims tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a primary component of marijuana that can lead to impairment and other symptoms.
And it wasn’t even Ben & Jerry’s?* Huh.
*Yeah, I know – they sold out to The Man.
When does this go on sale in other states?
None of which include “severe dizziness, weakness, and ‘exceptionally’ high heart rates” so what are trying to imply here?
No way it was munchies.
How is this considered beer since it’s not carbonated?
So today at the local USPSA match, there was a new shooter who looked exactly like Kyle Rittenhouse, except that he was left-handed.
And I squadded with Steve Smith.
Fun match. I had a few missteps, but overall shot fairly well. I blazed through the classifier like a coked-out lunatic, but still managed an ~80% run, which might move me up a point or two.
Hold up. SNL did something funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYNFqmu2toI
It’s not THAT funny, but having visited a Waffle House in Cadiz, Ky once around 1 am….can confirm.
I intended to get some writing done today, but I ended up straightening the entire garage, and now I am having this excellent scotch Manhattan.
This Batch and Bottle premixed Glenfidditch Scotch Manhattan is good. I pay $4.99 for a single “perfect Manhattan.” This bottle is $8.99 for at least 4.