German brews mega strong beer

[joeSoap]

You gotta love this (http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-13434086,00.html)

[Drumcondra Red]

Bet it would give you a bitch of a headache though :D

[anto eile]

"The current record for the strongest brew is held by American firm the Boston Beer Company.

Samuel Adams Utopias is 25% alcohol and costs around £56 for a 24oz bottle."

thats about E77 for about 600ml?expensive night out

[pineapple stu]

24 fl oz is 1.2 pints. However, as it's six times the strength, you're looking at 7 pints at once! :eek: Plus less water to absorb the alcohol. I think one of those and you'd be gone.

[noby]

As Billy Connolly might say:
We'll have two pints of that so!

I'm sure there's someone in the US frantically trying to brew a 26% beer as we speak.

[superfrank]

I don't see how it could be so much worse. I mean it's still weaker then whiskey and vodka??

[Drumcondra Red]

I don't see how it could be so much worse. I mean it's still weaker then whiskey and vodka??

How many pints of each could you manage???

[pete]

8% Belgium Beer is nasty enough so i'd be surprised if 25% beer was even drinkable - i wonder if nasty taste...

:eek:

[joeSoap]

I can't see it being drinkable to be honest, and can't for the life of me understand why anybody would want to drink something thats going to K.O. them so suddenly, and have the potential to actually kill you. :eek:

[Wiseguy]

I drank a litre of some 12% german beer when i was in Rome.The waiter started to laugh at me when he brought it to the table and now i know why.I was half banjoed after it.It was lovely to drink and it gave the desired effect all for €6 a litre.A bargain in my book.
I also drank a cup of home made brew before and it felt like i had drank about 6 or 7 pints.Real potent stuff.

[noby]

8% Belgium Beer is nasty enough


I'm sure this 25% stuff is tack, but to say all strong Belgian beer is nasty is a broad generalisation

Try a bottle of Duvel. It's 8.5%, and although you feel a bit of warmth from the alcohol, it's very tasty, and very drinkable.

There are plenty of good beers in the 6-9% range (without going near muck like 'super'). I'm sure there are some fine barley wines aswell.

[Aberdonian Stu]

There's a French beer around the 12 or 13% mark in the Porter house. Quite potent stuff.

[pete]

I'm sure this 25% stuff is tack, but to say all strong Belgian beer is nasty is a broad generalisation


I'm not saying its not drinkable just wouldn't want to drink at the pace of regular beer or you be on the floor very quickely. By that reasoning can only imagine what 25% will do...

[superfrank]

How many pints of each could you manage???
I don't know. I've never gone down that road. I can drink about 10 bottles and still not be ridiculously drunk.

[Drumcondra Red]

Presumably you're talking about beer and not whiskey or vodaka???

[joeSoap]

Try a bottle of Duvel. It's 8.5%, and although you feel a bit of warmth from the alcohol, it's very tasty, and very drinkable.
True...pure quality :cool:

[superfrank]

Presumably you're talking about beer and not whiskey or vodaka???
Well obviously. I don't know anybody that could drink that much vodka or whiskey.

[Green Tribe]

I don't know. I've never gone down that road. I can drink about 10 bottles and still not be ridiculously drunk.

jesus you started young frankie! :eek: :D

[Poor Student]

I don't know. I've never gone down that road. I can drink about 10 bottles and still not be ridiculously drunk.

Didn't you have a problem with the lads drinking in the Carlisle last week? I'd have sworn you were teetotalist by the way you were going on. :eek:

[Green Tribe]

Didn't you have a problem with the lads drinking in the Carlisle last week? I'd have sworn you were teetotalist by the way you were going on. :eek:

tell us more.... :D

[Poor Student]

tell us more.... :D

Nothing really, he was just giving out quite sternly about some of our supporters drinking in his ground and I imagined him to be some puritanist. :p

[Green Tribe]

Nothing really, he was just giving out quite sternly about some of our supporters drinking in his ground and I imagined him to be some puritanist. :p

moderator gone to his head! :D ;) He'll turn into dahamsta next! :D ;)

Oo-er!

[noby]

I'm not saying its not drinkable just wouldn't want to drink at the pace of regular beer or you be on the floor very quickely. By that reasoning can only imagine what 25% will do...


Oops. I thought you were talking about taste, not strength.