World's Strongest Beer: how we got to 57.8%

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This week we try the world's strongest beer, a collaboration between two breweries who have been duking it out for the title since 2009 - BrewDog and Schorschbrau. Join us as we try this massive 57.8% beer, and get the story behind it from none other than BrewDog cofounder Martin Dickie.
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@GlaciusDreams 3 жыл бұрын

"I cUt DoWn To OnE PiNt a DaY!!!!"

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

wHat Do yOu MeAN tHeN whY Am I oN tHe flOOr?

@Tazza81 3 жыл бұрын

@@petecontos4803 jolly good for you sir. No one gives a rats arse so jog on

@premium7182 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@ThisWontEndWell 3 жыл бұрын

I only had half a shandy of this would be enough to put you over the limit.

@andysmom117 3 жыл бұрын

"I only had one pint, officer."

@waldoppen 3 жыл бұрын

"What seems to be the officer, problem?"

@RM-lm9sl 3 жыл бұрын

Beer actually OPENED at 11:45 in the video.

@ClarfB 3 жыл бұрын

people like you are the true heroes 🙌🙌

@jonathondefina4452 3 жыл бұрын

Not the heroes we deserve, but the one we need!

@davidarthurkingsworth9683 3 жыл бұрын

Clara 😂 XD 😂

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Our apologies for waffling.

@RM-lm9sl 3 жыл бұрын

The Craft Beer Channel 🤣 No worries, just a PSA. You guys rock!

@squees7215 3 жыл бұрын

I think perhaps the most overlooked thing of the fun 'arms race' was the creation of nanny state in response to the tabloid sensationlisation of the strong beer they were making. Although the original was 1.1%, I feel the later edition 0.5% really set the standard for what you could achieve with non alcoholic beer - and it was originally inspired by a response to their strongest!

@pm2055 3 жыл бұрын

love how they went from a beer called sink the bismark to a collab. great story

@rayd.295 3 жыл бұрын

Very cool. Had Sink the Bismark in one of the Brew Dog Pubs when I was in Scotland back in 2015. Thought that was strong enough. Would love to try this stuff.

@jayhudgins4565 3 жыл бұрын

Actually Strongest Gin is Uncut Navy strength Gin at wopping 76% ABV, Whiskey's all over (Irish, Scotch, Bourbon, Japanese, & Canadian) can be sold as cask strength which ranges from 51-60+ % ABV.

@Quintinohthree 3 жыл бұрын

Same distillery has already come out with an Ultra Uncut Gin at 82,5% as another distillery one-upped them with a 77% gin. Strongest whisky is Bruichladdich X4+3 at 63.5% though they've also sold it unaged at 92%. Rum is the real home of accessible high proofs though, the 60% or so they mention is really nothing special. Wray and Nephew white overproof at 63%, Plantation OFTD at 69%, numerous 151 rums at 75,5%, plenty above that with Mariënburg and River Antoine Royale Grenadian Rum at 90% topping the list, all pretty easy to get your hands on.

@owendistefano6715 2 жыл бұрын

@@Quintinohthree 63.5% is not the strongest whiskey Stagg Jr has multiple releases over 65%

@Quintinohthree 2 жыл бұрын

@@owendistefano6715 Notice I've mentioned they've done special unaged releases at 92%.

@DanteJoseCuervo 3 жыл бұрын

I've got fish sauce, soy sauce, plenty of different sugars, and some everclear. Sounds like I can make this for much cheaper.

@Ricksteady8 3 жыл бұрын

More than likely would taste better too. Most craft beer tastes like it was made with the pith from grapefruit, rotten soy sauce and a hand-full of wood chips from a house fire with yeast they got by sticking a finger up their butt and stirring the wort with said finger.

@ThomasBomb45 3 жыл бұрын

@@Ricksteady8 sounds like a good way to make something useful out of materials that would otherwise be considered waste!

@karvast5726 3 жыл бұрын

@@Ricksteady8 that yeast part made me nearly vomit

@brian6391 2 жыл бұрын

@@Ricksteady8 I bet you eat your own boogers.

@carlhansen9512 Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see you guys "rehydrate" this beer with some carbonated water to see what it was like. I've read that some macro-beer producers freeze distill their beer for transportation, then rehydrate at the destination for packaging.

@TheCraftBeerChannel Жыл бұрын

I doubt it is distillation - more likely extract production so they cook it right down...

@carlhansen9512 Жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel alcohol will boil off before water, that's why they use freeze distillation/concentration.

@mikemarron3333 3 жыл бұрын

13:28 took a sip. No words needed

@TheJoke97 3 жыл бұрын

On the % remark too, I'm an employee at BrewDog - and I can tell ya', our Gunpowder gin sits at 57% too, so Gin most certainly gets that high!

@RaymondPeter 3 жыл бұрын

I was going to point out how most whiskey drinkers eventually laugh at anything below 100 proof and often want barrel or cask strength (when we can afford it)

@Knasen3 3 жыл бұрын

A lot of cask strength whisky is around the 60 % mark as well.

@ultrademigod 3 жыл бұрын

@@RaymondPeter You halve the proof to get the percentage, so 100 proof would be 50% alcohol.

@RaymondPeter 3 жыл бұрын

@@ultrademigod I am aware of that. My point is 50% ABV is considered the lowest bar of entry for serious whiskey drinkers.

@tysmith9309 3 жыл бұрын

@@RaymondPeter what constitutes a serious drinker cuz those are amazingly rare people to be able to find a 110-120 proof whiskey on a regular basis

@shinjincai 3 жыл бұрын

That's an interesting way to spell liquor

@wyattalexander4041 3 жыл бұрын

That intro was perfect lol 😭😂

@longleaf1217 3 жыл бұрын

it had me in stitches. not gonna lie.

@MsJavaWolf 3 жыл бұрын

Those corks are actually still somewhat popular in Germany, just without the wax seal. They are pretty neat really, because when you walk around with the beer you can easily close it again.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Great for reusing in homebrew too!

@brittakriep2938 2 жыл бұрын

When in early 70s the ,Wire' closed german beer bottles had been mostly replaced by modern type bottles, my father heared in radio a radio man speaking with a brewery owner. The radioman said to brewery owner: But you must drink whole beer of new bottles, you no more can close it. The brewery owner answered: We don' t earn money with clients, needing three days for drinking a beer bottle.

@DaveTex2375 2 жыл бұрын

No need to spill the beer and commit alcohol abuse.

@oscarosullivan4513 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel Potín is often stronger

@thetommyandbobbyshow 2 жыл бұрын

Wicked!!!! We gotta get you guys and the worlds strongest beer on our show for season 2!!! Cheers!!

@MajesticSkywhale 3 жыл бұрын

Just to add to your guys knowledge, cask strength apple brandy and absinthe are two other things I have in my home bar over 55%, both over 60 actually

@Mark-wx6xr 2 жыл бұрын

I had Roger & Out in The Frog & Parrot in Sheffield (1986) believed to be the world's strongest beer at the time (21% brewed on the premises) and that was strong enough (sold in third of a pint and a certificate for each third drunk). Smiles Brewery I think then surpassed this but now, this is insane.

@zw5509 3 жыл бұрын

Just like making Apple Jack! Not really a beer but a freeze distillate like Brandy distilled with heat from wine. All the Beer parts are left behind and only the Methanol and ethanol is distilled. Plus whatever else is in there with a low freezing point. Going to be a hangover maker!

@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I immediately thought of Applejack…which leaves a nasty hangover. Anyone have a firsthand report on the day after with this beer??

@uncleacid6973 2 жыл бұрын

@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 I made a bunch of it and overall escaped without a hangover.

@willbrorsen493 2 жыл бұрын

Try lairds apple brandy if your in the states, make sure it’s 100% apple brandy the good stuff. Never had a hangover from it

@JakeOBeer 3 жыл бұрын

This was much better than I expected it to be! In the video on my channel I said it was like someone mixed Whiskey with Madeira Wine... and maybe a touch of hand sanitiser

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty much. More soy vibes than that though we thought

@robinsharkey6658 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel sounds odd. Now, there is a TON of higher proof whisky out there. Look into Independent Bottlers!!

@Davidsbeenhere 3 жыл бұрын

Man I have to try this!

@jeannette1111 3 жыл бұрын

@Davidsbeenhere....Cheers🍻!!

@ZebbMassiv 3 жыл бұрын

You'd have to recarbonate it with a sodastream

@MNNski 2 жыл бұрын

Bit late but Brewmeister's Snake Venom.

@ryandryer3422 3 жыл бұрын

Think it would have been interesting to see how I'd would taste if you added some water to it like people do with some whisky's.

@weedfreer 3 жыл бұрын

I like the look of this...seems nice and thick and dark like a good stout, however, it sounds like it's spiked like an exotic beer. I wonder, have you ever done an episode about barley wines? I know, when I go to beer festivals, when they have them on, there's always one that's by Marston's that sells out in a flash. It's about 9% from memory and tastes like the tastiest McVities hobnob (non-chocolate covered version) you could ever imagine :)

@paulbates1044 3 жыл бұрын

Wow..Brewdog dog just push the boundaries and produce just great beer..luckily for me my nearest bar is 30 miles away i would never get anything done..😊👍🍺 cheers ..!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Haha, they deliver. Along with 2000 small breweries!

@will16320 3 жыл бұрын

What a cool story, less posturing more fermenting!

@knightonwarbeck1969 3 жыл бұрын

My first outing with friends in Belgium. Some pub in Mons, in Le Grand-Place. Beer was served in a large bowl sized glass. Probably a liter. After the second one I couldn't find my legs to walk to the bathroom. They told me the beer was 29%. I believed them. My initiation into Belgian beer. Merci!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

29%!? Would love to know what that was...

@dudestewbrews Жыл бұрын

Holy hell that’s a beer! Jealous you got to try it. I don’t “wan’t” to try it, but I do. lol Bravo to those who contributed to making it!

@Dcalzaretta 3 жыл бұрын

"Who mommy?" "You mommy."

@KoenJoos 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video, the strongest beer (X-Beer 33) in Czech Republic is 12.6%. Also worth to try.

@jonathanthomsen3111 7 ай бұрын

The strongest beer 🍺 in Denmark 🇩🇰, is The Eisbock 38 beer 🍺 - Frederikshavn Bryghus - 38,03% is actually from Frederikshavn Bryghus, Frederikshavn, Denmark 🇩🇰, by the way dude my friend 😃😃🙂😎😊😁🤜🏻🤛🏻🤘🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🍺🍺🍺🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

@ARSZLB 3 жыл бұрын

that intro definitely made me giggle 😂

@doc8125 3 жыл бұрын

Also 151 rum is also a quite popular thing in cocktails, reaching around 75%, there is also absinthe that can go upwards of 80

@doc8125 3 жыл бұрын

@Poon Slaayer yeah, that shit is actually beyond dangerous LMFAO I never actually drink that shit, just use it for infusions to then water it down/mix it heavily

@josephkordinak1591 3 жыл бұрын

So its Beer Jack. They have been doing it with cider for centuries.

@mrkesu 3 жыл бұрын

Favorite intro.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

BEER GEEKS! PLEASE before you post about this not being the strongest beer in the world, know that the Brewmeister beers were a con and were around 40% ABV. This was tested in a lab by a journalist who questioned their integrity and was correct. Read more here: thebeercast.com/2014/05/brewmeister-lies.html (UPDATE: Brewmeister may now have achieved the strength, but still by adding ethanol which means it is not legally beer.) Please also know that (as far as we are aware) the other claims to the throne, Start the Future and the Mystery of Beer, were also made by spiking with ethanol, so again not legally beer.

@ashtmw 3 жыл бұрын

is Schorschbock also adulterated in this way?

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

@@ashtmw No this beer, and indeed all the beers in this series from both breweries, is made purely through ice distillation.

@brentmills1993 3 жыл бұрын

Ah. Have you guys reviewed Snake Venom yet? That would be interesting

@1218Draco 3 жыл бұрын

Send a bottle or two to Whiskey Vault, boys!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

@@ashtmw No - it is pure ice distillation

@infoscholar5221 3 жыл бұрын

I want to try it!

@Taawuus 3 жыл бұрын

On a leaving party in Liverpool, I got both a "Tactical Nuclear Penguin" and "The Bottle that sank the Bismark". A rather rough night... I remember the taste of the first one...

@jannesvanquaillie9151 3 жыл бұрын

I think I can drink this until the end of my life! XD

@RichHeart89 3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow that's cool

@smashy152 3 жыл бұрын

A standard pour of scotch (a dram) is about 35ml, so just enough in this bottle for a wee dram and it would cost the same as a dram of 30 year old Talisker.

@maxmacdonald4440 3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Extremely overpriced

@HungryHungryShoggoth 3 жыл бұрын

That process of freeze distillation is also known as "jacking". That's where we get the name of spirits like apple jack. My question is, can something still legally be called "beer" if it's been distilled?

@feedbackzaloop 3 жыл бұрын

You can't really call it destillation when there is no boiling, but the main quistion is of course how you define beer. And it is mostly defined on the ingridients. Like, most and some best Belgian beers or American craft wouldn't be legaly registered as beer in Russia. Germany used to be very sceptical as well with their beer purity law. Fun fact: applejack contains some methanol, so be careful with it, kids

@dennisvisser3910 3 жыл бұрын

Real beer is made in the benelux regions, germany and uk. The rest is not realy near the same lvl..... And none of em go above the tens. So anything above 20 is ludacriss and more a licour

@rustyshackelford312 2 жыл бұрын

I keep my beer in a consumer medical grade refrigerator with a glass door. On its lowest setting it is 40- 42 degrees fahrenheit.

@grizzlyadams5410 8 ай бұрын

Whiskey over here in America can be had at around that strength or stronger if you go to the right stores. Total wine tends to have a bunch of barrel proof bourbons, as well as other stores in my area.

@thrawn82 3 жыл бұрын

-80 fridges are used for a lot of medical molecular biology work, preserving extracted DNA and RNA samples.

@santiagokaderian544 3 жыл бұрын

You are very near !!! Nice video....

@TheRealWilliamWhite 3 жыл бұрын

Barrel Proof Whiskey, Navy Strength Gin, Navy Strength Rum, Absinthe are all around 55% or more and most liquors are distilled above that.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Sure... but do they account for most liquors? I shouldn't have said gin never does to be fair though!

@krissymarklewis1793 2 жыл бұрын

I can imagine it would taste like a really strong Brandy, strongest beer I've ever had was 17%,. I think. Can't remember what it was called as it was a good few years back and it got me pretty twisted!

@familiacervecera7195 3 жыл бұрын

Excelente

@erehwon80 3 жыл бұрын

Never had the chance to try Sink The Bismarck!, but I actually quite enjoyed Tactical Nuclear Penguin.

@aramage1975 3 жыл бұрын

Sink the Bismark was horrible! Way too bitter, almost undrinkable. Must have been 1000 IBU or something in the region!

@erehwon80 3 жыл бұрын

@@aramage1975 I found Hop Shot similarly hard to drink. If you get the chance to try TNP, give it a go.

@alexjav21 3 жыл бұрын

Is it safe to ice distill to that high a percent? can you remove methanol with the ice?

@ChristnThms 3 жыл бұрын

This does not remove the methanol or acetone. As such, the yeast used is very important, as some yeast produce more or less of these compounds than others. There will always be trace amounts though, and freeze distilling does concentrate them. Thus, it will always run the risk of being a headache in a bottle.

@Pengu561 3 жыл бұрын

when the ATF bans home production of moonshine but brewing beer is fully legal

@barrycohen311 3 жыл бұрын

Is it better than Miller Lite???

@j616s 3 жыл бұрын

If it's freeze distilled, is not a beer. It's a spirit. It requires a totally different licence. If it's been aged in a barrel for years, it's whiskey more or less. I've heard of a microbrewery who's been brewing proper beer to the 20+% mark for decades though. They've been selectively breeding the yeast to get there. Can't remember the name of the brewery or beer though.

@j616s 3 жыл бұрын

Checked with a friend. Apparently it was Parish Brewery with Baz's Super Brew at 23%. Apparently when all this freeze distilled stuff started, he dropped out of the strong beer game saying "when they learn to brew, I'll talk to them".

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

@@j616s I agree to some extent - really this is ice distilled beer, its own thing and we shouldn't try to put other names to it. But really it is very different to whisky because the distillation happens AFTER barrel ageing. I'll look up Parish Brewing's efforts but these are very different approaches. Brewdog have made lots of exceptionally strong beers without distillation too.

@j616s 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel Yeh. I came off a bit brash above. Brewdog have a lot of talent on their staff. It really frustrates me when they do something like this where they are calling a product something it just plane isn't for the sake of marketing. It doesn't do their work justice. I'd genuinely be interested to try this. But I really wish they'd call a spade a spade.

@humzilla707 3 жыл бұрын

Sam Adams utopia

@michaelb1761 3 жыл бұрын

They've toned it down in recent years, but Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA was labeled 21+% the first time I had it. True brewing with regular yeast addition as the yeast died at the high alcohol content.

@Audio_Simon 3 жыл бұрын

HEY! You guys did the supermarket brewing with Alex French Guy Cooking, right?

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

That's us! What an adventure that was.

@seankauder9721 3 жыл бұрын

That's not beer. Once a beverage has been distilled or freeze-distillied, it's called liquor.

@bASICMiner 3 жыл бұрын

... u can do a similar thing to hard cider to make it "harder"... :)

@johnp.2267 3 жыл бұрын

Once something has been distilled, is it even a beer anymore? Wouldn't it be a liquor?

@heywardhollis1160 3 жыл бұрын

There's an argument for reclassifying ice beer as malt liquor. I've had non-distilled beers with higher alcohol percentages than most ice beers though. Does the classification reflect upon the alcohol percentage or the process? And if the process, should ice distillation be included? It depends upon your reason for classifying them.

@msamour 3 жыл бұрын

I believe it refers to the process. The best way to understand thi I have found is to refer to laws. I find lawyers, when they want to prevent people from doing something, they must provide a clear definition of what it is you cannot do. I understand politicians vote on laws, but they are actually really designed by legal experts. Why do you think the Massive Patriot Act was designed in less than 4 months...

@Quintinohthree 3 жыл бұрын

@@heywardhollis1160 Any beer over 5% gets classified as malt liquor. It's purely a classification on strength and in no way mutually exclusive with beer.

@higurashianduminekoconnect1702 3 жыл бұрын

Technically beer is labeled beer because of it being made with hops if you think about it so I think it would be still technically beer and it could be technically viewed as liquor to it's more like a liquor beer at that point

@higurashianduminekoconnect1702 3 жыл бұрын

@@Quintinohthree yes it is true by law but logically is it still beer yes some of these classifications really don't make much sense because beer is pretty much just anything on the liquor that's made with hops

@pauln0371 Жыл бұрын

Absinthe is normally between 55 and 65%. Stroh 80 is the strongest thing I've ever drunk. As the name suggests it's 80% abv. The next was Especiale 151 Rum from the Dom Rep. 75.5% abv.

@jonathanthomsen3111 7 ай бұрын

Yes The Rum 🍹 from The Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 is actually very strong my friend, and I know that because I am half Dominican 🇩🇴 and half Danish 🇩🇰, by the way my friend 😎😊😁😃🙂🤜🏻🤛🏻👍🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🍹🍹🍹🍻🍻🍺🍺🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

@jonathanthomsen3111 7 ай бұрын

And The strongest beer 🍺 in Denmark 🇩🇰, is The Eisbock 38 beer 🍺 - Frederikshavn Bryghus - 38,03% is actually from Frederikshavn Bryghus, Frederikshavn, Denmark 🇩🇰, by the way my friend 😃😃🙂😎😁🤜🏻🤛🏻🤘🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🍺🍺🍺🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

@DeathByHumbuckers 3 жыл бұрын

I remember trying tactical nuclear penguin and thought it was genuinely horrible. Sink the Bismarck was delicious though.

@Kazaii64 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, there's Navy Strength Gin which are minimum 57% Great vid guys!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Yikes. The navy must have had some hangovers

@mbpaintballa 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel if you cant fight em hung over, dont fight em at all

@Jamestruin 2 жыл бұрын

I had a rum that I described as tasting like a very reduced beef stock.

@wraggysbeers 3 жыл бұрын

Hm by fermentation methods a beer can only go up to 23% so brewdog and brewmeister both skirt the rules ?

@Quintinohthree 2 жыл бұрын

Nope. Just pushing traditional methods to their limits.

@knexfan100 3 жыл бұрын

Is this stuff discontinued? Trying to find a link to buy this.

@ThisWontEndWell 3 жыл бұрын

So what do you reckon the AVB% would be of a pint of shandy made from this?

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Ha! Well if you go for the 50/50 blend then exactly half!

@jbitt1617 3 жыл бұрын

Laughing at the idea of dunking sushi in it. Now I desperately want to see that happen

@DClairRobinson 3 жыл бұрын

So where do I get one?

@cmccrystalTube 2 жыл бұрын

How do you poor out the first 4 shots with freeze distilation?

@Quintinohthree 2 жыл бұрын

You don't, and you don't have to. You end up with the same alcohol you started with, just in less volume.

@bolo2393 2 жыл бұрын

Should have hit it with a splash or two of filtered water like you would with cask strength whiskey, to really let it open up.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting thought!

@Tan-TanOvalle 3 жыл бұрын

ISO need this beer.

@ZebbMassiv 3 жыл бұрын

At that strength, it cannot officially be called a beer but a malt liquor.

@Quintinohthree 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, the US, where 5% is too strong to be called beer.

@keifereef9673 3 жыл бұрын

Think I’ll stick to a DIPA 😆

@Zordy21 3 жыл бұрын

Yup

@jujuUK68 2 жыл бұрын

I had a bottle of Koskenkorva Finnish vodka at 60%, duty free from Helsinkii airport a few years ago, which remained drinkable. And also an excellent cleaning product. And in terms of Eisbier, Adventinus Eisbier by Schneider Weisse is probably the best beer I have ever had.

@warped_rider Жыл бұрын

Aventinus Eisbock, I haven't seen that stocked in a minute, I miss it...

@muninrob 3 жыл бұрын

For liquor, take your "proof" and divide by 2 to get your percentage.

@ikotmaciek541 3 жыл бұрын

11:50 they open the bottle 😂😂😂

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Really stretching out the tension

@damian-795 3 жыл бұрын

Well in fact , what is strong beer- answer , Whiskey :-) xx

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha fair statement

@lolmock25 3 жыл бұрын

Yea anything over 20% is more like a hard liqure just made of hops 😂

@mosesmakhoana8784 2 жыл бұрын

where can i get this is South africa?

@Tacsmoker 2 жыл бұрын

use the internet for a delivery mate

@havarfjerdingen1695 3 жыл бұрын

How's the head retention.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Ha! None to start with!

@gumboboy5446 3 жыл бұрын

It’s distilled so it’s no longer beer. It’s a cold distilled whiskey.

@emilskriver49 3 жыл бұрын

thank you, was thinking the same :D

@Quintinohthree 3 жыл бұрын

Nobody would call this a whisky let alone a whiskey. It isn't distilled in anything but a legal sense.

@emilskriver49 3 жыл бұрын

@@Quintinohthree wouldn't call it a whiskey either, since it hasn't barrel-aged but beer is a stretch :P

@Quintinohthree 3 жыл бұрын

@@emilskriver49 I don't know, untill it goes through fractional freezing it is certainly still beer and fractional freezing is applied to other beers without putting their legitimacy in question and finally no matter how far fractional freezing is taken none of the things that are distinctive of beer are lost, only water, so how is it not beer? What is the threshold it surpassed where it stopped being beer and why should that be a threshold?

@jkuebbing12358 3 жыл бұрын

@@emilskriver49 it is barrel aged for four years but it's not whiskey

@user-zk4yx4ui1w 3 жыл бұрын

Я бы попробовал))

@qdmc12 3 жыл бұрын

You boys ever try an old fashioned applejack? You're in that territory.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Never heard of it before but seen lots of references in the comments...not sure whether we should track some down.

@qdmc12 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel Same thing but with cider.

@Username18981 3 жыл бұрын

I have plenty of whiskies with a higher abv. Just about all cask strength ones are higher.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Sure but they account for a tiny fraction of whisky sold, which was our (poorly made) point.

@matyusax0 3 жыл бұрын

There’s Tatratea at up-to 72%. A lot of rums go up to 70-80%. There’s also absinth at up-to 90%. So yeah, there are a lot of higher alc. drinks, but you only drink 2-3 of these and you’re done 😬

@hugovandenberg313 3 жыл бұрын

Stroh rum comes in 60% and a whopping 80%

@FullBellyTravels 3 жыл бұрын

Umami, volatile, soy sauce flavored beer?? I’d try it!

@bassickcris9344 3 жыл бұрын

How much was the bottle ?

@Blasserman 3 жыл бұрын

It would be fun to add a few drops to some soda water in a glass to make your own regular beer.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Haha sodastream beer!

@donniedarko979 3 жыл бұрын

I have a Tokyo aging in my fridge. Last one I could find so saving it.

@TheRSChippe 3 жыл бұрын

I have 2 Tokyo aging at home ☺️

@jackwyatt1218 3 жыл бұрын

Wowsa!

@lapinlogic6267 2 жыл бұрын

Brewdog, The result of internet memers creating a beer company. Terrible flavours but funny names and wacky strengths.

@JDhomieG 3 жыл бұрын

Tears and a numb tongue??? As a whiskey drinker, 57.8% abv is just starting to be considered high proof. LOL Nice vid y'all!! Loved hearing about ice distilling.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Haha well I think whisky makers have had a bit more experience in ensuring a smooth experience....

@carlhansen9512 Жыл бұрын

57.8% is 115 proof. Well into "high proof" territory imho

@Anomaly24k 3 жыл бұрын

I want to see papanomaly trying this!

@darrenbakewell1469 3 жыл бұрын

Love brew dog

@michaelwaddy2583 3 жыл бұрын

wait wait wait, I thought Brewmeister held the record with "snake venom" at 67.5% no?

@jamesiles3038 3 жыл бұрын

That beer was a fraud apparently. Spiked with ethanol rather than being brewed/distilled.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Nope they faked it. It was about 45%

@michaelwaddy2583 3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesiles3038 ah I see thanks!

@michaelwaddy2583 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel wow! thats crazy

@jamesiles3038 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelwaddy2583 no worries I had to look it up myself when I saw the Brewdog release

@richthomas7597 3 жыл бұрын

So can someone please tell me if this is going to be an investment if I don't drink mine???

@bilbobaggins7285 2 жыл бұрын

No such thing as ice distillation. It's called fractional freezing or colloquially "jacking". It's a concentrate, not a distillate.

@dataperson7067 2 жыл бұрын

I believe ice distilled can be called jacking as well

@cocktails4u890 3 жыл бұрын

Where can I buy lol I want try

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure at this point, I think it might be sold out!

@sargundhillon2808 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe this is a dumb question - What is the definition of beer? Doesn't (freeze) distillation make it not-beer (or whisky)?

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

DUmb questions are the best questions - they cut right through the nonsense! The definition of beer according to the Oxford English Dictionary is: "an alcoholic drink made from malt with hops added to give it taste." By that definition, this is beer.