Even If I Won Tonight's Euomillions.....

[Ken4155]

... i wouldn't pay anywhere near this sum for a pint of ale.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/other/london-pub-sells-beer-for-80-a-pint/ar-AAYFkLx?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=0ba5109626e64600a3b8022441cc8053

[Ken4155]

Though i suppose the publicity garnered by the article will do the pub no harm.

[choux]

xx

[rowanwitch]

Sink the Bismarck is around £95 per pint but at 41% abv you can usually only buy it in shots although a few specialist shops sell it in 375 ml bottles.
Tactical Nuclear penguin is £73 for 375 ml Tried it at Birmingham beer festival some years ago Sunny Dave had a sip I think it was too scary for him

[rowanwitch]

Brewdog has a collaboration called strength in Numbers at 57.5 abv I would love to try it.

[Vagus]

Crikey Rowan, that’s even higher than BrewDogs Lone Wolf Gunpowder Gin which is 57, literally blows your socks off!!! It actually tastes lovely too.

[rowanwitch]

Brewdog really push the boundaries, I want them to do some ciders at those levels, McFluff would be up for a try at those I am sure. I've seen her at the Birmingham beer fest working her way through the Perry and cider list!

[Buenchico]

I can't work out (because I'm too lazy to google it) how brewers create beers of the strengths mentioned above. Yeast starts to die off at around 14% ABV, meaning that it's theoretically impossible to brew beers very much stronger than that. (A few barley wines get up to 16% ABV but that usually around the limit).

One of my favourite pubs in London (Cask Bar & Kitchen, Pimlico) sometimes sells bottled beers at or around the same sort of price as the one mentioned in Ken's link. At the moment though their most expensive beer only costs a comparatively modest £60 for a 650ml bottle of a US-brewed imperial stout, at 10% ABV.

[rowanwitch]

It's a technique involving freezing, effectively creating a beer "spirit". Try brewdogs website they have a lot more info. TNP tastes a bit like beer and a bit like malt and goes very well with fruit cake.

[rowanwitch]

Chris if you like imperial stouts a few brilliant ones are Tsarina Ezra by De Molen, and both Baltic Trader, and Ripper by Greenjack. Dave would have voted for Trader, I was a definite fan of Tsarina.