Alcohol content has little to do with a beer’s quality, but hey, just as some guys need red convertibles to compensate for their, um, inadequacies, some brewers need a ridiculously large ABV in their beers. The latest entrant into this silliest of arms races is the Dutch brewery Brouwerij en Distilleerderij, makers of Obilix, a 45-ABV beer that promises to taste like… alcohol. How could it not?Here is the company's Dutch website as rendered by Google's translation engines..... the company is basically a distillery that uses beer as a base rather than just malt, and produces a hopped beer whisky (what you might have seen as "beer schnapps"), a juniper-infused whisky (gin), and this beer called Obilix......
The funny part?
If you go to the "pricelist" page (prices in euros, so thus far their stuff at >$20 a 500-ml bottle is coming off as more affordable than the $65 a 330-ml bottle BrewDog was asking for mail-order Tactical Nuclear Penguin and Sink the Bismarck), Google mistranslates "strongest beer in the world" as "worst beer in the world"....................
2 comments:
2 observations
1) Very few people have talked about what these ulta high ABV beers taste like. Just wondering on my part.
2) I wonder if they named it after the character in the Astrix comics. If so I might just try to get one just for the humor value alone.
I'll be happy to tell you all about what they taste like as soon as I TASTE one. Meanwhile, I've left plenty of tasting notes on DuClaw Colossus, and BrewDog Tokyo on draft.....
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