Tactical Nuclear Penguin Is Go!
OK, I've mentioned the possibility of a beer of this name from BrewDog a couple of times, most recently about a month ago when I drunkenly questioned their head honcho at the share launch in London. He was being cagey (or wary of drunk people) but my best bet was that it existed and it was going to be an "ice beer" (frozen to get the alcohol content up). After some more penguin related twitter posts recently we have this on their website:
The World's Strongest Beer: Tactical Nuclear Penguin
The Antarctic name inducing schizophrenia of this uber-imperial stout originates from the amount of time it spent exposed to extreme cold. This beer began life as a 10% imperial stout 18 months ago. The beer was aged for 8 months in an Isle of Arran whisky cask and 8 months in an Islay cask making it our first double cask aged beer. After an intense 16 month, the final stages took a ground breaking approach by storing the beer at -20 degrees for three weeks to get it to 32%.
For the big chill the beer was put into containers and transported to the cold store of a local ice cream factory where it endured 21 days at penguin temperatures. Alcohol freezes at a lower temperature than water. As the beer got colder BrewDog Chief Engineer, Steven Sutherland decanted the beer periodically, only ice was left in the container, creating more intensity of flavours and a stronger concentration of alcohol for the next phase of freezing. The process was repeated until it reached 32%.
Full story here, including a video of them making it, whilst dressed as penguins. Obviously.
So, a 32% beer. That Tokyo* is looking pretty weak now.
The downside? Thirty quid for a small bottle. Mind you, as a shareholder I could twenty per cent off. Twenty four quid? Bargain. Possibly.
Come on, how can you resist?
Oddly, if you google "tactical nuclear penguin" the first hit is currently my LiveJournal. Bet that doesn't stay there long.
I had a half of the BrewDog/Mikkeller barley wine, Devine Rebel, in The Rake last night and bloody good it was too. I had it on draught back in about May/June and it was aged then, so this one's had about another six months. The flavours had really developed nicely. Well worth checking out.
The World's Strongest Beer: Tactical Nuclear Penguin
The Antarctic name inducing schizophrenia of this uber-imperial stout originates from the amount of time it spent exposed to extreme cold. This beer began life as a 10% imperial stout 18 months ago. The beer was aged for 8 months in an Isle of Arran whisky cask and 8 months in an Islay cask making it our first double cask aged beer. After an intense 16 month, the final stages took a ground breaking approach by storing the beer at -20 degrees for three weeks to get it to 32%.
For the big chill the beer was put into containers and transported to the cold store of a local ice cream factory where it endured 21 days at penguin temperatures. Alcohol freezes at a lower temperature than water. As the beer got colder BrewDog Chief Engineer, Steven Sutherland decanted the beer periodically, only ice was left in the container, creating more intensity of flavours and a stronger concentration of alcohol for the next phase of freezing. The process was repeated until it reached 32%.
Full story here, including a video of them making it, whilst dressed as penguins. Obviously.
So, a 32% beer. That Tokyo* is looking pretty weak now.
The downside? Thirty quid for a small bottle. Mind you, as a shareholder I could twenty per cent off. Twenty four quid? Bargain. Possibly.
Come on, how can you resist?
Oddly, if you google "tactical nuclear penguin" the first hit is currently my LiveJournal. Bet that doesn't stay there long.
I had a half of the BrewDog/Mikkeller barley wine, Devine Rebel, in The Rake last night and bloody good it was too. I had it on draught back in about May/June and it was aged then, so this one's had about another six months. The flavours had really developed nicely. Well worth checking out.