Tactical Nuclear Penguin v Old Peculier
BrewDog was previously branded irresponsible for Tokyo by Alcohol Focus Scotland, which complained to The Portman Group. BrewDog themselves also complained, in what was said to be a bid to highlight the best ways to educate people about alcohol.
The brewery had then followed up Tokyo with a low alcohol beer called Nanny State. BrewDog then made headlines last week after it launched an even stronger beer at 32% called Tactical Nuclear Penguin.
Madcap Scottish brewing maestro Brew Dog, has launched the world’s strongest beer to a volley of criticism from health chiefs. The 32% abv brew, called Tactical Nuclear Penguin (great name), takes over the mantle as the world’s strongest beer from German concoction Schorschbraerm which weighs in at a measly 31% abv.
The incredible strength was attained when the beer, which started life as a 10 percent imperial stout, was aged for 16 months in two different whisky casks before being stored in a freezer at a ball-shriveling -20°C for three weeks.
And I thought Old Peculier was strong. Has anyone done a taste comparison?
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OP used to regularly spoil my mates from Manchester who’d travel across the Pennines and see it’s mere existence as a challenge. I was forever picking them up off pub floors after ‘OP Leg’set in (around the 3 pint mark).
Peter – that’s right – it’s a three pint drop and one pub in Bay used to stop serving someone who’d had three – it was usually fairly apparent to all.
I’ve drank Thomas Hardy Ale which was one of the strongest beers at around 13% and that was vile, I shudder to think how revolting those beers will taste
OP is perhaps the finest beer I’ve ever had draught at the beehive near Whitby, all others I’ve had that were stronger ABV just didn’t really taste like true beer. 3 pints was pretty much my limit too, things started to go numb, lips, fingers, knees, mental faculties etc.
Black Sheep (the beer, not the quadruped) lust is come upon me…
Ah, the Beehive, the Bay Hotel. Waves of beery nostalgia sweep over me, remembering watching from The Bay Hotel window as waves crashed up the from the slipway during northerly gales…
Not a fan of high alcohol content beers. Too powerful.
That it way to strong for beer! I thought that wines were getting too strong, but that is ridiculous!
Thomas hardy Ale used to be a favourite tipple. In the early nineties I shared a house in Sheffield with a former submariner and every Friday evening we’d make our way to the Fat Cat, on Kelham Island, where we’d drink pints of draught Marston’s Owd Roger with a Thomas Hardy chaser. After four rounds we were both literally legless. In those days it was brewed by Eldridge Pope, in Dorchester, and it looked and tasted like rum. Like Old Peculiar, a change in ownership has ruined both beers.