Search And Destroy: Super Strength Beers And Ciders

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Well, why not?

― Sam, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Viva White Lightning Viva!

― Sam, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thankyou Sam. Clarity of thread posting.

The answer here is obviously PIRAAT.

― Tom, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm, St Ides?

― Samantha, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Nigerian Guinness and a 7 or so % draft bitter (v.dark and nutty) that Marstons (used?) to do.

Destroy: All super-strength tinned lager.

― Nick, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

search:carlsberg Elephant, delerium tremens (in a lovely bottle featuring pink elephants) and the daddy of them all, roger and out that used to bbe sold in the Rat and Parrot in Sheffield before it got bbought and re-fitted.

― chris, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Owd Roger, well in excess of 7% IIRC. We had it on tap down our college bar for a month or so. It were a great month that. Other choice tipples for the hardcore beer drinker include: Optimus Brune (10%) and Dragon Stout (7.5%).

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

judging by my typing you would be forgiven for thinking that I had actually drunk some right now

― chris, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Old Nick/Samuel Smith's nut brown ale/ Chimay

-and somebody up there drinks Lone Star, not St Ides, Ouch. you wanna go there, how about Mickey's big mouth?

― Hank, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DAmn you Miller Lite! You ruined my mairriage! And my golf ability!

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The old lady, who chaperoned us in San Francisco on monday, said she used to drink lab alcohol. "I used to hit the ceiling!"

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A serious boozehound of my aquaintance swears by a vile white cider called Turbo. It comes in a bomb-shaped 2 litre plastic bottle and delivers pretty much the best high alcohol content for yr pennies. V. popular with tramps, too.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mike, how strong is Miller Lite in America? Cause over here it's piss weak. Although it had to be renamed 'Miller Pilsner' in case people thought it was *really* low alcohol.

― Nick, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Carlsberg Special Brew. And Enoch's Hammer.

― Kodanshi, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

blue ocean, white lightening style 8% cider (yet to attract the right crowd, in a glass bottle, mmm, classy) that we once came up with the perfect advertising slogan for: "softens the blow of being homeless"

― carsmilesteve, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I imagine this includes MALT LIQUOR.

search: St. Ides, Colt 45

destroy: "Steel" (whatever that "high-gravity beer" thing is called), Crazy Horse (NONONONONONONONONO it will turn on you WICKEDLY)

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fin Du Monde & Beezlbub, silly strong malts from Quebec. Rochect 8 I think it was called, tasted like chocolate. Had something about Trappist monks too.

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was out in Nova Scotia last month, I brought back a bottle of the legendarily strong cider called "Golden Glow" for my brother. Golden Glow is fifteen percent ac/vol. Perhaps not coincidentally, I haven't heard from him since.

― Kim, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably about the third thread I've mentioned this on but..

Duvel. Belgian. 8.5%. Tastes lovely.

Do you have a stutter Chris?

― Ally C, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Golden Glow from the Valley? As in apple cider? Could always find you some blueberry crude, I mean cider in Oxford that would be about the same.

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fin Du Monde is pretty strong stuff...it's 'triple brewed'--whatever that means, and tastes/feels even more like motor oil than Guinness.

― turner, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ally c is a cheeky boy. the roger and out mentioned above had a percentage of about 12 and used to be served in third of a pint glasses, it was like treacle and you used to get a certificate after doing the full pint, so long as you could walk the white line from your table to the bar!

― chris, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A whole pint at 12% is only equivalent to about 2/3 of a bottle of wine, so it's not that much booze really. Well, not if you're one of them neo-jazz age winos that Mark S is always talking about.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that's true but if drunk at the rate of a normal pint it seems to knock yer socks off?? It's the thickness of it, I reckon it clogs the synapses with it's beer goo.

― chris, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick, is it Marston's Pedigree?

― Peter Miller, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Marston's may have made owd Roger. I could be wrong though

― chris, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris wins! Miller goes to the back of the class - Pedigree is nice but no ABV monster.

― Nick, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, my post above was supposed to in reply to Nick's but some cheeky bugger got there before me.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would like to ask if there are any GURLS on this board with similiar almost trainspotting knowledge of beer percentages. I know that WODKA is 37.5%... or hang on, is that boiling point in farenheit, or body temperature... room temperature? Booze? Eh?

What percentage is Starmopeoepskdhsomethingramen? The beer that they have at the Garage. I had TWO PINTS of that and some sneeked in vodka ho ho and managed to feel quite blurry. Is that very boozy? I admit I hadn't eaten much all day if I had eaten at all...

(I didn't know how to pronounce that booze at the bar so I just mumbled at the bar staff. They knew what I wanted. INSIGHT or WHAT?!)

― Sarah, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Those 'in the know' just call it 'Star' Sarah. It's not especially strong.

Richie T - what are you on about? Your post above made perfect sense in reponse to Chris's and none in reponse to mine (which was miles upthread anyway)

― Nick, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bugger. I meant my first post in this thread, the one where I mentioned Owd Roger, not the second. I appear to have left my brain in neutral this morning.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yes - I see. My memory of Owd Roger may be playing me false, but I would love a pint of it now. I used to drink it in the Whitworth pub, Manchester (former haunt of Brady and Hindley - nice!). In fact, lately, I've been wanting to be in a pub at this kind of hour quite a lot. People should go to the pub at 11 in the morning more.

― Nick, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Owd roger does terrible things to your digestive system iirc. The best pint of it I remember was in the Devonshire arms at Beeley, a gorgeous little country pub just down the road from Chatsworth house.

― chris, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine.

― Colin Meeder, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Check it out!

http://www.shamburg.com/marstons.html

Pedigree may not be strong enough for guys like us, but "if you get drunk on Pedigree, you stay drunk," according to my uncle Pete. I know what he means. Staropramen is for puffs.

― Peter Miller, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Strength in this game is not the only consideration. How fast it enters the bloodstream is much more important. The idea percentage for fast absorbtion is around about 4.5% - 5% - beyond that and the fact that alcohol is a poison is less easily masked by the rest of the liquid. Equally why bitter, stouts and (scrumpy) cider make you pissed quicker - as the body accepting the high food value of such drinks will also accept more alcohol quickly.

Spirits are very strong but are alcoholically absorbed differently (a large proportion is actually in gaseous form via the lungs!). This may well explain why different people are affected by different drinks in different ways.

― Pete, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ah-ha, *that's* why fine malt whisky makes me pissed! :)

in the pub i used to work in we served this cider called Merrydown which was about 6-7%, i think. many a fight in the Rose and Crown was caused by excessive Merrydown.

and that rhymes!

― katie, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

People 'who are cunts' call it 'Star', Sarah.

And where in holy hell did Miller come from?

― Ally C, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never had alcoholic cider but I really love the idea. How rustic.

― Maria, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah, comin through with my shaolin crew / two cent for a case, gimme st. ides brew / in the midst of broken bottles and crushed up cans / methtical's in a jam on how dry i am with st. ides in my system / crack another, im blitzed, let's go hit the next one / hang it over, the object is to stay sober / lay on the sofa, better yet, dial my chauffeur who's the wallabee kid, stressed out, could never be son / ricochet daily, hit the deli for a cold one / naturally blessed, yes, my rap is like a laser beam / that blow between the bushes, st. ides and i, the king of teams crack the bottle of the st. ides, sippin' to those / who don't realize that drinkin ain't only to be drunk / you can't drive, keep my peoples alive / and if the saint don't know you from a can of paint it was hot, on the spot, so i jetted at the block / and i asked for st. ides, i could tell by the dot / on the back he rebuilt it, not that charcoal filtered / ice cold bottle tilted, to my cup he spilt it

ahhhh! st. ides! mmmm....

― ethan, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

I'm drinking Stoudt's Triple right now and the alc content isn't listed but I'm guessing it's gotta be at least 9%. I take 2-3 normal beers to even feel a buzz, but I'm only on my second and this is knocking me on my ass. Honestly I feel like this is what beer should do. When I drink regular beer I feel like I'm ingesting way too much liquid in order to get a buzz.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

I used to drink Strongbow White which was something like 9-10%? But it tasted like it had lighter fluid mixed in. Blergh!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.unibroue.com/images/terrible-grbouteille.gif

10.5%
I haven't tried it, but the Fin du Monde mentioned earlier is pretty painful and it's at 9%. I call it wine-beer and don't drink it on purpose.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

Gulden Drak at 10.5%. Very drinkable for such a high alcohol. I also like the Delerium Tremens mentioned above (kind of fruity, but in a good way), and Maredsous triple.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

I had a twelve percent Russian stout once (I think the Russians do a lot of these). Rather nice, although it took me about two hours to drink it, tasting like a cross between Marmite, Guiness and vodka.

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

tasting like a cross between Marmite, Guiness and vodka uuuuurrrrrgh!

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Was it Dogfish Head who used to do (perhaps still do) that 21% stout? They had it for £6.99/bottle in our Safeway. Cough medicine, basically.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yeah -

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dogfish.com/brewings/Limited_Edition_Beers/World_Wide_Stout/17/index.htm is what I meant...

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

wow no love for tennents super?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Don't be ridiculous Ken.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

because everybody loves it?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Because nobody can remember what it tastes like.

Although by rights that should apply to all of the above.

― Robocock (noodle vague), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Do Red Stripe still make Crucial Brew? That was magnificent.

― Robocock (noodle vague), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

tasting like a cross between Marmite, Guiness and vodka uuuuurrrrrgh!

Crossing the line between food and drink! Don't knock it till you've tried it.*

*Applies to everything bar morris dancing or incest as always...

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

"Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine."

i had 4 or 5 of these about a month ago and all i can say is: oof! never again. i'm getting too old.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

Is Old Chub the least appealing beer name ever? I think so.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://beerimport.com/images/beer/heveliusclassic.jpg

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hevelius Classic 6.8% 13.5° Pale lager - Spezial.. From the now closed Hevelius brewery in Gdansk.
Hop aroma; bitter taste with hop and butter aromas; very bitter finish with wood and hop aromas. A beautifully bitter beer.
8
Hevelius Kapper 8.1% 20° Amber bock. Pasteurised. From the now closed Hevelius brewery in Gdansk.
Flowery aroma; sweet taste with fruit, apple and wood aromas; very bitter finish with hop and caramel aromas. An excellent bittersweet beer. A very good example of an amber bock beer, though it doesn't call itself that.

"now closed Hevelius brewery"
!! :( ! :((

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

Jeez, where do I start on this topic?

-Everything from Unibroue except their Ephmere. Its all between 8.5-11%, and its all rich and tasty.

-Victory's V-12. Friggen great stuff.

-Brookyln's Monster Ale (Barleywine), which actually tastes better if you leave it in the fridge for a good long time.

-Sam Adams Triplebock (14.5%), which is meant to be drunk warm and in shot glasses; tastes like coffee flavored syrup, kinda. Really sweet and warming.

-EKU28 (11.5%), the king of eisbocks.

-Steel Reserve High Gravity & Hurricane, (each around 9%), the kings of cheap ass, bum favored malt liquors.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

Dogfish Head's Raison D'Etre is one of my favorite beers. 9% and bottle conditioned and complex and lovely.

― stewart downes (sdownes), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

Actually it's only 8%, apparently.

― stewart downes (sdownes), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

i like drinking elephant beer, because it puts you on your ear

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

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