Reply to: How do you brew beer to 41%?

[BoredBloke]

My question was going to be "Why......."

Because to do it with heat like they do for whiskey needs a license but to do it with cold does not

[EternalOptimist]

I picked a hell of a week to give up drinking...


name that film

[Moscow Mule]

These beers ALWAYS taste tulipe and make you puke

Apparently, you're supposed to share the bottle around with your mates - one shot each...

[Drewster]

Why go to all the trouble to make something tulip.... when there are plenty of drinkable things already.....

I always laugh at the numpties at Beer Fests.... "Gimme a Pint of Baz's Bonce Blower" (substitute any undrinkable "Strongest Beer in the World")

These beers ALWAYS taste tulipe and make you puke

[Moscow Mule]

My question was going to be "Why......."

Why not? It gets one over on the Germans after all...

I might buy some for the next stag do I go on...

[Drewster]

My question was going to be "Why......."

[TykeMerc]

Freezing is just another form of distillation process, just not using evaporation and condensation, I doubt there's a yeast that can survive at anything like 30% alcohol so 40+% brewed wouldn't be possible.
I suppose with some genetic engineering it might be possible, but alcohol is a very effective poison so I doubt it.

Fortified drinks are typically brewed or wine fermented then a strong spirit is added in suitable proportion. Port for instance is a strong red wine with brandy added.

[Moscow Mule]

Yep. The longer you leave it in the freezer the stronger it gets.

Need a bigger freezer .

[DaveB]

Is that how they make those "Ice" beers that are popular in yankee land?

Yep. The longer you leave it in the freezer the stronger it gets.

[Moscow Mule]

Not strictly brewed as such, they store it in a cold store for a few weeks and as the water content freezes out they draw of the remaining liquid giving a beer with a much higher alchohol content but without changing the nature of the brew by heating it as you would if you were making whiskey.

Is that how they make those "Ice" beers that are popular in yankee land?

[DaveB]

I they have really brewed it, they must have bred a new kind of yeast. I thought yeast dies at around 20%?

Not strictly brewed as such, they store it in a cold store for a few weeks and as the water content freezes out they draw of the remaining liquid giving a beer with a much higher alchohol content but without changing the nature of the brew by heating it as you would if you were making whiskey.

[Moscow Mule]

I liked it so much, I bought the company...


http://www.equityforpunks.com/

[OwlHoot]

I wonder what it tastes like.

At £40 a bottle, I'll just never know.

Molasses I imagine.

What I can hardly begin to imagine is the thumping skull-shattering hangover you'd have the next morning after drinking a pint of the syrupy gloop.

[doodab]

I believe you freeze it and remove the ice.

[Moscow Mule]

I they have really brewed it, they must have bred a new kind of yeast. I thought yeast dies at around 20%?

Can you "fortify" beer like you fortify wine?