Thankfully this is not your junior puppy dog journo's predictably- lame effort at drooling over their first Eisbock, getting all messed up and then spewing incomprehensible dribble, but is a reasonably serious review of the big players in the boutique strong beer market with a lot of interesting text, historical and social context plus some interviews, so I doubt it is all just lifted from a press release.
There's Schorschbräu Schorschbock and Brewdog’s Tactical Nuclear Penguin plus a counter in Revelation Cat's Freeze The Penguin and Brewdog's counter- counter Sink the Bismark etc, so some of the major players are represented, even more get a mention. There's quite a bit on product development and philosophy and insight into the fierce competition to take out the 'world's strongest beer' mantle.
One question that I wonder about, is with all the handling that goes into Eisbocks and Eis-whatevers, doesn't that just oxidise it pretty fiercely? Or maybe they madly purge all the equipment with CO2 I wonder, or even something more noble and exotic, just to drive the cost up even more.“To create the 43% beer, I had to filter around 15 times”, said Tscheuschner.
Me? I'm not really that interested, I don't often drink the strong stuff as I often struggle to stay upright and intelligible on even the usual full strength beer, let alone wickedly strong stuff. As an aside, that's why much of the 9% BIABrewer Ball- Roller Stout is now in stubbies- because I am just a bit of a fairy when it comes to the extra- strong stuff, I actually enjoy waking up after a night on the tiles with my mouth not tasting like the bottom of a birdcage and a slightly upset tummy, nor blinding pain threatening to cleave my brain's hemispheres apart either...
BTW, perhaps I should've posted this in the your last brew thread- reckon if some of this fire water doesn't kill you, then you'll wish it did!
