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The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel
If you have $765 burning a hole in your pocket, and a penchant for drinking alcohol out of a taxidermied animal, the good folks at BrewDog have just the drink for you. Their latest creation, called The End of History, is a 110 proof beer that comes packaged in a variety of small stuffed animals.
So if you drink too much of this do you need to have a few cups of that coffee that can only be extracted after it's been crapped out by monkeys?
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I just have to say, my vote for best article title ever. Felt like I was in some sort of slashdot dream seeing that pop up on the ol' RSS.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww
can i buy it without the squirrel?
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Serious beer drinkers, YHBT.
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Since there's freeze distillation (per here), is it still a beer?
http://www.brewdog.com/blog-article.php?id=341
"Drunk off a skunk" is the closest I wish to come to "drunk as a skunk."
My cat just drank my beer and chewed up the squirrel.
With the heat and humidity here, that pelt would get wet and nasty pretty quick. It would make the recycling bin look pretty wild also.
Why.... Even though I don't drink alcoholic beverages anymore this doesn't instill interest in the product at all. Not even a little bit.... It's gross.
Sig?! Sig?! We don't need no stinking sig!!
Any moment, PETA will respond to this with some hilarious condemnation of using the carcasses of dead animals in a way that is disrespectful to the formerly living creature.
Absurdist elitist 'micro products' always pop up right when you need them.
I think people could really use the lift provided by owning and consuming a $765 bottle of beer from furry organic coozie - with a tail and soft brown eyes.
As for what killed the guy who drank from the dead squirrel, we'll have to wait until the lab reports are finished.
I need trepanation like I need a hole in the head.
...any such thing as 110 proof beer.
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Two of macho men's favorite pastimes rolled into one. Getting hammered and making out with small woodland creatures. Hawt.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
If they go bad will the squirrels turn into Skunks?
Seriously, who uses that kind of meaningless notation anymore?
And it doesn't even apply to porn in this case. Or at least I hope that's not porn.
Squirrels are rodents. They are cute little pests.
Furthermore, do you shed tears when people make exotic candy out of cockroaches or ants?
What about people who make escargot?
Hypocracy is only caring about the cute animals.
While I'm sure the beer is very flavourful, the presentation is tasteless.
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The reason the alcohol content is so high is not that its brewed, but that its freeze-distilled: by freezing the water out (the alcohol has a lower freezing point).
So calling it beer is really BS: its really a freeze-distilled whiskey.
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The fact that animals are being killed and stuffed not for consumption but to gaudily decorate a beer bottle, does kind of validate PETA's point, doesn't it. I don't support PETA the organization or their methods, but I do share their concern about how animals are used. It's one thing to raise an animal for consumption, and quite another to shoot and stuff a squirrel in order to use it as packaging.
And formerly-alive plants as well! Ones on which fungi have been allowed to grow! In fact, it consists mostly of the excreta of yeast! Eeww!
Have some cheese.
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So I'm guessing in this case, the cure for a hangover would be the hair of the squirrel that bit you?
Pound! Bang! Bin! Bash! is this a shell script or a Batman comic?
Why do they need to include the stuffed animals. Just drink enough of this beer, and you will see all sorts of things without having to pay the outrageous price.
And, what do you do with all the embalmed animals once you have drained them? You're drunk, there's a bunch of other drunk guys with you, there's a pile of fuzzy dead animals laying around. It all sounds like a perfect setting for something that's going to show up on COPS.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Of course there could. But it would have to be 62.9% alcohol. The beer in the article, at 55% alcohol, is 96.25% proof, not the 110 quoted.
I like Brewdog beer, but this is just attention seking.
They can go and take a running jump
Two girls / one squirrel, anyone?
For $800, they should have roboticized the squirrel and made it do the "Hamster Dance"!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
After a quick browse of their "store", it would appear that those thingies are 700 UK pounds a piece.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
Grey squirrels are disrespectful to wildlife in Scotland. Nice to see them put to good use.
Or at least re-doing the acronym.
First it was "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals"
Next came "People Eating Tasty Animals"
Now it's "Preserved Ethanol Tankard Animals"
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Tongue-in-cheek
Hey hey hey! This is about beer! No one said nothing about tongues! Sicko! ;)
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Are these free-range squirrels we're talking about?
I hate to think they'd use caged squirrels for this. That's just inhuman.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Mmmmmm.. Yeast excretions. Make mine still in production, please. Bleu is OK, but if you've got something really ripe, make it a double.
I like to hear the little yeasts scream as I eat them.
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I was thinking about getting a new pet, at least this one I wont have to clean up after!
I will hug him and squeeze him and call him George, then drink all his beer'y goodness
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Any moment, PETA will respond to this with some hilarious condemnation of using the carcasses of dead animals in a way that is disrespectful to the formerly living creature.
I disagree.
I can't think of a nobler way for a rodent to be immortalized.
Ted Nugent bought them all.
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In the product description on the brewer's site they claim the animal pelts were obtained from roadkill.
Yes, because showing care and concern for other creatures that inhabit this planet is something to be mocked at.
(Although, kudos to the folks for using already dead roadkill.)
...would love to see what his writing staff does with this!
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In that video I see furries getting killed by huge sausages.
Sorry what?
The wort is still fermented to create beer; they're playing with it further it after it's been fully fermented. In particular, as others have mentioned, these guys (as well as other breweries) are using a process referred to as the Eisbock method. It's thought of as a distillation, although it isn't technically a distillation.
With whiskey distillation, the grain mash simply yields primarily alcohol (at least 95%) - that's why the end product of the distillation is clear and free of the majority of congeners and other flavors. With this beer, all they are doing is removing water, accomplished by freezing it above alcohol's freezing point but below water's. (The temperature needs to be very precise and water crystallization very closely monitored) Because only the water is being removed, the beer's flavors and other substances remain intact with this method, therefore still retaining the original properties of beer. Think of it as beer concentrate.
Prove it.
...when you pry it from my cold, dead squirrel.
Furthermore, do you shed tears when people make exotic candy out of cockroaches or ants?
I'm fine with that so long as you actually eat them, or use them in some otherwise meaningful way.
What's described in TFS is more akin to burning ants with a magnifying glass for "fun" - in a sense that "fun" is the sole reason, there's no utilitarian aspect here whatsoever.
I can't know for sure, but I'd wager that raising squirrels in cages would actually be more expensive than paying some local hunter a couple of dollars for a dead squirrel.
Squirrels are all over the place, pay somebodies nephew to go out and get a few with his bb gun and you're good to go.
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as if that wasnt sick enough, they expect you to drink expensive bear from it .... i dont know which is sicker.
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I think PETA has a lot of morons, but I also have to say this does disturb me. Not so much in the ethical way (they used roadkill after all), but rather in the "what kind of morbid person would want a drink served in a dead animal" kind of way. Pretty similar reasons why I don't eat other creatures.
You'd think so. Where I live (suburbs), squirrels are truly a pest. No natural predator, plenty of food, they just destroy everything in my backyard: walnuts (never had a chance to taste them, they're gone long before they become edible), apples, strawberries (they eat even the buds!), cherries.
Last year I relocated 55 (fifty five) of them and this year a new crop already replenished the pool. Too bad I can't shoot them and have to resort to cage traps... there is no love lost - I fully understand the UP's dogs reaction :P
Given the above, I'd say that taxidermied squirrels as bottle covers are the only use one can find for them.
The reason the alcohol content is so high is not that its brewed, but that its freeze-distilled: by freezing the water out (the alcohol has a lower freezing point).
So calling it beer is really BS: its really a freeze-distilled whiskey.
Incorrect. Beer is brewed with the methods of mashing, hopping (optional), and fermenting. Whiskey is similar in how the mashing and fermenting is done. However, that is where the similarity stops. Look at the difference:
Whiskey: The fermented whiskey mash is distilled - the alcohol is evaporated off the mash. The result is a clear, at least 95% alcohol solution which is then mixed with water (decreasing alcohol percentage) and stored in barrels along with any other additives. The originating whiskey grain mash is discarded.
Beer: The fermented beer mash stays how it is. Alcohol is not boiled off. This result is a grain-based, yeast fermented alcohol with flavors and characteristics intact.
Eisbock method: (fractional freezing; an additional method used for these high gravity beers) The original beer with the fermented (not distilled) alcohol is chilled below water's freezing point, but above alcohol's. Crystallized water is then removed. The alcohol remains in the beer; its percentage goes up because water has been removed. The yeast's produced alcohol is not removed and isolated. The yeast still have done their fermenting job, their alcohol remains intact within the beer. The beer itself (flavors and alcohol) is just being concentrated.
Had they removed the alcohol from off the beer, it would then be a prelude to whiskey. It would also be clear until they started adding things to it. It's beer.
Prove it.
> Pretty similar reasons why I don't eat other creatures.
In other words, they've got their religion, you've got yours.
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Not being interested enough to look at the source video, dare I ask what part of the animal is the drinking spout?
Is this the world's first non-vegan beer?
Why in the world would anyone want to buy that, even if it was cheap?
Who thought those taxidermized squirrels would be a good idea?
The good, the evil and the vacuum tubes.
Leary's standup on the subject is absolutely hillarious.
"What are you?"
"I'm a cow"
"Get in the fucking truck"
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Sounds like you need to get yourself some nice Belgian ales or German wheat beers. Many are naturally carbonated in the bottle (a.k.a. bottle conditioned) using live yeast. Swirl up the yeast sediment from the bottom of the bottle before you pour it into your glass, and you get to commit mass yeast murder with every sip!
That is incorrect.
In thermal distillation, you're removing the alcohol from the mix (to condense it).
Using this process, you're removing water from the mix.
I think that the Linux community should consider adopting it as their beer of choice.
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Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not vegan or anything, and I have no real issue with, say, eating or wearing squirrels.
I just think that the gag doesn't really take very well. Basically, it's too try-hard to be funny. Additionally, I don't really want to drink my beer out of an animal.
It's not gross because some cute fluffy creature died. It's gross because a beverage is served out of a corpse.
There, fixed it for you.
No, I'm not kidding. Remember brewing is the alcohol-creation step before distillation.
The fact that this is freeze-distilled still makes it beer: unlike normal (boiling) distillation, you keep the wash, not the distillate. (How they avoid making it taste like ass is another question.)
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If you have any contacts at the site you linked to, "home distiller", then have them fix their web site and get rid of or at least minimize all the scripting.
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