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The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel

Posted by samzenpus on from the it-still-beats-toe-drinks dept.

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.

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  1. Drink too much... by natehoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Drink too much... by rasper99 · · Score: 2, Informative

      I think that would be a civit which is a cat like animal not a Monkey:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civet

      Maybe you've taken exotic coffee to a new level.

  2. One thing by ceraphis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  3. The actual link by Bryansix · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.brewdog.com/blog-article.php?id=341

  4. Re:Is it a beer? by mmkkbb · · Score: 2, Informative

    German Eisbocks are still considered beers, but at 55% alcohol, this is just really crappy infused whiskey.

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  5. Does it come in other animal flavours? by Reilaos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Drunk off a skunk" is the closest I wish to come to "drunk as a skunk."

  6. Nuts by sv_libertarian · · Score: 4, Funny

    My cat just drank my beer and chewed up the squirrel.

  7. Re:ew by camperdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    can i buy it without the squirrel?

    Ah! For that, you'd want The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served OUTside a Squirrel.

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  8. Condensation by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  9. Hilarious PETA response in 3... 2... 1... by zero_out · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  10. Re:Is it a beer? by eln · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even if it's still technically beer, it isn't going to taste anything like beer. At beer's usually low alcohol content there are lots of subtle flavors that would get completely overwhelmed by the alcohol taste at 110 proof. You might as well just drink grain alcohol, it will probably taste about the same.

  11. There is not, and cannot be... by John+Hasler · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...any such thing as 110 proof beer.

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    1. Re:There is not, and cannot be... by NotBornYesterday · · Score: 3, Informative

      Beer is a fermented beverage generally made from grain, perhaps some herbs/flowers/berries to flavor and/or preserve it, water, and yeast. Generally speaking, if you take a beverage like that and distil it, you've created a different kind of beverage; whiskey.

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    2. Re:There is not, and cannot be... by bm_luethke · · Score: 2, Informative

      What is exactly beer will differe for regions - a few have "purity laws": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot

      However that doesn't include things like wheat beers which are obviously still beer, however they all are basically fermented barely, hops, and water - wheat, rice, fruits, vegetables, and other flavoring can be added (and make no mistake with them - a "fruit" beer can be VERY heavy, bitter, and alcoholic. There is no reason why one can not make a right tasty raspberry imperial stout and many homebrewers do).

      What the person you are asking is referring to is that beer are *fermented*, little living organism called "yeast" eat the sugers from the grains, fruits, or any others they can and turn it into alcohol (in a sense we are drinking their excrement). Since they are alive and it is a bilogical, not chemical, process these organism have tolerances for the environment they live in. As a brewer there are four basic ways you "stop" fermentation.. Commercial brewers usually ensure death of the little critters by pasteurizing the beer, few homebrewers have the equipment to do it (not to mention many of us hate the taste it imparts and would refuse even if we could). The more typical way is to have the yeast eat up all thier food and die out from starvation - if I put 3lbs of malts in a mash it will have a lower alcohol content than if I put 10lbs in there for that reason. The last, and least common way for beer makers is with a high enough alcohol content it kills them.

      For the latter most yeast strains die at about 10% per weight (do not know by volume), there are wine yeasts that will go into the ~15% and I have an especially hardy strain go nearly to 18% but that was only once (and the mead tasted terrible too, they produce more than alcohol and they ate so much of the sugars/body of the mead it was ... bad, those "other" products generally do not taste good). For the most part anything above around 12% by weight is going to be hard to do and take either luck (or really unlucky for a brewer)or a great deal of skill with keeping them alive.

      To go higher than that you need to distill the product or fortify it (which is adding distilled alcohols back into it to stop fermentation - port wines work that way). In which case it ceases to be beer and becomes something else. At 50% alcohol (most likely by volume) it is more akin to how you make many other spirits - you take a highly pure neutral alcohol and add some other liquid to get it to the proof you desire. Vodka would be cut with water, schnapps cut with a flavored sugar syrup, lemon-cello with a lemon zest extract and water, and then either sold as is (vodka) or aged in some process (wooden barrels for whiskey). In this case you would cut it with beer.

      As such it is, most definitely, *not* beer anymore.

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  12. Skunk? by rabblerabblerabble · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If they go bad will the squirrels turn into Skunks?

  13. Freeze Distilation != Brewing... by nweaver · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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  14. On the other hand... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:On the other hand... by demonbug · · Score: 4, Informative

      According to the original article, all of the squirrels and stoats used were roadkill (damn drunk drivers).

    2. Re:On the other hand... by stonewallred · · Score: 4, Informative

      Fuzzy tailed fucking tree rats. Damn things eat all my pecans and walnuts every year. Hate the little bastards. On;y thing they are good for is the stew pot where you can make some mighty fine gravy from their cooked carcasses.

    3. Re:On the other hand... by Pharmboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I've had squirrel dumplings a few times, it is decent. Growing up, my dad (country boy turned retired military turned oil geologist) make sure we tried everything: rabbit, turtle, squirrel, and lots and lots of deer and fish. I still fish and clean and fry/bake my own. Don't hunt because I don't care for it, but there is something to the idea that if you are going to eat animals, you should be willing to actually obtain, clean and prepare them yourself at least once in a while. If someone can't handle that, then perhaps they should go vegetarian. Store bought meat is just hiring someone else to do your dirty work, which is fine as long as you don't pretend it wasn't an animal previously.

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  15. Re:55%, not 110 proof by swanzilla · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, who uses that kind of meaningless notation anymore?

    Jack, Jim, Jose, et al

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  16. Hangover? by lazlo · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I'm guessing in this case, the cure for a hangover would be the hair of the squirrel that bit you?

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  17. Why the stuffed animals by SnarfQuest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

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  18. Nonsense. by Chelmet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Nonsense. by sssssss27 · · Score: 2, Informative

      It depends on the country. In the United States alcoholic proof is double the alcohol by volume.

    2. Re:Nonsense. by Chelmet · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Ah. It being a Scottish beer, brewed not far from me in fact, I was using the British notation - I didn't realise there were any others.

      If you read on where the 'proof' system came from, you'll quickly see that the american one is, in fact, nonsense, but I suppose that that's a debate for another day.

  19. Re:Hilarious PETA response in 3... 2... 1... by nomoreunusednickname · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Grey squirrels are disrespectful to wildlife in Scotland. Nice to see them put to good use.

  20. Re:Engineers & PETA by natehoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  21. Re:ew by Shakrai · · Score: 3, Funny

    can i buy it without the squirrel?

    Is the moose included with the squirrel or is that an additional fee?

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  22. Re:Sold out by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ted Nugent bought them all.

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  23. Re:Is it a beer? by stonewallred · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh no dear low UID. The differences in flavor between a 55% alcohol beer or liquor and 190 proof grain alcohol is magnitudes apart. You can guzzle most 90-110 proof liquors straight from the bottle with no real problems, but you won't do it without major damage with everclear (190 proof). Difference between waving your finger quickly through a butane lighter flame and slamming it on a red hot stove burner.

  24. Re:These stuff(ed) beer are not cheap... by GungaDan · · Score: 3, Funny

    700 pounds? That's a big fucking squirrel! Which makes that $1068.14 price tag seem not quite so bad...

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  25. Re:ew by Gilmoure · · Score: 5, Funny

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  26. Re:Speaking of PETA, by Just+Brew+It! · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, no. British cask conditioned ales have traditionally used a substance called isinglass as a clarifying agent. Isinglass is made from the swim bladders of fish. There are apparently also a few breweries that use oysters as an ingredient in Stout.