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Strongest beer ever has campaigners in a froth


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The owners of one of Scotland's largest independent breweries, BrewDog, were yesterday lambasted by health campaigners and politicians for creating Britain's most potentbeer ever – with a staggering 12 per cent alcohol content.

Dr Bruce Ritson, the chairman of Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems, declared there was no place for such a high-strength beer on the market. He said: "It is the last thing we need. If it became popular it would have devastating consequences for health as well as social order and violence on the streets."

Jack Law, the chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, also condemned the beer. He said: "What justification can there possibly be to bring an extra strong beer on to the market? Super-strength drinks are often favoured by young people and problem drinkers – is this really who the brewery wants to target?"

But James Watt, one of BrewDog's co-founders, remained unrepentant about his company's decision to brew what they are describing as an "intergalactic fantastic oak aged stout" which has been made with specialist malts, jasmine and cranberries before being aged on French toasted oak chips.

"The beers that we make are to be savoured and enjoyed. The (£4 per 330ml bottle) price takes it away from the market that are just drinking beer to get drunk. We in fact are the cure and not the problem."
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10 responses // Strongest beer ever has campaigners in a froth

  • Man that beer sounds amazing! Especially if its an "intergalactic fantastic oak aged stout" that has "been made with special malts, jasmine and cranberries before being aged on French toasted oak chips." I have no idea how cheap or expensive £4 per 330ml bottle is, but I'll take it.
    reneelikeshugs
  • It's like having the biggest burger. Why make and sell that crap?
    handshakeheartbreak
  • I want to try it!!!
    dadapapa
  • it'll taste like crap just like Special Brew and Tennants Super. Another tramp juice!?

    My mate once bought some like 9% beer that they could only sell in 1/3's not even 1/2 pint. It was like real ale, and all proper not trampy at all, and it tasted like crap.
    Ben_Traffic_UK
  • This is ridiculous - the fuss, I mean, not the beer.
    There have been Extra Strong Beers around for ages - one of the best (and strongest!) is Thomas Hardy's Ale (a.b.v. 11.7% - and originally stonger than that!) was first made in 1967 using a century's old recipe. The point is not to make you drunk quicker than usual beer, but to create a beer with a different, stronger flavour. Its designed to be drunk slowly, and in small measures (which is why it only comes in 330ml bottles).
    The problem is not the brewer's but the childish and idiotic drinking culture that years and years and years of ignorant and counter-productive alcohol licencing has created in the UK. By getting all worked up about this new beer, the only acheivement will be publicising it to the wrong sort of market.
    kristianbrodie
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  • http://current.com/items/89049305_confession_beer_shame
    I LOVE a strong beer. As long as you can keep yourself in control... apparently, so many of our peers have trouble doing that. Check out this Current Confession pod about shameful experiences after one to many at the pub.
    abbym0308
  • *slams down Hard Cider bottle*
    What's this?!
    huntre
  • We (Americans) argue about torture while they argue about beer! XDD
    anglcazn

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