55% ABV: BrewDog The End of History

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Message Rustyham beers 1836 º places 106 º 17:03 Thu 7/22/2010 Cuck Originally posted by after4ever Distillation to my mind, in conversation, means boiling. Eisbocking to my mind, in conversation, means freezing. Now. El Camino: Car or truck?
Message Enniskillen beers 2074 º places 67 º 17:03 Thu 7/22/2010 Just in time for my visit to Scotland.
Message Mjollnir beers 534 º places 12 º 17:37 Thu 7/22/2010 Originally posted by after4ever Distillation to my mind, in conversation, means boiling. Eisbocking to my mind, in conversation, means freezing. Now. El Camino: Car or truck? Ute

Message mkade8883 beers 250 º places 28 º 17:46 Thu 7/22/2010 Originally posted by Frank Distillation uses heat by definition. To be picky, that is 100% not true. Vacuum distillation often does not require heat.
Message SamGamgee P beers 2452 º places 182 º 17:54 Thu 7/22/2010 Originally posted by mkade8883 Originally posted by Frank Distillation uses heat by definition. To be picky, that is 100% not true. Vacuum distillation often does not require heat. I think we can settle on evaporation then.
Message Frank beers 4561 º places 92 º 21:08 Thu 7/22/2010 Originally posted by SamGamgee Originally posted by mkade8883 Originally posted by Frank Distillation uses heat by definition. To be picky, that is 100% not true. Vacuum distillation often does not require heat. I think we can settle on evaporation then. SamGamgee to the rescue! One way or the other their is an inherent difference which I feel is the most relevant to this discussion. Freeze distillation (or whatever you want to call it) concentrates the sugars and flavors of the beer where regular distillation does not. I guess we can all agree on that pretty much. To me, I just can’t see why we would only allow it to a degree. The cutoff point would necessarily be somewhat arbitrary and I hate arbitrary... So we say 20%... OK. So you have a beer that’s 19.9% one year and allowed. The next year it is 20.1% and tastes nearly identical and it’s not allowed. I’m sorry but that just doesn’t make sense and you can avoid the problem all together by just allowing freeze distilled beers and not allowing distilled beers (which are generally called whiskey). No arbitrary cutoff point. Actually, come to think of it, I’d honestly have no problem whatever w/ people adding whiskey to the database. There is no website that really does whiskey rating well and a lot of us love it. In the US it is more closely related to beer culture than, say, sake... but that’s a whole different discussion.
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Message DYCSoccer17 beers 3746 º places 344 º 22:52 Thu 7/22/2010 We should do away with all the "NA" beers on the site, too. They don’t have significant amount of alcohol in them, so they’re just really bad Kombucha.
Message CaptainCougar beers 7131 º places 142 º 23:07 Thu 7/22/2010 I just want to know how many calories are in a bottle .
Message CaptainCougar beers 7131 º places 142 º 23:20 Thu 7/22/2010 I think it would be ironic if they had used a skunk body, because the body itself would provide great protection from the beer actually getting "skunked".