Koelschip claims to have strongest beer

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Message NobleSquirrel beers 3437 º places 209 º 08:05 Tue 3/2/2010 Originally posted by Papsoe As I understand it The "Obilix" is a gimmicky "protest beer". The 45% is simply achieved by adding whisky. The Koelschip brewer, Jan Nijboer, finds the race between Schorschbräu and BrewDog for the world’s strongest beer to be a stupid one as he doesn’t consider the ice distilling to be a "proper" way of brewing beer. In his opinion "Samichlaus" should be considered the strongest as it reaches its 14% by ordinary fermentation. Some Dutch or Flemish user please correct me if I’m all wrong. actually, iirc, doesn’t Utopia reach it’s abv without distillation?
Message CanIHave4Beers P beers 4376 º places 76 º 08:37 Tue 3/2/2010 Originally posted by NobleSquirrel Originally posted by Papsoe As I understand it The "Obilix" is a gimmicky "protest beer". The 45% is simply achieved by adding whisky. The Koelschip brewer, Jan Nijboer, finds the race between Schorschbräu and BrewDog for the world’s strongest beer to be a stupid one as he doesn’t consider the ice distilling to be a "proper" way of brewing beer. In his opinion "Samichlaus" should be considered the strongest as it reaches its 14% by ordinary fermentation. Some Dutch or Flemish user please correct me if I’m all wrong. actually, iirc, doesn’t Utopia reach it’s abv without distillation? Then comes the adjunct sugar argument.
Message gunhaver beers 1030 º places 13 º 08:41 Tue 3/2/2010 Originally posted by CanIHave4Beers Originally posted by NobleSquirrel Originally posted by Papsoe As I understand it The "Obilix" is a gimmicky "protest beer". The 45% is simply achieved by adding whisky. The Koelschip brewer, Jan Nijboer, finds the race between Schorschbräu and BrewDog for the world’s strongest beer to be a stupid one as he doesn’t consider the ice distilling to be a "proper" way of brewing beer. In his opinion "Samichlaus" should be considered the strongest as it reaches its 14% by ordinary fermentation. Some Dutch or Flemish user please correct me if I’m all wrong. actually, iirc, doesn’t Utopia reach it’s abv without distillation? Then comes the adjunct sugar argument. which is a silly argument

Message CanIHave4Beers P beers 4376 º places 76 º 08:42 Tue 3/2/2010 Originally posted by gunhaver Originally posted by CanIHave4Beers Originally posted by NobleSquirrel Originally posted by Papsoe As I understand it The "Obilix" is a gimmicky "protest beer". The 45% is simply achieved by adding whisky. The Koelschip brewer, Jan Nijboer, finds the race between Schorschbräu and BrewDog for the world’s strongest beer to be a stupid one as he doesn’t consider the ice distilling to be a "proper" way of brewing beer. In his opinion "Samichlaus" should be considered the strongest as it reaches its 14% by ordinary fermentation. Some Dutch or Flemish user please correct me if I’m all wrong. actually, iirc, doesn’t Utopia reach it’s abv without distillation? Then comes the adjunct sugar argument. which is a silly argument Yes it is, but anyone arguing that Samichlaus is the strongest always brings it up.
Message kappldav123 beers 9000 º places 10 º 21:34 Tue 3/2/2010 Strange, now they took the newsletter article away from the Koelschip website. There they were talking about this beer to be made after the German Purity Law - I wonder why, if whiskey is added to the beer.
Message JoeMcPhee P beers 12259 º places 543 º 00:38 Wed 3/3/2010 How strong is the whiskey they’re adding? In order to get it to 45% with a base beer at 13%, they’d need a shitload of even something at cask strength. It would literally be more whisky than beer in that case.
Message ChristianSA beers 368 º places 21 º 00:53 Wed 3/3/2010 Originally posted by JoeMcPhee How strong is the whiskey they’re adding? In order to get it to 45% with a base beer at 13%, they’d need a shitload of even something at cask strength. It would literally be more whisky than beer in that case. If they claim it is beer (and thus at least 50,1% beer with added liqour), then the Whiskey has to be 77% ABV. Wonder if the the admins at Ratewhiskey.com accept a 77% whiskey? -Christian

Message Trappistenbier beers 52 º places 4 º 01:04 Wed 3/3/2010 Originally posted by ChristianSA If they claim it is beer (and thus at least 50,1% beer with added liqour), then the Whiskey has to be 77% ABV. Indeed, in this case, a LOAD of very strong Whiskey had to be inserted. Can we still call this liquid beer ?? I strongly doubt. If so, we can easily add some 99.8 vol% pure ethanol. Easy, isn’t it Anyway, the main reason for launching the "Strongest Beer in the World" is ONLY to give attention towards their brewery. A certain manner to get into the news, radio, newspapers, beer forums. Yes, to get in the picture. And..... they succeeded. This is called "marketing". Cheers, Filip
Message Rciesla beers 5497 º places 3 º 01:18 Wed 3/3/2010 Whiskey added to increase overall ABV, dunno but everything about that screams End Thread to me.
Message jbrus P beers 4986 º places 168 º 01:20 Wed 3/3/2010 Originally posted by Rciesla Whiskey added to increase overall ABV, dunno but everything about that screams End Thread to me. Let them discuss but it’s not allowed in the ratebeer database.