I hope nobody bought tactical nuclear penguin for the resell/trade value.
I'm more impressed with Utopias as an achievement in excess. A war to see who can freeze distill a beer more seems a little silly, but its all in good fun I guess.
This is just getting stupid. Thats not beer.
I'd consider Utopias beer because it was fermented all the way with yeast. This is just another form of distillation at this point. ****, distillers mash barley and ferment too.
Is the name a jab at the Germans who took the title from them with their 40% beer? The Bismark was a Nazi war ship that was supposed to turn the war around but ended up sinking.
So they distill it, right? They must, since I don't know of a yeast that can hit 80 proof. In my mind, if it's distilled, it's no longer beer. It's barley vodka.
I hope nobody bought tactical nuclear penguin for the resell/trade value.
I'm more impressed with Utopias as an achievement in excess. A war to see who can freeze distill a beer more seems a little silly, but its all in good fun I guess.
I think it was Garret Oliver who described Scotch as "distilled beer", so then this is scotch in a beer bottle? (except for the hops)
So by the logic presented here, Schneider Eisbock is no longer a beer either?
I think I'll stick to my lite beer from Dogfish Head.
I think I'll stick to my lite beer from Dogfish Head.
Wow lots of haters in here. Lighten up a bit and have some fun with beer why don'tcha.
First off it is beer - Beer that's been freeze distilled. Other comapanies have done this before.
So even if you don't like it, it was beer when it was frozen and last time I checked it was beer when it came out - just missing some of the water.
I personally would like to try it just to see how it tastes. I think it's fair to say this would be a sharing beer.
And barley vodka??? Really?? Freeze distilling beer and distilling vodka are two very different animals. They are not even close.
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Originally Posted by Edcculus
No, Eisbock is a legit style. Plus, with that style, you aren't really concentrating it that much, and its still being carbonated. This 40% beverage is being concentrated/distilled beyond reasonable recognition as a beer.
Sorry but Eisbock IS a beer made by using freeze distilling. It is a legit style that uses this technique.
And have you had this yet? Your claiming the it is "being concentrated/distilled beyond reasonable recognition as a beer"? I'd hope with a claim like that you have actually tasted it before.
Labels are for suckers, try it before you bash it.
I mean, hell "I" can freeze a beer to concentrate the alcohol (EisBier) but, I cannot isolate a 21% alc tolerant yeast strain.
How would you feel the next day after drinking 12 ounces of 41% ABV beer? That's the same as 12 shots of 80 proof liquor, right?
from a Chemical Engineering standpoint. Freeze distilling is a misnomer anyway, anyone ever drank applejack, techincally that is freeze distillation they freeze about 40% of the water out of hard cider and distill the rest IE boiling and collecting the liquor, Eisbock is the same thing without the distillation process, al they are doing at Brewdog is freezing out the water there is no "distillation" going on. You could not recreate this process in a Home brewing situation.
from a Chemical Engineering standpoint. Freeze distilling is a misnomer anyway, anyone ever drank applejack, techincally that is freeze distillation they freeze about 40% of the water out of hard cider and distill the rest IE boiling and collecting the liquor, Eisbock is the same thing without the distillation process, al they are doing at Brewdog is freezing out the water there is no "distillation" going on. You could not recreate this process in a Home brewing situation.
I consider freezing a form of distilling, personally.
Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in their volatilities in a boiling liquid mixture.
I mean I consider myself to be an intelligent person. But in reality I'm a 26 year old community college student.
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