Beer 65% Alcohol ???
Oct 27, 2013, 1:02 am
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Beer 65% Alcohol ???
Snake Venom Beer 65%. How the H*ll do you make beer that strong ? I thought the alcohol kills off the yeast (even champagne yeast) at around 13%. Have they bio-engineered mutant alcohol resistant yeast ? If they fortify it w/a ton of alcohol - how can you call it beer ? LINK:http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/wo...174300468.html
Oct 27, 2013, 2:49 am
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I'm guessing it is some sort of fractional freezing process. Cool the beer to where water freezes but the alcohol doesn't, remove the (water) ice crystals and leave the still liquid ethyl alcohol to increase the proof. That's my guess and I'm sticking to it. 
Oct 27, 2013, 3:47 am
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http://www.popsci.com/science/articl...-beer-stronger
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Oct 27, 2013, 6:21 am
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Beer 65% Alcohol ???
Eisbocks are made this way. taken to the extreme you can definitely get to 65%. Whether it's drinkable or not is another matter...
Oct 27, 2013, 7:07 pm
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I don't find a whole lot of anything that's drinkable at 130 proof. Cask strength whiskeys are brutal ! Thank you all. I just couldn't get my head around it