We do three months of tastings, starting in the spring. We have to monitor the temperature in our barrel houses in Boston and Pennsylvania because the fumes could be explosive,” said Koch. Tactical Nuclear Penguin was created by a Scottish brewery called BrewDog. The brewery is focused on craft beer and also has opened up a beer bar in Brussels and another bar in Paris. Though they are usually focused on quality craft beer, then they wanted to do an ambitious project and create the world's strongest beer. The beer has an ABV level of 32%. The aim was to put Scotland on the map with craft beers and create a buzz. Some of these strongest beers in the world exceed 60% of alcohol levels. Yes, you read that right. But why such strong beers in the first place? Let's be honest, not many of these breweries focused on taste or quality when brewing these beers. Some of them wanted to break the world's strongest beer record, some breweries wanted a new challenge, and a few indeed did it for the beer flavour. If you are a proper beer geek, you should try any of these at least once. But let's not waste any more time and see which ones are the strongest beers in the world. Here are some of the strongest beers in the world.

The tested entries in this guide were chosen based on high ABV first, relative availability second. As mentioned above, I drew from various knowledgeable sources in selecting each beer featured here. It’s aged in oak barrels to add to its flavor – this might be another super-strength beer, but this one is brewed for taste rather than just to show off how much the brewers can raise the ABV. However, despite this huge amount of alcohol, this is undeniably a beer rather than a spirit – perhaps the first one on our list that can be described as such. Rogue’s 2020 edition of its Rolling Thunder Imperial Stout series is outstanding. It delights the taste buds without attracting too much attention, and even a small dose delivers a hearty buzz appropriate for any — well, pretty much any — occasion. It’s the darkest, strongest beer on our list, and it’s proudly produced fully in-house by Rogue — from barrel nails to bottlecaps.At 28% ABV, this tipple is still more reminiscent of a spirit than a beer, and most people will easily be able to imagine they are drinking a scotch or a bourbon. These beers are aged in barrels, and the flavor is a complex smoky, malty, fruity mixture. Brewing a beer like this is a bit like trying to build the fastest land car. It shows you can do it and it means you hold the record – but it doesn’t serve any practical purpose. We don’t sell stuffed squirrels at Beers of Europe. Or beers that are anything near as strong as a whiskey. But we do sell beers ranging from 0.5% to 14.9% from all over the world. Some of our favourite strong beers include: The beer’s name “The End of History” derives from philosopher Francis Fukuyama’s book "The End of History and the Last Man", in which he postulates that democracy and political and economic liberalism will triumph and democracy will be the end point of political evolution.

One of the breweries in the country is Baladin, and their flagship product is the Esprit de Noel beer. This elegant beer is aged in oak barrels, giving lovely dark chocolate and wood aroma.What’s the strongest beer in the world? That’s the question on everyone’s lips these days, and with new beers springing up on the market all the time, it’s not always easy to answer. The strongest beer in the UK, for example, might be world’s apart from the strongest Belgian beer and what’s strong one year could be considered weak the next. So what’s strong these days, and are strong beers even tasty? We’ll examine all of these issues and more in the following post. The race to produce the strongest beer has been running for quite some time, with breweries all over the world clamoring to win the strongest brew accolade. Special techniques like re-pitching with Champagne yeast or freeze-distilling mean that beer has long ago transcended its average realms of 4.5%-5%. In 1994, the strongest beer listed by the Guinness Book of Records was a beer called Vetter that was just 10.5%. By 2011, the strongest beer was BrewDog’s Ghost Beer at 28%. Holy Grail might be the holy grail of those seeking a beer with high alcohol content but without the strong rubbing alcohol note!