The Bar Journal

A Scottish brewery is aiming for a spot in the Guinness World Records book after producing the world’s strongest beer.

Brewmeister’s Armageddon beer has an incredible 65{779800b323ee42e5ed999e502e0319b1817165bd3ddf64ca8ef6f651c78cdacf} abv.

The brewery, which began production earlier this year with a local pale ale, is situated about 25 miles outside Aberdeen, on the estate of Kincardine Castle.

The beer has a viscous quality to it, due to the special freeze fermentation method used to produce such a high alcoholic beer.

This process involves cooling the beer to zero degrees during the brewing process; as the water freezes the alcohol does not and then the ice that forms is removed, leaving a very strong beer.

The beer will be launched at the Inverness Beer Festival on 3 November where it will sell for £5 a 35ml nip. The brewers recommend drinking it in small quantities, rather like a brandy.

Armageddon is the latest beer in a long-running battle to take the title of world’s strongest beer. Three years ago BrewDog kicked off the battle with their Tactical Nuclear Penguin, which was a 32{779800b323ee42e5ed999e502e0319b1817165bd3ddf64ca8ef6f651c78cdacf} abv beer.

This started a tit-for-tat exchange with German brewers, Schorschbräu, and these two breweries created a number of beers, each with a stronger abv than the last.

Then in 2010 Dutch brewer Koelschip put out its “Start the Future” beer, which had a 60{779800b323ee42e5ed999e502e0319b1817165bd3ddf64ca8ef6f651c78cdacf} abv. That stayed as the strongest beer until the boys from Aberdeen came along with Armageddon.

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