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Posted: 3/4/2006 1:16:32 PM EDT

ive tried a few and recently ive been on the a/b hurricane lager 8.1% kick its not too bad and it does definatly does the trick. not as good tasting as mickies but it works alot better.

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:19:25 PM EDT

[#1]

Arrogant Bastard gets my vote. Great tasting, American made. What else do you need?

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:19:27 PM EDT

[#2]

Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA. A measly 21% ABV.

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:19:27 PM EDT

[#3]

Ice type beers are usually your higher alcohol content per volume stuff. Bud Ice and Molsen Ice are two that I usually drink. I prefer the Molsen, but it's harder to find down south.

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:21:35 PM EDT

[#4]

Jim Beam

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:22:38 PM EDT

[#5]

Sam Adams Utopias is like 24% by vol. It's the strongest beer ever produced, and drinks more like a cognac that beer. Good luck getting your mitts on it. It's a special edition thing and runs $100+ for a 24oz bottle, though the bottle is really cool.

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:24:23 PM EDT

[#6]

Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:25:03 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA. A measly 21% ABV.

Good one.
Molson XXX

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:25:37 PM EDT

[#8]

Coors Light

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:27:01 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Sam Adams Utopias is like 24% by vol. It's the strongest beer ever produced, and drinks more like a cognac that beer. Good luck getting your mitts on it. It's a special edition thing and runs $100+ for a 24oz bottle, though the bottle is really cool.

i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/ibdmentd/samadams_utopiasmm.jpg

Hair Of The Dog Dave
Hakusekikan Eisbock

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:32:05 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Sam Adams Utopias is like 24% by vol. It's one of the strongest beer ever produced, and drinks more like a cognac that beer. Good luck getting your mitts on it. It's a special edition thing and runs $100+ for a 24oz bottle, though the bottle is really cool.

i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/ibdmentd/samadams_utopiasmm.jpg

fixed for the incredulous

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:47:46 PM EDT

[#11]

I don't get it...

Drink Guinness, be happy.
Need more alcohol, drink Knob Creek bourbon.

Just want to get drunk, drink vodka.

But wtf is with just getting drunk? Drunk is bad, either drink responsibly cuz it tastes good, or consume a different beverage, because you're setting yourself up for some serious problems by lusting after alcohol for a "high".

Sam Adams $100+ for a 24oz bottle, you gots be out yo mind!

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:49:21 PM EDT

[#12]

Australia's Victorian Bitter.

Posted: 3/4/2006 1:54:51 PM EDT

[#13]

8.1% isn't good enough for you? I guess your only options are barleywines and Russian Imperial Stouts.

Posted: 3/4/2006 2:00:14 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
8.1% isn't good enough for you? I guess your only options are barleywines and Russian Imperial Stouts.

no its dang diddlily dammed good enough, i was just looking for some aletnatives neighborino.....

Posted: 3/4/2006 2:07:14 PM EDT

[#15]

Belgian ales, like Chimay

Posted: 3/4/2006 2:07:20 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale

.

+1 or try

wine style barley ale.

Posted: 3/4/2006 2:07:37 PM EDT

[#17]

Rochefort 10 is 11.3%.

It's the greatest beer ever - if you can find it.

Posted: 3/4/2006 2:08:02 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
8.1% isn't good enough for you? I guess your only options are barleywines and Russian Imperial Stouts.

Russian Imperial stouts!!!!!

Posted: 3/4/2006 2:17:44 PM EDT

[#19]

St.-Sixtus Trappist Monastery's Brewery Tap,
In de Vrede, Donkerstraat 13, Westvleteren, Belgium.
tel 057 40 03 77 (bar), 057 40 10 57 (beer availability in the Monastery)
www.indevrede.be/languagee/index.htm & www.sintsixtus.be/eng/index2.html (Monastery)

Don't just buy the hype, BUY THE BEER!

This beer is some seriously good shit... I picked up a "six pack" in Brussels a couple weeks ago. It was the 8% blue cap. It really is the best beer I've had to date. Dark, but very smooth.. I mean incredibly good. I wanted to bring home some of the others, but didn't have room in my bag. Next time.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westvleteren
www.whitebeertravels.co.uk/sixtus.html
www.classiccitybrew.com/west.html

Posted: 3/4/2006 2:21:04 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Molson XXX

I grew up in Canada and really like the beer from up there. It's actually far cheaper to buy it here in the U.S. because they don't tax it so much.

Molsen XXX is strong and one of my favorites.

Posted: 3/4/2006 2:21:36 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale

whats big foot rated at? ive seen that stuff and will try it if its up to the task.

Posted: 3/4/2006 2:25:20 PM EDT

[#22]

www.sierranevada.com/beers/bigfoot.html

its a barley wine style ale.

FYI : I have tried both and I think hog heaven is much better

Posted: 3/4/2006 2:35:37 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Belgian ales, like Chimay

This is your best choice. It's excellent.

tf

Posted: 3/4/2006 2:37:20 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale

whats big foot rated at? ive seen that stuff and will try it if its up to the task.

~18%, IIRC.

Kharn

Posted: 3/4/2006 2:39:50 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Arrogant Bastard gets my vote. Great tasting, American made. What else do you need?

Big +1. I was going to say the exact same thing. Around Christmas time there's also one that comes out called "Lump of Coal". It's a super tasty beer with bigtime alcohol content.

Posted: 3/4/2006 3:03:31 PM EDT

[#26]

Weyerbacher Brewery's Blithering Idiot

Posted: 3/4/2006 3:15:33 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Drink Guinness, be happy.

Aye. +1!

Posted: 3/4/2006 3:22:20 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Drink Guinness, be happy.

Aye. +1!

-1

Guinness =

Posted: 3/4/2006 3:23:24 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Belgian ales, like Chimay

+eleventy billion.

You just reminded me to go get some more.

Posted: 3/4/2006 3:26:47 PM EDT

[#30]

You guys do realized that anything with as much alchohol as some of these can hardly be called beer. Hell, even a barly wine isn't over 12% or so as the yeast will die off from the alchohol just like it does with anything else.

Those 24-28% monsters have to be fortified after fermentation.

Posted: 3/4/2006 3:31:38 PM EDT

[#31]

i made a derivative of "racky racoon's crystal malt ale" a few years ago using rice malt, regular light malt and a champaign yeast.

it weas pushing 23% alc. content when i stopped the fermentation. That shit was DA BOMB! 1 beer was equal to roughly a 6 pack of regular Domestic beer. Scary thing was it went down like water.

Posted: 3/4/2006 3:34:04 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
You guys do realized that anything with as much alchohol as some of these can hardly be called beer. Hell, even a barly wine isn't over 12% or so as the yeast will die off from the alchohol just like it does with anything else.

Those 24-28% monsters have to be fortified after fermentation.

actually no,

there are yeast strains that will handle it. of course they are NOT beer yeasts.

Posted: 3/4/2006 3:35:58 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Arrogant Bastard gets my vote. Great tasting, American made. What else do you need?

Thats some sick stuff you can order it online or atleast you could.

Posted: 3/4/2006 4:35:16 PM EDT

[#34]

San Miguel? I seem to remember another Filipino beer, X something?
Jim

Posted: 3/4/2006 4:38:29 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Belgian ales, like Chimay

+1

Posted: 3/4/2006 6:27:17 PM EDT

[#36]

Tres Pistoles. It's Canadian and fairly high in alc. content but hey translated it's three pistols beer cant go wrong with that!!!

Posted: 3/4/2006 6:40:32 PM EDT

[#37]

Bells Expidtion Stout. Made in Kalamazoo, MI

or

take a beer, pour it out and put some JD in it

Posted: 3/4/2006 6:46:26 PM EDT

[#38]

Belgian ales are cool...and Haywards 5000 is pretty nice as well. Not as strong as some of the Belgian brews, but very smooth.

beersummit.com/customer/product.php?productid=16265

Posted: 3/4/2006 7:42:58 PM EDT

[#39]

I live just outside of Harrisburg so I say Troeg's Troegenator! It's around 10%. Lancaster Brewery Hop Hog is also great, at about 7.3% Dogfishhead Immort Ale is also around 10%, but it is $60 a case. Troegenator is half that, and tastier.

Posted: 3/4/2006 7:46:39 PM EDT

[#40]

When I was in college, the strongest beer we could get (easily) was EKU 28.

BevMo says they have it.
EKU 28

Very dark.

Posted: 3/4/2006 7:54:48 PM EDT

[#41]

St. Ides 008 that shit will get you buzzzzzzzed!!

Posted: 3/5/2006 2:05:01 AM EDT

[#42]

Over 9% alcohol by volume. Plus the elephants are really cute.

Posted: 3/5/2006 2:11:43 AM EDT

[#43]

I don't understand the desire for high alcohol beers. I drink beer for the tase (really). The highest alcohol content beer that I've ever had was Molsen XXX. It's 7.5%. The alcohol overwhelms the beer flavor even at that ratio. I'l stick with 5% or less.

Posted: 3/5/2006 4:32:38 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
I don't understand the desire for high alcohol beers. I drink beer for the tase (really). The highest alcohol content beer that I've ever had was Molsen XXX. It's 7.5%. The alcohol overwhelms the beer flavor even at that ratio. I'l stick with 5% or less.

+1 if your drinking for taste that true, occasionally some folks like a buzz to go with it.

Posted: 3/5/2006 5:05:48 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
St. Ides 008 that shit will get you buzzzzzzzed!!

i tried that stuff before and it tastes like piss, ill leave them for the bums. hurricane is much better

Posted: 3/5/2006 6:14:48 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale

whats big foot rated at? ive seen that stuff and will try it if its up to the task.
~18%, IIRC.

Kharn

9.6%

Posted: 3/5/2006 6:59:04 AM EDT

[#47]

steel reserve taste preatty good and its 8.1% and that beats the hell out of the 3.2% beer they sell in the regular stores in utah .any other states have lowerd alchol content beer by state law

Posted: 3/5/2006 7:06:56 AM EDT

[#48]

Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA. A measly 21% ABV.

+2 i live about 30min from the brewery

Posted: 3/5/2006 7:26:44 AM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:
Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA. A measly 21% ABV.

+2 i live about 30min from the brewery

Wow, if I lived that close to Dogfish Head I would have drank myself to death years ago.

Posted: 3/5/2006 7:39:29 AM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:
You guys do realized that anything with as much alchohol as some of these can hardly be called beer. Hell, even a barly wine isn't over 12% or so as the yeast will die off from the alchohol just like it does with anything else.

Those 24-28% monsters have to be fortified after fermentation.

They've bred strains of yeast designed to survive high alcohol environments. It's harder, and you have to heavily oxygenate the environment for it, and it's designed mainly for industrial alcohol production, but it is out there. Google "turbo yeast".

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