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Brewer claiming 65% ABV (yes, you read that right) gets schooled:

Almost exactly a month ago, the co-founder and MD of Brewmeister, Lewis Shand, admitted to me, in front of witnesses, that their beer Armageddon was not 65%abv as claimed. Commenting on the post I wrote following that conversation, he accused me of writing ‘lies’ – yet it now seems they were actually nothing of the sort. In another series of astonishing admissions, on Tuesday Lewis wrote this blog post, revealing the results of their own long-awaited analysis of Armageddon, which they had seemingly been pressured into commissioning. Here are those results, text copied directly from that post:-

The results are back however. It turned out as follows. The first 4 batches were at the correct ABV (within 1% is allowed, so they were all between 64-66%). We did not have any bottles from the next batch but two consecutive batches after this were not the desired ABV – they were nearer the pre-freezing strength, the lowest one was at 15.25%.

15.25% abv. This is even lower than the results of another independent test I have recently seen the results of, commissioned by a friend within the beer industry. Analysed at an HMRC-trusted laboratory attached to a brewery with experience of spirit distillation, the results of alcohol by volume testing for Armageddon came back last week:-

Armageddon – abv 22.86% (PG 1020.28)





There’s lots more (and some really good stuff in the comments)…a good read.

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Thanks for posting this Roberto. The gem in the comments I liked was from Roger on doing his own research on Snake Venom (tested to be 41.16%/alc., claimed to be 67.5%/alc.):

I have also done this research, drank 4 bottles of this Snake beer and it was so horrible I was sick eleven times that night, my hat was filled with vomit and it was disgusting, I cannot believe they are making this beer that not only cost me £200 but made me sick eleven times, fight the good fight here.

Assuming the Snake Venom was in 330ml as the pictured Armageddon he is lucky he didn’t get alcohol poisoning [swoon.gif]

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These guys at the extremes of “stunt brewing” make me scratch my head…who WANTS to drink a beer that’s 50% stronger than Bourbon?