Friday, November 27, 2009

Beer Boggles (the mind)

A Scottish (where else?) brewery, BrewDog, has released a beer weighing in at 32%, much to the horror of the Alcohol Focus Scotland (whose members no doubt felt like having a drink after hearing this would soon be hitting the streets). According to the BBC BrewDog previously released an 18% beer called "Tokyo", for which they were branded "irresponsible" (I'm not sure because the beer has 18% or for making any association with Japanese drinking culture), so they rather amusingly followed that beer with one called "Nanny State", which is described as a "low alcohol" beer (which by their standards might be 12%). The new beer's name? Tactical Nuclear Penguin, the first two words of which bring to mind some sort of nuclear weapon, whilst the third seems to be there as a non sequitur.

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