Full strength beer has an alcohol by volume strength of about five to six percent, while " light " beer ranges from one percent to two and a half percent. The road safety people have been urging drivers to change to the low alcohol product to help reduce the road toll.
It is discouraging to find that two boutique breweries - one in Germany and the other in Scotland - are waging war to develop the world's strongest beer.
It is a slow and costly process carried out over twenty-one days. Brewing is carried out at temperatures of -6 degrees, and as alcohol freezes at a lower temperature the water content can be removed - and the process repeated.
The first beer - named " Tactical Nuclear Penguin " achieved an alcohol by volume rate of 32% - about the same level as Vodka. That has since been overhauled by the Scottish brewery with a world beating 41 percent. They obviously enjoy a dig at their German competitor by naming that brew " Sink the Bismarck ! "
Fortunately this is unlikely to be served at your local pub anytime soon. And if it did, a 330 ml bottle of " Sink the Bismarck " would cost you about $ 60 !
It would also qualify as the most unwanted invention of the twenty-first century !
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