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Salted Beer
Here is beer with added sea salt. The label declares that it’s made with Swiss mountain spring water, barley malt, hops, yeast — and sea salt. Cargill recently drew a fair amount of flak for suggesting that people should sprinkle a bit of salt on their ice cream, coffee, fruit, but they neglected to mention beer. Douze is made in Switzerland and imported by B. United of Redding, Connecticut.
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64 Proof Beer (More or Less)
Time Magazine calls the above beer one of the world’s strongest. It looks to be considerably stronger than any beer that the US rules can tolerate. In other countries, Tactical Nuclear Penguin is sold as a beer, at 32% alc./vol.
But this approval shows that, under US rules, this “Super-High-Alcohol-Beer” is actually a distilled spirit (Spirits Distilled from Grain). The Time article explains how BrewDog uses low temperatures to get the alcohol content so high:
the brewery was able to attain the high alcohol content by freezing the beer at a local ice cream factory, at temperatures as low as -6°C (21°F), for 21 days. Alcohol freezes at lower temperatures than water, and removing water from the solution increased the alcohol concentration.
Under US law, such manipulation of the alcohol may be treated as distillation. The Time article points to two even stronger products that at least start as normal beers (before becoming tactical or nuclear):
The drinking games continued in February when a German brewer, Schorschbrau, released a 40% ABV beer called Schorschbock. The BrewDog boys fired back a few weeks later with high-octane concoction Sink the Bismarck!, which checks in at 41%, enough to reclaim the “world’s strongest beer” mantle. …
There is no sign that these other two have been approved for US sale at all yet, let alone as beer.
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Manly Parts and Booze, Part 6
The time is drawing near, to wind down this series. I am sure there are a great many more examples, further to this theme. Perhaps the readers will point to a few more. All of the above have something in common, and it should be pretty obvious.
The first label is from Arcadia Brewing of Battle Creek, Michigan.
The second label is from Vaz Brothers of Lodi, California.
The third label is from Arcadian Winery of Lompoc, California.
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Manly Parts and Booze, Part 3
According to Wikipedia:
And, apparently, the same term may also refer to Morning Wood Pear Wine, made by Long Trout Winery of Auburn, Pennsylvania. Not to mention Morning Wood Wheat Beer brewed by Bullwinkles Grill of Dillon, Colorado.
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Manly Parts and Booze, Part 2
Wanker wine is bottled by OC Custom Wine, of Anaheim, California. We didn’t really expect to run into any alcohol beverages with a wanking theme, but they are not few. Way back in the 1990s, a series of Wanker beer labels went to market.
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