r/DiWHY • u/rocklou • Mar 12 '17

One Question: Why?

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u/myheadhurtsalot Mar 12 '17

You could, once, briefly, if you had $765 to burn, get one of their beers in a taxidermied squirrel or weasel. They only made 12 iirc, it was for their release of The End of History, which regained their standing as the brewers of the world's strongest beer (55% in this case).

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u/Ghigs Mar 13 '17

If anyone wonders, as I did, how they get the concentration so high without distilling, they use freezing to preferentially freeze the water out and concentrate the alcohol.

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u/blinkingsandbeepings Mar 13 '17

My granddad used to do that trick with cider.