Does Brewdog’s Tactical Nuclear Penguin Deserve the World Record for highest ABV beer?  Myself and others been wondering this since the press release came out.  Over the last 15 months the Scottish brewery has been working on a monster of a beer to attempt to break the record for highest ABV beer.  On a commercial scale, the highest abv beer is the famed Samuel Adams Utopias. The current record holder is an Eisbock by Schorschbraeu GmbH which rocketed in at 31%ABV, but only had a production of 250 bottles.

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Our 16th Beer Brawl, was the first one on the road and probably the one I was looking forward to the most.  Beside being on the road in a new location with a new friend of Simply Beer, I really wanted to drink this line up of Bourbon/Whiskey/Scotch aged Imperial Stouts.  The beers in Beer Brawl 16 were all Imperial Stouts, either American Imperial or Russian Imperial. 

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