by Ian Johnston
msnbc.com
You'd expect a lot from a bottle of beer costing $765. What you get is 55 percent alcohol — and served in a squirrel.
According to Scottish firm BrewDog, "The End of History" is the "strongest, most expensive and most shocking beer in the world."
Just 12 bottles were made and the company has already sold out. They will be shipped out to buyers in the United States, Canada, Italy, Denmark, Scotland and England next week.
The dead animals which were used to create the beers' unusual appearance were four squirrels, seven weasels and a hare. All were roadkill, James Watt, co-founder of BrewDog, told msnbc.com.
The name of the blond Belgian ale is taken from the title of a book by philosopher Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History and the Last Man" which the company said had been chosen to imply "this is to beer what democracy is to history."
Watt said the beer should be treated with care when drinking.
"It tastes more like a whisky and you have got to handle it in that way as opposed to the way you would handle a normal beer," he told msnbc.com.
What has this world come to?
ReplyDeleteThis is wrong in so many ways.
ReplyDeleteFirst, the idea of making a very high alcoholic beer....which disrespects any craft....is bad enough.
Why not just drink a Boilermaker?
The packaging, the press, the hype.....unreal.
My only solace is that some people will buy this!
A fool and his money will soon be separated!
Well, if history should be viewed as an evolutionary process, this is a step back not only for mankind but serious beer drinkers alike.
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