I Dare You
10 scary beers
Posted by: John Chandler on Nov 30, 2010 at 10:00AM
8 Comments
Looks like that liquid nuclear waste known as Four Loko will soon either be off the shelves or perhaps reappear in some neutered format. If you’re still seeking daredevil drinks, here’s a list of 10 beers that might quench your thirst for thrills. Many thanks to longtime reader David for sending these along. If beastly beers aren’t your cup of tea, there are alternatives.
Questions for the day
Has anyone out there actually tried one of these? Can they be found locally (I’m lookin’, I’m lookin’)? Which one sounds most/least appealing? Do you feel lucky, punk?
Tags: Craft Beers Product Testing
I have had the bottom four beers on this list; Kelpie, Tactical Nuclear Penguin, Exit 1 Oyster Stout, Sink The Bismarck and La Dragonne.
Tactical Nuclear and Sink The Bismarck are pretty awful, all fusel alcohols. Kelpie and La Dragonne are quite good. Exit 1 Oyster Stout is alright but picks up a little metallicness from the oysters. You know Upright Brewing right here in Portland, OR made an Oyster Stout and is about to brew it again and its pretty damn good.
There are somethings that should remain sacred. While I get the thrill of daring your friends to pound a cold one, beer should be beer. Under no circumstances should it contain kelp, oysters, fruit, wasabi, or other wacky crap. In my humble opinion.
@Samurai: You are a true warrior.
@Geez: Wacky crap is the future of brewing.
It’s not clear to me what market these brewers are targeting, as I have a hard time believing that more than a tiny fraction of drinkers would ever try these beers, and then no more than once. But hey, it’s their funeral. Well, theirs and whoever drinks these things.
I’ve had pumpkin pie flavored beer, and that’s as low as I’m willing to sink.
@Geez
Your idea of what beer is is flawed from the beginning. The Kelp beer is an old recipe, more in line with what beer would be like before the advent of mass commercialism beer. Its a style of beer known as a Gruit, a beer brewed with herbs and/or spices instead of hops and there are still a few commercial examples even a few made locally.
Oyster Stout also is a style of beer dating back hundreds of years and a search on beer advocate.com shows more than 40 of them being produced. Considering most beer uses salts and gelatin from fish bladders using oysters is actually not strange at all.
@Eric
I think these brewers are doing something different and often times a throwback. The BrewDog stuff is clearly a marketing ploy to get attention but the others are often based on unique flavors and old world styles. I fail to see why a brewer should stick with the time honored american tradition of swill corn lagers. Are you really an advocate of keeping everything the same and never trying anything new?
I gotta get my hands on one of them dead squirrel beers. I’m so tired of having to stuff my beer bottles down the throats of dead squirrels manually; I’m glad someone thought up this timesaver.
@Samurai Artist, slavery has a long history and is still occasionally practiced today. Just sayin’.