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67.5%
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 5:46 pm
by chris_schryer
New record high kids. At what point do they start using Fukishima yeast?
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/world ... -1-3153914
Re: 67.5%
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 9:12 am
by Kel Varnsen
chris_schryer wrote:New record high kids. At what point do they start using Fukishima yeast?
What I want to know, is at what point does it stop being beer, and become whisky? I mean it is not like you are getting all of that alcohol out of fermentation and yeast.
Re: 67.5%
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:37 pm
by Tapsucker
Kel Varnsen wrote:chris_schryer wrote:New record high kids. At what point do they start using Fukishima yeast?
What I want to know, is at what point does it stop being beer, and become whisky? I mean it is not like you are getting all of that alcohol out of fermentation and yeast.
I too am curious. Short of distilling or freezing (AKA eisbock), I wonder how they are hitting these numbers. Are there really yeast that thrive in this?
Re: 67.5%
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:32 pm
by icemachine
Tapsucker wrote:Kel Varnsen wrote:chris_schryer wrote:New record high kids. At what point do they start using Fukishima yeast?
What I want to know, is at what point does it stop being beer, and become whisky? I mean it is not like you are getting all of that alcohol out of fermentation and yeast.
I too am curious. Short of distilling or freezing (AKA eisbock), I wonder how they are hitting these numbers. Are there really yeast that thrive in this?
I'm pretty sure this is being freeze-distilled, I think even the highest powered yeasts conk out around 35%
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:57 pm
by JeffPorter
When I heard this on the radio this morning I thought the same thing - it's whiskey. Or at the very least call it "distilled beer".
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 3:07 pm
by chris_schryer
Well, arguably, it's Beer Schnapps, but yes, it's a distillate. Ice-distilled, if I understand. But the nomenclature gets a bit funny. Because people (notably Sam Koch) say that by being distilled, it's now not "beer". But that means Eisbock isn't beer. And, for that matter, neither is Utopias (which Sam claims is the highest abv "true" beer), because the evaporation in the barrel is, itself, a kind of distillation (albeit a much slower version). I think beer geeks can chase their tales for decades nit-picking over definitions about "Craft" and "Beer" and whatever else, but for the most people, it's all a bit silly. If the producer calls it a beer, most people will agree until they can get a bump-sticker level argument against it.
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:53 pm
by JerCraigs
Does it taste any good? It's just silly.