Okay, so I’m just back on the last train from Belfast after attending the Gapwines/Brewdog Beer Event at the Garrick Bar and by the looks of it a good time was had by all. I’ll hopefully post a proper round-up of the event when I’ve sobered up (free BrewDog beer does not clear brain make) but I can reveal that later today BrewDog plan to announce we did get a bit on the freshly announced news on BrewDog producing, what is reckoned to be, the world’s strongest beer, called Tactical Nuclear Penguin, weighing in at a hefty 32%. Yes, you read that right, 32%. Quite what the Portman Group will make of this is anybody’s guess, but as Richard McLelland said in his intro, this is more about challenging themselves as brewers than it is about getting into the record books. The science is there, and it involves an ice cream factory, so it’s more a case of experimenting to see if the theory works in practice. This is not a beer for the thrifty, the price I was quoted was £35 a bottle.

The video was certainly very entertaining, and informative, and you can view it here. And there’s more on the beer itself over on the BrewDog blog.