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Dutch brewer reclaims world’s strongest beer crown from Brits

Posted on | July 30, 2010 | No Comments

Barely a week after British brewers BrewDog unveiled the world’s strongest beer, their title has been snatched away from them once more by Dutch rivals – who have produced a beer that is 60% alcohol.

BrewDog's super-strength ale: no longer the strongest in the world BrewDog’s super-strength ale: no longer the strongest in the world

Netherlands-based brewery ‘t Koelschip (The Refrigerated Ship) has taken back the booze crown from Scotland’s BrewDog with a 120 proof, 60% ABV tipple named ‘Start the Future’.

Start The Future is a riposte to BrewDog’s own The End Of History, a 55% ABV beer announced only last week, which cost £500 per bottle, each of which came inside a stuffed animal.

‘You don’t drink it like beer, but like a cocktail – in a nice whisky or cognac glass,’ ‘t Koelschip brewer Jan Nijboer told Dutch news agency ANP about Start the Future, which costs a more affordable €35 (£29) per bottle.

Nijboer previous record-holder, a beer called Oblix that was 45% alcohol by volume, had itslef eclipsed BrewDog’s own previous record holder, the 41% ABV Sink The Bismarck! BrewDog have faced criticism from both health campaigners and the brewing industry itself over their super-strength beers, such as the 18% Tokyo and another one-time record-holder, the 32% Tactical Nuclear Penguin.

‘It has become a little competition,’ Nijboer said. ‘You should see it as a joke.’

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