Boston brewer pushes new limits on extreme beer

BOSTON — It is banned in 13 states and sure doesn't come in a six-pack.
The maker of Samuel Adams beer has released an updated version of its biennial beer Utopias — now the highest alcohol content beer on the market. At 27 percent alcohol by volume and $150 a bottle, the limited release of the brandy-colored Utopias comes as more brewers take advantage of improvements in science to boost potency and enhance taste.
"Just part of trying to push the envelope," said Jim Koch, founder and owner of the Boston Beer Co. the maker of Sam Adams. "I'm pushing it beyond what the laws of these 13 states ever contemplated when they passed those laws decades ago."
Since the 1990s, craft brewers like the Boston Beer Co. and the Delaware-based Dogfish Head have produced a number of "extreme beers" that challenge old notions of beer and the decades-old laws that have governed them.
By law, these specialty drinks still are classified as beer when they are based on fermented grain. And despite the hefty prices of the high-scale beer, brewers still have to pay the required nickel deposit on bottles.
Paul Gatza, director of the national Brewers Association based in Boulder, Colo., said new yeast research allowed brewers to experiment with the emerging science that pushed the traditional cap of 14 percent alcohol by volume for beer.
"As a result, these new beers, like Utopias, balance sweetness, higher alcohol content and more ingredients," Gatza said.
A few states also have moved to adapt their laws to allow for the emerging craft brew market. For example, Alabama and West Virginia recently passed laws to allow higher alcohol content in beer. Lawmakers in Iowa and Mississippi are considering similar legislation.
Gatza said consumers are also pushing for the changes.
That's what sparked a brew battle between the Boston Brewing Co. and Dogfish Head.
In 1993, Koch set a new bar by creating Triple Bock, a beverage with 17.5 percent alcohol by volume. In the early 2000s, Dogfish Head responded with beverages of their own that went to 22 percent.
But the latest Utopias alcohol volume gives Koch and Boston Beer Co. the clear title of having the strongest beer, said Sam Calagione, president and founder of Dogfish Head. "I must bow before him for Utopias," Calagione said. "I don't think we'll be brewing a beer that strong for a while."
Utopias has reached its unique strength through a 15-year aging process in barrels at the Boston Beer Co.'s brewery in Boston. It's aged and finished in wooden containers like Scotch whisky barrels and sherry casks. The drink's yeast strains are regularly used in making malts and champagne.
A quick sip unveils a cognac-like hit combined with vanilla, honey, and maple flavors.
The long production cycle is what limits its availability to once every two years. This holiday season, for example, Koch is only releasing 10,000 bottles with the suggested retail price of $150 apiece.
"It's like making 21-year-old Scotch," Koch said. "Yeah, you can make more. You just can't have it for 21 years."
The drink comes in a ceramic-and-copper bottle that resembles a tiny brew kettle. Thirteen states prohibit its sale because its alcohol content exceeds the legal limit for beer: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Washington.
Chuck Hurley, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said the group in general doesn't have a problem with extreme brands of beer like Utopias. However, he hopes the beverage's higher alcohol content is properly labeled and that it isn't marketed to minors.
"Right now, we're reserving judgment," Hurley said.
Koch said the Boston Beer Co. is presenting Utopias as an exclusive beer for sophisticated drinkers that should be consumed like champagne. He said it's not a beer for the weekend football game or for a regular dinner.
He would not speculate whether he would try to get more extreme with future brews, but noted that no one ever thought there would be an "insane brewer" who would be making such a strong Utopias.
"We'll see," he said.

British brewers create 'world's strongest beer'

A British brewery has created what it claims is the world's strongest beer - coming in at 32% alcohol by volume.

The creation by Scottish brewing firm BrewDog, named 'Tactical Nuclear Penguin', beats the previous record holder, a 31% German beer called Schorschbraer. BrewDog, based in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, previously attracted controversy in July this year when they released Tokyo*, an 18% beer, which was branded 'irresponsible' by health campaigners. But with only 500 bottles of Tactical Nuclear Penguin going on sale, priced at £30 a bottle (plus post and packaging), it seems unlikely to become the binge-drinker's tipple of choice. The stout was aged for 16 months in whisky casks, then stored at -20ºC for three weeks to increase the alcohol content. The company said in a blog post that Tactical Nuclear Penguin 'should be enjoyed in spirit sized measures.' They say that a warning label on the bottle states: 'This is an extremely strong beer, it should be enjoyed in small servings and with an air of aristocratic nonchalance. In exactly the same manner that you would enjoy a fine whisky, a Frank Zappa album or a visit from a friendly yet anxious ghost.' As well as selling the bottles for £30, BrewDog - which has become increasingly popular with beer enthusiasts - is also offering a £250 version which includes a stake in the company. They say they are offering the equity in an attempt to raise money to build a new, carbon-neutral brewery in Aberdeen. The company responded to previous criticism of the strength of their beers by releasing another beer with an ABV of 1.1%, named 'Nanny State'.

Clock couple's outdoor sex display thrills crowds

There is a time and a place for sex. But up a clock tower in Sydney, in full view of watching crowds, in the middle of the day... that's not one of them.

As the hands on the clock above this frisky couple show, their antics took place in the middle of the afternoon.
It may not be the most romantic of places for an intimate clinch, but never knock those Aussies for sheer courage and determination when it comes to getting jiggy.

Situated on a balcony just beneath Sydney’s historic clock tower, opposite a busy shopping centre, the spectacle soon drew an interested crowd. ‘Everyone in the area started to look up and point, laugh and grin,’ said a bystander who took pictures of the al fresco lovers.
‘From the looks of it, the couple seemed to know they could be seen and seemed completely unfazed.’
So far, the identities of the pair remain unknown, although newspapers in Australia have urged them to come forward and show themselves. With their clothes on, of course.

Isnt it, Black Bikini Friday?

Happy Thanksgiving To All

(Click on photo for slideshow)

Redneck Thanksgiving

We Love Squaws....

Thanksgiving Bikini

Countdown to Thanksgiving

Drunk pervert tries to have sex with stuffed giraffe

A stuffed giraffe has been rescued from the clutches of a pervert who wanted to have sex with it.
Police in Oregon, USA, saw drunken Sean McDowell, 24, picking up the 1.3m (4ft) tall toy outside a shop and simulate sex with it twice.
'He was pretty enamoured with it and decided he was taking it home,' said Sergeant Bob Smith.

'Then he turns and sees one of our officers and he puts the giraffe down and walks away. Later in the evening, he did it again. Maybe he had struck out with all the women at the bar and this giraffe was looking pretty good.'
The poor giraffe belongs to the Bug A Boo children's store and was removed to a place of safety at the station.

Happy Birthday Bo

Henri Uncovered

No wonder Henri passed the ball with his hand during the match with Ireland yesterday...The Brew Crew found out the real story!!! Henri played baseball before soccer for the California Angels...Here's his baseball card!!!

It's Miss November Time...

Woman lied about cancer to get boob implants

Authorities say a Texas woman lied about having breast cancer, watched as friends raised $10,000 at a benefit for her, and then spent it to have her breasts enlarged.
McLennan County sheriff's investigator James Pack said that 24-year-old Trista Joy Lathern wanted breast implants to try to save her seven-month marriage.
Pack also said in court records that Lathern shaved her head to look like a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy.

Her husband, William Lathern, has now filed for an annulment of the marriage, the Waco Tribune-Herald reports. She has been charged with theft by deception, and also re-arrested on a two-year-old warrant for theft by check.

Booze prospectors set to drill for Scotch whisky in the Antarctic

A team is set to drill through Antarctica's ice sheets in search of precious, valuable liquids. But it's not oil they're searching for - it's a lost cache of vintage Scotch whisky that has been on the rocks since a century ago.
The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whisky that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition.
Workers from New Zealand's Antarctic Heritage Trust will use special drills to reach the crates, frozen in Antarctic ice under the Nimrod Expedition hut near Cape Royds.
Restoration workers originally located the whisky reserves under the hut's floorboards in 2006. At the time, the crates and bottles were too deeply embedded in ice to be dislodged.
Only some bottles will be rescued in the drilling expedition - under Antarctic conservation guidelines, the rest must stay put.
Whyte & Mackay, the drinks group that now owns McKinlay and Co., has asked for a sample of the 100-year-old Scotch for a series of tests that could decide whether to relaunch the now-defunct Scotch.
But Al Fastier, who will lead the expedition in January, said he did not want to sample the contents.
'It's better to imagine it than to taste it,' he said. 'That way it keeps its mystery.'
Richard Paterson, Whyte & Mackay's master blender, said the Shackleton expedition's whisky could still be drinkable and taste exactly as it did 100 years ago.
If he can get a sample, he intends to replicate the old Scotch and put McKinlay whisky back on sale.
'I really hope we can get some back here. It's been laying there lonely and neglected. It should come back to Scotland where it was born.
'Even if most of the bottles have to remain in Antarctica for historic reasons, it would be good if we could get a couple,' Paterson said.

More Posters

Tampa man calls 911, asks for sex

NOVEMBER 12--Meet Joshua Basso. The Florida man was arrested yesterday after allegedly placing a series of obscene 911 calls during which he asked a female operator about her breasts and whether she would have sex with him. When confronted by cops, Basso would not say whether he was masturbating while talking to the operator, as he claimed during the calls, according to a Tampa Police Department report. The 29-year-old rooming house resident admitted placing the calls, but "did not think he would get in trouble for calling 911." That miscalculation resulted in Basso being charged yesterday with a misdemeanor count of misusing the 911 system (he was booked into the Hillsborough County jail, where the below mug shot was taken). Asked why he chose to dial 911 from among "all the numbers he could have called," Basso told police that his LG cell phone was out of minutes and he "called 911 because it was free." An excerpt from one of Basso's calls--which he placed while a shower was running in the background--can he listened to via the above link. Basso appears to be pleasuring himself while an operator diligently tries to obtain his address.

Dead Guy Ale

POOP

Oregon man Calvin Hoover charged with DUI after 911 call to report stolen marijuana

SALEM, Ore. - Oregon police have charged a man with drunken driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher couldn't understand him because he was vomiting while on the road.
Marion County sheriff's deputies say 21-year-old of Salem, told dispatchers early Tuesday that someone had broken into his truck and stolen cash, a jacket and a small amount of marijuana while he was at a tavern in Salem.
He then called 911 again to complain that deputies had not arrived, but the dispatcher had trouble understanding Hoover because he was driving and stopping several times to vomit.
He was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of intoxicants.
The sheriff's office says it has no record of an attorney for Hoover.

This Sucks....

An American couple are looking into other methods of having children after they discovered that she was allergic to his sperm – on their wedding night.
Mike and Julie Boyde of Ambridge, Pennsylvania, went out for two years after meeting at university and got married in 2005.
Before their wedding, the couple always used protection, but once they became as man and wife and had unprotected sex, things started to go wrong.

"Pretty much right after I knew something was not right because I was in a lot of pain," Julie reveals in an interview for a documentary called Strange Sex.
"The pain that I was feeling was inside, like somebody sticking needles up inside of me like a real painful burning. It was really scary."
Her suffering would last for weeks after the couple had sex, and sometimes blisters appeared.
Doctors were initially unable to explain the affliction, but a friend suggested that it might be an allergy and after a range of tests, the problem was diagnosed as seminal plasma hypersensitivity.
'The body recognises the sperm as a foreign protein, like it would recognise a peanut allergen or a pollen so you have swelling, you have itching, you have inflammation of the nerve endings," explains Dr Abndrew Goldstein from the University of Cincinnati Medical Centre.
It also means that Julie body attacks Mike's sperm and renders it inactive.
Doctors developed a treatment for the problem, but while it worked for some couples who suffered from the same problem, it didn't work for Mike and Julie.
The Boydes are now looking to adopt instead.

Shaggggy-Doooooooooo

Cops dont like butt rubbing? Butt Why?

BAYOU GEORGE -A 48-year-old woman was arrested on a DUI charge after she offered to survey a deputy’s property, handed him a restaurant menu, and tried to “dance with the stars” by twirling and rubbing her backside on his leg during a roadside sobriety test, according to a report.
About 5:50 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, Bay County Sheriff’s patrol deputy Randy Grob was parked in the Bayou George Baptist Church parking lot, signing paperwork with three other deputies. A car leaving a nearby cafe drove up, came to a stop and a woman driver rolled down her window. Grob asked if she needed help.
“She then offered to survey my home and any other property I might own,” Grob wrote in the report.
Her eyes were red and weeping, the report said. She began to back into oncoming traffic, and when Grob tried to stop her, she continued to back up, forcing other traffic to slow or stop. She continued on past the deputy, who performed a traffic stop at the intersection of U.S. 231 and Jarvis Drive.
When Grob approached her car, she stated she “knew what I needed” and produced an Outback Steak House menu, the report said. Asked for her drivers license, she handed the deputy her wallet without the license. She then located the license and offered Grob her Blue Cross card without being asked for insurance information, the report said.
Grob saw a pint vodka bottle on the passenger’s seat, an overturned can of mixed nuts, and a wine glass on the floor, the report said. Later, Grob found a second nearly empty pint bottle and a bottle of apple mixer under her purse and car debris on the passenger’s front floor.
Other deputies arrived, and as Grob briefed them, the woman now identified as Verleen Anglin of Panama City “exited the vehicle and skipped back toward the three of us,” the report said. Grob directed her to perform a roadside sobriety test.
Directed to do a one-leg stand, the woman “began to ‘dance with the stars,’ grabbed me and twirled herself several times and attempted to rub on my legs using her butt,” the report said. The woman was handcuffed and taken to the Bay County Jail intoxilizer room, where she refused to provide a sample, the report said. She was charged with DUI.

The hidden dangers of PMS!!!!

Why cant mothers & daughters get along?

Woman calls police because daughter was better at oral sex

We all know it's a serious offence to waste police time, but try telling that to the woman who called officers to complain that her daughter had performed oral sex on her husband – and that the daughter was better at it.
The guilty off-spring was actually the step-daughter of the man, and her crime of passion in Findlay, Ohio, has caused outrage among readers of the newspaper website that reported it, thecourier.com.
Their comment page has been flooded with angry responses.

One indignant reader, Lee, thought the story sucked: ' I subscribe to The Courier but will cancel if the public record is going to be filled with details of multiple female family members servicing the male of the house. This is not news. I think any moral man or woman would call it what it is: depravity!'
Another, Jeff, spat: 'This is totally unprofessional and inappropriate for a newspaper to print.'
However, the editor of thecourier.com does have his supporters, not least one Mark Shelton, who had nothing but praise for the saucy story: 'Gotta love The Courier's docket writer! The most creative writing in any paper around. And for those that don't like it, don't read it!!'
Whatever the rights and wrongs of publicising the incident, let's just hope the daughter gets a, ahem, stiff sentence.

We like cats!!! Sliced thin....

DWTS's Joanna does playboy..