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I must admit, I do like to wet myself on a park bench after a few czech pilseners.....am I wrong?

"EoinMag":10qlzs1q wrote: Must be great for brewdog though, they really coudln't pay for it.[/quote:10qlzs1q]Yeah, that's the bit about it I don't like: the fact that it's a really quite cynical bit of guerilla marketing. There won't be enough people making the obvious sensible points, because journos don't want to hear them. Ultimately, I can't see it helping the cause of decent beer.

Radio Kerry mailed us hoping we would be outraged and could give them a solid rant

"Radio Kerry":10qlzs1q wrote: to make the point that brewing beer is a craft - it's not about cramming it with as much alcohol content as possible.[/quote:10qlzs1q]
Nope, sorry.

"TheBeerNut":3uo5ols2 wrote: Radio Kerry mailed us hoping we would be outraged and could give them a solid rant

"Radio Kerry":3uo5ols2 wrote: to make the point that brewing beer is a craft - it's not about cramming it with as much alcohol content as possible.[/quote:3uo5ols2]
Nope, sorry.[/quote:3uo5ols2]

But it definitely is quite skillful to brew that particular beer.

Aww man. Listener e-mails in that there used to be this beer called "barley wine" which was very strong, and people who drank it knew it was very strong. I get hopeful that we're about to get an observation about Ireland's lost ability to handle the strong stuff.

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Glad you liked to interview. It seemed to go well from where I was sitting anyway.

They were definitely looking for someone to be outraged by this. When I was talking to the researcher yesterday she was actually surprised when I defend brewdog. She thought I was just going to jump on the "less of that now!" band wagon and try to add that we're not all that bad.

The outrage is actually all part of the same alcohol culture as binge drinking. The only reason people would be bothered by the concept of a high alcohol beer is if they see beer as nothing more than a means to an end. If pints of the stuff to get drunk is your only experience of beer then this would seem like a very bad idea indeed, but it requires a very narrow and unhealthy attitude to alcohol.

People with a healthy attitude to alcohol would not see this as a problem, because they drink a sensible amount of alcohol, regardless of how strong the beverage is.

did nobody spot the elephant in the room?

&amp;quot;news.sky.com/&amp;quot;:25jy6cat wrote: The beer, called Tokyo*, has an alcohol content of 18.2%, meaning a single pint would contain 12 units, equivalent to a full bottle of wine[/quote:25jy6cat]

now i'm no mathmetician but could it be that a bottle of wine available for a third of the price might have more units than the actual 330ml bottle? no,silly me, i didn't think so. Boo down with this sort of thing