The $2000 Beer?

[buffdaddy]

Saw this blurb and said to myself this better be the best damn beer I've ever had








"We’ve gone to great lengths to obtain delicious brews and, while we love Portland’s Hair of the Dog, we just can’t fathom spending four figures on one bottle. Still, with the release of a few more bottles of the heralded “Dave,” we figured we should put the boozy treat on your radar. Dave is a 29% ABV barleywine that was made from freezing gallons of “Adam” (another Hair of the Dog beer worth drinking) many, many times. Past releases have gone for over $2000 at auction and we’re sure the 12 new bottles that have been put out will do the same. "

http://coolmaterial.com/home/hair-of-the-dog-dave/

http://www.hairofthedog.com/

 

[Shaving_CHENG]

I get squirmy at $2000 CLP (Chilean Pesos), roughly 4 USD.

 

[jesseix]

I'd really be interested to know who the people are who are buying this for $2k/bottle. There's not too much in the world of wine or booze that goes for 4 figures, let alone beer...

 

[Sneetch]

Hah...really?

I know all the beer cognoscenti out there will mock me, but can't imagine anything worse than that. I love craft beer of all types, but Hair of the Dog is probably my least favorite brewery. My palate is neither young nor timid, but Adam is the only sixer that I have actually poured down the sink.

Cheers,
JW

 

[Techichi]

What I don't get is how freezing a beer over and over would make it more desirable.

 

[Pedro Navaja]

For that price you could have had a better name.

 

[Oregoneon]

What I don't get is how freezing a beer over and over would make it more desirable.

It doesn't make it more desirable but it will make it stronger. To get a beer to 29% you have to take drastic measures as you could never get brewing yeast to get it that strong. I read they started with 300 gallons and ended up with under 100 after freezing it many times.

"The concept is simple: water (the main component of beer) has a higher solid-to-liquid phase transition temperature (aka "melting point") than does ethanol. If one were to get beer cold enough, one could freeze some of the water in the beer -- the alcohol would remain liquid -- and separate the solids from the liquids. This would yield almost-pure water ice, and beer with a higher percent alcohol-by-volume (%ABV). Repeated rounds of this (under successively colder conditions) could yield a pretty potent brew."

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-01/beersci-how-make-strong-beer-stronger

 

[Oregoneon]

it should be added that all proceeds went to charity (Guide Dogs for the Blind).

 

[ReAndyMator]

If it's anything like the Brewdog freeze-distilled beer (Watt Dickie, IIRC), it'll be unpleasantly sweet, and generally not very nice.

 

[chado006]

it should be added that all proceeds went to charity (Guide Dogs for the Blind).

This makes more sense then. They're paying $50 for a bottle of beer and making a donation of $1950 to the charity.