Most Extreme Beers By Style

I just opened a Cognac de Muerte Dark Lord. Pretty Extreme

 

Ooh and what about Sink the Bismarck as the most extreme IIPA?

 

Dog Fish Head World Wide Stout, 18% abv. just like the 120.

 

Tactical Nuclear Penguin is a stout if I recall. 32%. Sink the Bismarck is a 41% DIPA if I recall as well.

Both the classic and helles Samichlaus are 14% bocks, which has to be up there.

 

Struise Messy – 39 % ABV Eisbocked RIS
Cantillon Lambic d’Haute Densité – 9.7 % High Density Lambic
3 Fonteinen Intense Red Oude Kriek – most ridiculously fruity beer – 700 – 750 gram kriek per litre of lambic
Dupont Avec les Bons Voeux – 9.5 % Saison
Samuel Adams Utopias – no need to explain
Fleurac Octo-Pyroclastic Black – 24 % BIPA
Schorschbräu Schorschbock 57% finis coronat opus – 57.7 % beer
Mikkeller 1000 IBU Ultramate – most ridiculously bitter beer

 

Cave Creek Chili Beer

Extreme-ly awful.

 

Bud Light Platinum

 

In the English Barleywine category: Avery's Samael's Destroyer. This year's is 16.9, and I think I had the 2011, which was still up there.

 

Creme Brulee. Not extreme ABV wise but extremely capable of causing diabeetus

 

In the American Barleywine category, I'd provide Founders Bolt Cutter. 15%, and delicious.

 

American craft beer innovation at its best.

Doppelbock- Left Hand Lapsang Souchong Tea Doppelbock (TNT)

 

Black Tuesday (and variants) 18-19%

BCBS - 14%

Mesostopheles (butchered the spelling) - like 16% (can't remember)

 

Samichlaus (14% abv dopplebock)

 

Sam Adams Triple Bock - hated it then but that was 600+ beers ago so who knows.

 

These are all 18% and up"

Sam Adams Triple Bock, Utopias, Millennium
DFH Fort, WWS, 120
De Struise Double Black Damnation, Special Kay, Five Squared
Brewdog End of History, Sink the Bismark, Tactical Nuclear Penguin, Ghost Deer, and Watt Dickie. Also Tokyo
Brewmeister Armageddon (but it is nowhere near what they claim)
Bruery Chocolate Rain, Black Tues, Grey Monday
Sonoran 100 and 200
DucLaw Colossus
Avery Samael, The Beast, and Mephistopheles
Mikkeller Heavy Black

 

It's no coincidence that most of these beers range from not very good to flat out awful.

 

Two Brothers 16th Anniversary - Belgian Strong Pale Ale at 16%

quite good too IMO

 

One of the Mikkeller imperial stouts, at the bar a year or two ago, I'm embarrassed not to remember which. Point is, quite aside from the booze power, it was like if you made a milkshake from an artisanal dark chocolate laced with black-pepper. Like a Black Albert boiled down. Frankly, all a bit too much.

 

I've never had DFH 120, but Double Crooked Tree is the most extreme IIPA I've ever had. There is really no other beer that tastes quite like it, and at around 13%, it really packs a punch. Also, I'm no expert on sours by any means, but Cuvée des Jacobins Rouge is pretty darn sour as far as I'm concerned. Probably the most extreme sour that I've had (but oh man, it is good!).