Best Disguised Alcohol Content

ABT12 or BCBS always get the best of me. I underestimate the ABV and end up paying for it after a couple.

 

Now that I think of it heady topper has absolutely no alcohol taste or burn. I'd also have to agree with ten fidy. Someone mentioned bcbs, and I laughed so hard I fell off my dinosaur. Bcbs is a awesome beer but that shit lets you know it's alcohol!

 

No offense to anyone, but you've got to have a wrecked palate to think alcohol is disguised or unnoticeable in something like SA Utopias, unless you're holding your nose during the tasting.

 

Normally, all beers should strive to hide the alcohol as well as they can. When it comes to huge, barrel-aged monsters, then it becomes less of an issue to hide it and more of an issue to integrate/balance it within the flavors being presented.

 

PtY

 

Victory at Sea. 10% and you can't taste the alcohol at all.

 

Definitely Vitus. At 7.7% it's not crazy high, but it's a beer that's so crisp and refreshing I feel like I could drink 10 of em in a row

 

Permanent funeral was pretty impressive

 

I second that. I drank the Soft Parade quickly at their pub (I was in no hurry but just sip after sip after sip). The effects came to me quick before the food came!

 

For me it's got to be Rochefort 10. I had a couple of them last night to end an evening of very moderate drinking, I got my ass kicked severely. But the 10 is as smooth as mama's milk.

 

Mama must have been a heavy drinker...

PS: ...but at least she had good taste

 

Just finished a BCBS, and for a heavyweight in ABV terms it's just a tremendous sipper. The ABV is very well hidden in the chocolate.

 

Older viscosity ( incredibly drinkable like a port), Avec le bon voex saison, ten fidy, etc

 

Ale Apothecary for sure. They work wonders with their oak barrels.

 

Weyerbacher Tiny comes to mind. 12% velvet. Not overly complex, but that abv. sure is camoflged.

 

Dogfish 90

 

to a n00b palate, RuinTen and Lake Erie.. I can taste that alcohol, quite profusely..

 

Tasted this for the first time on Saturday and was stunned that the alcohol was so well hidden.

 

There's a brief section in my 'DK Eyewitness Companion Beer' book in which Michael Jackson sums up Duvel quite nicely:

"When it was first produced, one brewery worker is said to have commented: 'that's the devil of a beer.' Hence the name, a corruption of the Flemish word for His Satanic Majesty. The beer is indeed capable of leading one into temptation...Nor does the extremely floral aroma and relatively light body offer any warning that this is a beer of 8.5% ABV...Almost all of its imitators use names that imply at the very least mischief if not pure evil intent."

 

Anchorage Brewing - A Deal with the Devil. You know it's a hearty Barleywine... but doesn't drink like it's +17%. A local one that surprised me... and probably what this thread is really about... but Josh at Hops and Grain in Austin brewed an Imperial Pilsner at 9.5%. Dangerous! Mow lawn, drink beer, pass out!