BrewDog Tactical Nuclear Penguin
From BrewDog – The Antarctic name inducing schizophrenia of this uber-imperial stout originates from the amount of time it spent exposed to extreme cold. This beer began life as a 10% imperial stout 18 months ago. The beer was aged for 8 months in an Isle of Arran whisky cask and 8 months in an Islay cask making it our first double cask aged beer. After an intense 16 month, the final stages took a ground breaking approach by storing the beer at -20 degrees for three weeks to get it to 32%.
BrewDog – Tactical Nuclear Penguin – 330 ml bottle poured into a Double Bastard specialty glass. 32% abv (64 Proof)
Appearance: Pours like dark roast coffee with no head.
Aroma: Liquid smoke, bbq potato chips, rubber cement. The alcohol is so strong in burns the back of my nose.
Taste: Wood, what I’d imagine paint to taste based on how it smells, soy sauce, M & M’s, barbecue sauce, toasted nuts,wood, peaty smokey malt, dark roasted coffee and burnt malts.
Mouthfeel: Warm and thick.
Overall: This beer was pretty over the top and obnoxious. This beer should steal the show at any tasting, and will actually warm you up quite a bit. I did not consume the entire bottle myself, and I don’t think I could anyhow. I guess because it started out a beer, it remains a beer. If someone handed me a glass of this, with no name or bottle, I’d say this is a hardcore concoction of hard alcohol and a liquor. So how will BrewDog be able to top this?
Bonus: Here is a picture taken by Jonny Fullpint. Pretty sweet packaging, including the paper bag with the “drawn on” penguin.
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[...] marketing like this could have aided their survival. I’ve had the fortune of trying Tactical Nuclear Penguin and Sink The Bismarck, and I’ve walked away from both feeling I’d rather have a move [...]
I bought 2 bottles $180 to ship to US.
Thoughts: an experience I’ll never forget. Taste: One that I’ll never forget. Definitively a beer for only the diehard beer conesure.
By far the worst tasting beer I ever had. I dont know if it automatically skunks because its frozen in the brewwing process. I chilled the bottles to drink them with my best friend. Over the corse of 2 hours I finished a bottle. We had to force ourselves to finish it and dare not waste any because of the price. I dont know if its because it took so long or it was the alcohol but it tasted better at the end when it was warm. I was drunk off the one bottle. Surprisingly no hangover. I would recomend chasing a bottle with something else so that the after taste doesn’t linger too long.
@Dan Don’t sell yourself short. You must believe!
Finally, the first review of TNP that I have come across, thanks danny!
@Randy Go in on it with a few friends. I can’t see anyone drinking an entire bottle of this in a session.
Seriously toying with buying one. But so damn expensive. Should I bite the bullet?