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Very interesting article Seth.  Which of the 10 have you tried?

Well, I tried to be as thorough in my tastings as possible, but some of these beers are a little on the hard-to-get side.  Like Kelpie?  I only wish I could try that one!  As far as the easy-to-gets, the Golden Touch, the EKU, La Terrible and the Smoked Porter are all easy to find and ones that I have tried.  My dad actually lives in Alaska so I've had the Smoked Porter a number of times. 

 The one I could probably get, but am a little scared of is the Utopia! That 24% ABV is a little intimidating!  Maybe I'll muster some courage and give it a try sometime soon...

Good list of beers.

 Could use some grammar editing though.

Samichlaus has no business being on any list with the word "Best" in the title. I used to work in a belgian tavern, and when someone wanted a disgusting beer to play a joke on their friends I'd give them a Samichlaus. There are many other better tasting beers with high alcohol content like Dogfish Head's 90 and 120 Minute IPAs (9% and 20% ABV respectively). I don't even like IPAs but they are better than that Samichlaus swill. It's the worst, I mean it, buy one and find out for yourself!!

Kelpie is a great beer, with an interesting flavor.

Find it and try it.

La Terrible is a French Canadian ale, and is 10.5% ABV: http://www.unibroue.com/products/terrible.cfm

you can order some of  these beers online to ship to your house at

www.hitimewine.net

The Utopias is $150 a bottle, so while you are working up the courage, work up some savings as well. If you want to try a stratospherically strong beer at a more reasonable price, check out some of the Dog Fish Head ones like World Wide Stout, Fort, Raison De' Extra, and 120 Minute IPA.

You don't know how bummed I am that there is one beer on the list that I have not had, but then again, I'm not going to drive to Illinois for Pizza Beer.

Ballsiest Beer not on the list? (and not extremely rare) Lets go with Alesmith Speedway Stout.

Unibroue is a brewer from the province of Quebec (Canada). The Frenchies make win not beer!

This is a pretty decent list of fine inebriators. Personally , I feel Old Foghorn (13% ABV) from the Anchor Brewing Company should have made the list. Two others would be Maredsous 8 and Maredsous 10 from the Maredsous Abbey in Belgium.

A very fine beer that would definitely belong here is Duvel, considered one of the ballsiest in my home country Belgium. Just 8.5% abv, but deep aromas, and amazing carbonation. Another fine candidate would be the "Bush Beer" (unrelated to George W.), at 12% abv., very strong-tasting as well. Most of the trappist ales are great, not just the Westvleteren, but also the Chimay Bleue , for instance.

Maredsous are ok, but brewed under license by a brewer, not in an abbey (while the trappist are always brewed by the monks).

The Utopias is $150

yeah right go check eBay

its like $300

also try

stone barly wine style ale (10%)

launitas undercover shutdown ale (9.75%)

and hog heaven barly wine style ale (10.75%) (have load of hops)

also try all the tripple IPAs you can....

(yes im from nor cal......)

Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree IPA (13%+ ABV)Founders Devil Dancer Triple IPA (13% ABV, 110+ IBUs)Three Floyds Dark Lord (too complex to explain)Surly Furious (death metal in a can)

10. There should be a space between "Dogfish Head's" and the comma preceding it. Was "clute or sniffer" intended to be "flute or snifter"?

9. The word "The" should not be capitalized in the phrase "Created in 2006, The beer".

8. There should not be an apostrophe in "meaning that it's flavor is rich and powerful".

7. "a robust beer, very sweet beer" would be less awkward if the first instance of "beer" were removed.

6. "dead-beat brother and senial grandfather" should be "deadbeat brother and senile grandfather".

5. "it's flavor and alcohol content" shouldn't have an apostrophe. "no body" should be "nobody". "distributors" should either be "distributor's" or "distributors'", depending on whether they have more than one. "and delicate beer" should be "a delicate beer".

1. "who's ABV smashes records" should be "whose ABV smashes records". "Sam Adam's dedication" should be "Sam Adams's dedication" (or "Sam Adams' dedication", depending on style).

Samiclaus is the worst beer I've ever tried - I don't see how it even made it onto this list.

Why go around and point out every grammar error in a post? You need to get a life! You must lead one boring life and have no friends either. Most people who go around and correct posts are either, a teacher (which we all know has no life),or some loser who needs to feel like he or she is better than everyone by pointing out every little mistake they made.  How fucking pathetic!

yeah but #1 beer maker sam adams is trying to sue my mayor, so screw em.
i'll go glasgowian with an 'AACH ME LADDIES!', and buy up #2's...

Yes, Midas Touch is incredible indeed. I concur with the post re: spelling and punctuation. I was not aware that the grammar police were patroling the internet so ruthlessly!
Additionally, I reccommend Victory Brewing's Golden Monkey; Thirsty Dog Siberean Night, Bison Chocolate Stout, Aventinus(a German Wheat Dopplebock), and remember Life is too short to drink bad beer.

Seth-What about Sam Adams Tripple Bock? I still have some 04 and 05 that are still nice;

Make that '94 and '95....