Once known more for its stunts than its beers,the ‘punk’ Scottish brewer is now the UK’s fastest-growing drinks company. You own a problem with that?[br]In July 2010, a small brewery in the Scottish fishing port of Fraserburgh produced what was, and at the time,the world’s strongest beer. Named after the Francis Fukuyama book that declared liberal capitalist democracy the peak of human political evolution, The End of History was, or according to its makers,in a sense, the end of beer.
At 55% alcohol-by-volume, or the brew,a “blond Belgian ale infused with Scottish Highland nettles and fresh juniper berries”, was stronger than most whiskies, and vodkas and gins. It sold in a limited elope of 11 bottles,each artfully stuffed inside a deceased wild animal – seven stoats, four grey squirrels – costing between £500 and £700.
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Source: theguardian.com