Went to a Brewdog tasting session yesterday.
1. 5am Saint, 5% amber ale. Incredible aroma, a great start to the tasting.
2. Punk IPA, 6% pale ale. Ended up being my least impressive of the night, but still very drinkable and a good one for the masses to get ale out there.
3. Hardcore IPA, a double IPA, 9.2%. My favourite of the night. Very malty, almost a fizz on the tounge.
4. Paradox, originally an 8% stout thats left in a whisky cask and comes out around 10%. Ours was a cask from the Isle of Arran. Had an aroma nigh on identical to that of black treacle, and essentially tasted like drinking a nice single malt- we joked you could brand it as black whiskey and people wouldn't be able to tell.
5. Sink the Bismark! - the worlds strongest beer at 41% abv. Drank like a single measure of whiskey. Obviously a highlight, and was a completely different tasting experience. Was a pleasure to drink, something I would quite happily have as an alternative to whiskey when in the mood. The bottles come with stoppers and are storable for 10 years once open.
We also got to see the last bottle of the 55% run they did in taxidermy bottles:
http://www.brewdog.com/blog-article.php?id=341, ours was the stoat in the picture. They made 13 bottles which took 1700 litres of beer to produce, and involved medical equipment in the fermentation process!
Really nice guys and can't reccommend their beers enough, if you have the chance you should try and find an importer (Im in the UK, is easy for me!)
-SL