Very Strong Beers in Cans

I have had eighteen beers (well photos of eighteen beers anyway), that have 10% or more alcohol in them. I have covered the Top Ten on here before but here are the strongest ones you can get in cans.

John Martin, Gordon Finest Titanium from Belgium

14% deep gold colour with no head, sweet malt aroma, sweet warming alcohol taste.

This is the strongest beer I have had to date, it was more like having a whisky than a beer, I will not be buying it again.

Grolsche Bierbrouwerij, Amsterdam Maximator from Holland

11.6% , good head, not much aroma, don't remember much about it but I do not think it was that unplesent.

Got it just because it was in the fridge in the campsite shop.

Grolsch, Kanon from Holland

11.6% gold colour with a thin head, grass aroma, sweet malt taste and a very strong alcohol and slightly sticky mouth feel.

John Martin, Gordon Finest Chrome from Belgium

10.5% gold colour with a very thin head, sweet aroma, sweet and fizzy strong alcohol taste.

The photo was taken on the 6th of July 2013 but I have only just opened it, over a year latter on the 19th of July 2014. Had it again last night.

Faxe, 10% Extra Strong from Denmark

10% gold colour with a thin head, sweet fruity (apple?) malt aroma, strong carbonated alcohol taste.

A big can full of very strong beer.

Gulpener, Gladiator from Holland

10.0% gold colour with a nice head, malt aroma, malt and strong alcohol taste.

Point Beers

Stevens Point, make many many beers in the USA but in the UK they are not that easy to find, here are the three that I have had.

Stevens Point, Point IPA from the USA

 

5.6% amber colour with a nice head, nice aroma with some toffee and liquorish but mainly hoppy taste.

Stevens Point, Point Amber Lager from the USA

 

4.7% amber colour with a nice head and it had a nice aroma and taste.

Stevens Point, Point Pale Ale from the USA

 

5.4% gold colour with a thin head, with a nice bitter citrus aroma and taste.

Although I am still useless at describing the taste of beers, these were not bad at all and this is true of lots of beers from the USA.  The USA beers gets some bad reviews from Europeans but I find them to be really nice.

North East Beers

We had four relatively big local breweries, Nimmo in Castle Eden, Vaux in Sunderland, Camerons in Hartlepool and Newcastle in (yes you are right) Newcastle.  All of them were sold off at one time or another and Vaux and Nimmo are now closed down completely.

Saying that you can still get all of their top selling beers.  There are other brewers in the North East but they are relatively new, this is for the older beers that where available when I was a kid on Teesside.

Here are the top beers from these four brewers, of course the reviews are on the beers as they are now.

Camerons (Nimmo's), Castle Eden Ale from England

4.2% pale amber with a good head, some fruitiness in the aroma, an average bitter beer but not bad at all, now brewed by Camerons in Hartlepool.

Maxim (Vaux), Samson from England

4.0%, good head, fruity aroma and a sweet fruity malt taste, was one of my favourite draught beers, until the Vaux brewery in Sunderland was closed and demolished in 1999. It was resurrected by a company called The Double Maxim Beer Company now just Maxim and is sweeter than I remembered.

Camerons, Strongarm from England

 

4.0% ruby red colour with a very good head, fruity malt aroma, fruity caramel bitter taste, also good in bottles. My hometown beer, you love it or hate it, I love it.

S&N, Newcastle Brown Ale from England

4.7% brown in colour with a thin head, no detectable aroma, slightly sweet with a hint of caramel, over carbonated and for me has an odd after taste, not quite as bad as I remembered but not worthy of its reputation, I will not be buying it again, only bought this one as it was on offer and for the photo. Shame to slag off a local beer but then again it isn't local any more, now only made in Tadcaster, Yorkshire

la Goudale, Beers

This is the beer that I had missed and not posted on here, together with another from the same brewery in France.

Gayant, la Goudale Witt-Blanche from France

 

4.9% pale cloudy yellow colour colour with a thin head, bit of citrus in the aroma, slightly sweet citrus taste, not bad at all if you are looking for something different.

Gayant, La Goudale from France

 

7.2%, gold colour with a thin head, malty and hoppy aroma, slightly fruity taste, you can taste the alcohol but it is nice. It does come in larger 75cl bottles as well.

This is what I wrote in France when I first had this one.  Drank it out of the bottle whilst barbecuing, so do not know about the colour or head, drank all six, so do not know anything else about it either.    I do remember saying that I would not buy it again.

Last Weeks Ordinary Beers

Last weekend we only had two new beers but we did have plenty more that we had had before and liked very much indeed.  One of these "plenty more" beers has not been covered before and there was no photo of it ether, very strange, just shows how my brain has been effected.

I will cover that other one in a new post but the first two were very very ordinary.

Baytown, Baytown Bitter from England

 

4.0% amber colour with a good head, quite a good normal bitter aroma and taste.

Direct Beers, Knob Head from England

 

4.8% gold in colour with a thin head, looks and tastes like lager.

First Week of 2015

Well I have had two new beers this week, I did have plenty of beer between Christmas and New Year but nothing new.  Well all of that is tosh, I left my camera at my mothers and theses are from between Christmas and New Year, and I just got the camera back.

Shepherd Neame, Artesian Dark Ale from England

 

3.8% deep amber with a thin head, not much aroma but the taste was ok but a little bit watery, although it is a week beer .

Direct Beers, Cat Piss from, England

 

4.8% gold colour with a good head, some lemon in the aroma, slightly sweet taste.  Another one of these beers, they are not bad but I would say very ordinary, although the labels and names are different.

Christmas Beers 2014

Didn't have many new Christmas Beers this year but did manage a few, so here they all are, unless there are some on the other camera, which I should have back soon.

Jennings, Red Breast from England

 

4.5% red in colour with a thin head, not much aroma, not a bad taste but not for Christmas.

St Austell (Nicholson's), Saint Nich's from England

4.5% looks like Strongarm, dark amber with a good white head, it had a Christmassy smell and a bitter dry Christmassy taste.

Hardys & Hansons, Rocking Rudolph from England

 

4.2% deep amber in colour but with a poor head, a malty aroma and a little bit of a Christmas taste, ok but that's it.

Direct Beers, Yule Log from England

 

5.0% dark brown colour with a nice head, fruity aroma and a nice Christmas taste, not bad for the last one, even if the label is a bit dodgy.