That's a good haul Dyz.

First up, I think your really going to like the Maximus. Might not be king of the mountain as far as IPAs go but it is a damn fine one if I do say so.

I highly recommend the Rogue Double Chocolate, it's a fine example of a what chocolate stout can be. Those three Ommegang beer are relatively expensive, but they are worth every penny. Of the three you listed the one I would recommend most highly is Three Philosophers. They're all good, but if I had to choose just one, that's the one.

The 8-wired and Brewdog Tactical Nuclear are ones I'm not familiar with. Tried looking them up on BA, but as far as the Brewdog Tactical Nuke all I could find was Tactical Nuclear Penguin, which is listed as an Imperial Stout not an IPA....

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/16315/54571

Based on name alone I must try this one!!!^^^^^

The 8-Wired came back as a brewer in NZ. If that's the one they have two IPAs....

Hopwired IPA.....
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22618/63896

And Fresh Hopwired IPA....
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22618/82649

Our resident Kiwi Hophead, Atomic Wedgy, can give you the lowdown on those I'm sure.

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That's damn near 80 proof, which for a beer is off the freaking chain.

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Not for hard liquor!

I had the 8wired Hopwired IPA... different from the northwest varieties of IPA... certainly less pine and cedar. Not bad, but different.

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Ahem...calm down....focus....I did do some more looking. Are you sure that was an IPA Dyz? That Tactical Nuclear Penguin Stout has that 32% ABV as well.

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Yea, I'm looking at $15/750 ml on the Ommegang or a 8-pack sampler (333 ml) for $42.

I've heard good things about 8-wired beers - fill me in AW!

And that's it - the Nuclear Penguin. It was listed as an IPA in the store, but that's definitely it. I would have been all over it but I can't pay $86 for a bottle of beer...

"Tactical Nuclear Penguin (32% ABV) - at the time, the strongest beer ever produced in a competition with German brewer Schorschbräu"

It's the Penguin - store must have just mislabled it.

Also, check this out:

In July 2010, BrewDog produced a 55% A.B.V. freeze-distilled beer called The End of History, with the bottles packaged in the stuffed dead bodies of small animals, priced at £500 and £700 each.[7][8][9] Only 12 bottles were produced; 11 for retail sale, with the other one going to internet video blog BeerTapTV.[10][11] BrewDog claim that this set new records not only for alcoholic strength in a beer, but also for price. Advocates for Animals called the gimmick 'perverse'.[7] The title "strongest beer of the world" has since fallen back to Mr. Tscheuschner from the Schorschbräu brewery in Germany, whose Schorschbock 57 boasts an ABV of 57.5%.[12]

What's the rating on that Tactical Nuclear, NWO?

F*ck, I paid $12 a bottle (333 ml) for Westy 12, to justify $86 it would have to be one hell of a beer.

It only scored a 79 from the rank and file at BA. The Alstrom Bros haven't given it a rating. So far it's only had 102 reviews so I wouldn't let those ratings scare me away. The price on the other hand is a bit scary, but still and all I'd give it a go. No guts no glory right?

Whilst we're talking about BrewDog, as I was looking at their beer lineup I was watching the videos they include with some of the listings. These guys are nuts....in a good way. Bomm you will most definitely want to avert your eyes at the 00:24 mark. You may not be able to handle the graphic violence depicted....

http://vimeo.com/15479031

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$86 is quite the leap of faith though... maybe if I had a better salary but that will buy me like four 6'ers of pretty much whatever I want and a two-six of Trois Pistoles.

Hate not having a flash player...

Leap of faith is good term for it. I do like to occasionally splurge on an experimental beer. Using the most current exchange rate that beer would in theory be $88 here...in theory. Actual cost may be much higher. I'd try it once just to experience something on the wild end of experimental.

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