Beer That Will Get You Drunk the Fastest

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Nov 6, 8:55AM EST

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A bottle of Budweiser (also known as Bud Heavy) can have an alcohol content of about 5%. For Bud Light, the figure is closer to 4.1%. Some beers have an alcohol level of over 12% and will get someone drunk much faster if they drink a bottle of the same size as the Bud. The Snake Venom beer’s alcohol content is 67.5%, the highest in the world. The figure is also higher than most liquors. (The 20 craft beers Americans like the most.)

Snake Venom has several ingredients that most beers do not have. According to Brewmeister, “It is brewed in Moray from smoked, peated malt using two varieties of yeast, one beer and one Champagne.” A secret to increasing alcohol content is to freeze the beer several times to eliminate much of the water in the beer, which the cold turns to crystals.

Scotland’s Keith Brewery makes Snake Venom beer. It carries the warning: “This beer is not for the faint-hearted. It is recommended to enjoy in small doses of 35ml measures.” The brewery has a novel promotion. People can order a bottle for 50 euros ($54) and get a free beer glass.

The same brewery makes Brewmeister Armageddon with an alcohol content of 65%. Depending on who is counting, there are four other beers with an alcohol content of over 50%:
Koelschip Start the Future (60%), BrewDog and Schorschbräu Strength in Numbers (57.8%), Schorschbräu Schorschbock 57 (57%) and BrewDog End of History (55%).

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.