I would have taken a sip (come on, they must have supped)

From Freetail News (of course this was an April Fool's Day joke -- posted here on the 2nd. Ha ha.):

"Freetail Sets Record by Brewing Strongest, Hoppiest Beer Ever

Freetail Brewing Co. has announced that it has created the strongest, most hoppy beer ever weighing in at an astonishing 92.73% alcohol by volume and 11,312 IBUs, far surpassing recent achievements by Scottish brewer BrewDog and Danish brewer Mikkeller.

To create the beer, Freetail used a patented cryogenic freeze distillation process they hope to eventually sell to ethanol fuel production facilities. “We’ve developed a very alcohol tolerant strain of yeast to produce our high-gravity beers, but even it stalls out at around 13%,” said Freetail Founder and CEO Scott Metzger. “At that point we begin our cold distillation process. We got the inspiration for our process by watching Encino Man starring Brendan Frasier and Pauly Shore.”

Metzger went on to describe the hopping process. “I hoped this would never be made public, but I’ll go ahead and spill the beans,” Metzger said with a sheepish grin. “We were responsible for the 2007-08 hop shortage. To make one half barrel of finished beer we used over four thousand pounds of cascade hops in 120 barrels of wort. We could have just as easily used a higher alpha hop at an earlier stage of the boil, but we didn’t want to lose all that terrific flavor and aromas obtained by this American noble variety.”

To mark the achievement, Metzger and Head Brewer Jason Davis ceremoniously poured the beer down the drain together."

That does, however, leave my tongue feeling a little numb. I suppose it was a virtuoso performance.