BrewDog Launches World’s Strongest Canned Ale

Just over six months ago, we installed our futuristic canning line here at our Ellon HQ. Once all the Meccano-like pieces had been connected together we switched it on – and it has been running at a white-hot pace ever since. You guys sure like your beer in cans!

The demand for canned BrewDog craft beer has been nothing short of thunderous. Sure, we could sit back, rest on those laurels, watching the canning line whir away. Or, we could leave the laurels on whatever dusty shelf we last found them and do this instead.

A canned 12.7% ABV Russian Imperial Stout.

The biggest ale ever consigned to metal.

Yes, today we are announcing a hugely exciting new aluminium-clad marvel – a small-batch release set to push craft canning into the stratosphere. Black Eyed King Imp. In cans. The highest-ABV ale ever packaged in this manner, by anyone.

The batch of Black Eyed King Imp given this honour is a suitably epic one – brewed as the pre-Christmas snows swirled around our Ellon brewhouse last year, it has been racked in first fill bourbon whisky casks ever since, and then further aged on coffee beans and vanilla pods to create a Vietnamese coffee-inspired edition.

This final addition really highlights the oaky vanilla elements from the wood, and the balance of espresso and cacao adds layers of lustrous complexity to the finish, mingling with warming spicy brandy notes. Black Eye ‘Canned’ Imp is a beer to savour.

The world-beating Black Eyed King Imp release is live in our online shop right now, click here to grab yourself a can – although to be honest, you probably felt the jolt when it rolled off the line.

For those of you who’d like to partake in our bars, the cans will go on sale at 6pm on Thursday 15th October.

The strongest ale ever consigned to cans. Get ready to unleash the Imp…