How do you like your beer?

[Raux]

The strongest and most expensive beer ever created sold out within hours Friday, a Scottish brewery said, as they courted controversy by packaging the bottles inside the bodies of stuffed animals.

BrewDog, the self-described maverick brewery, presented the beer -- which contains a record 55 percent alcohol -- inside the bodies of dead squirrels and stoats.

Animal rights activists rushed to condemn the stunt.

"It's pointless and it's very negative to use dead animals when we should be celebrating live animals," Advocates for Animals policy director Libby Anderson told BBC Scotland.

"This seems to be a perverse idea."

BrewDog said the limited edition Belgian ale -- made with juniper berries and dubbed "The End of History" -- was also the costliest beer ever sold.

The squirrel bottles cost 700 pounds (1,000 dollars, 840 euros) each and the seven stoat bottles went for 500 pounds a pop.

All sold out within four hours of going on sale, BrewDog managing director James Watt told AFP.

Watt said the controversial drink was the last in a line of experimental brews, explaining: "For the final installment in the strong beer series, we wanted to create something epic, something monumental."

He said there were no plans to come up with a beer to beat this record, insisting: "We're quite happy at 55 percent."

As for the taste, Watt described "The End of History" as a "complex" beer with a multitude of flavours including honey, mint and cinnamon.

He recommended sipping the drink "much like you would a malt whiskey", served up in a spirit glass rather than a pint glass.

[badgalbetty]

lost for words.

[RAT900]

not already used, cold, and preferably not served from a dead animal's carcass

[Speedbag]

not already used, cold, and preferably not served from a dead animal's carcass

+1

And, most importantly, it should be beer-flavored.

[superjohn]

How many did they "sample" prior to coming up with the marketing campaign?

[RAT900]

How many did they "sample" prior to coming up with the marketing campaign?

road kill or the beverages?

[rgramjet]

At least they arent using the actual carcass to house the beer.  The hide is just a cozy.  Prolly to keep the beer at "perfect room temperature". 

Bear Grylls used an emptied out Rattlesnake to store his own urine for drinking while in the desert.

[NoisyDante]

Bear Grylls used an emptied out Rattlesnake to store his own urine for drinking while in the desert.

What's wrong with that? 

[rgramjet]

Nuthing whatsoever in my book.  A brothers gotta do what a brothers gotta do!

[zarn02]

I would like to try this.

And I would like someone else to pay.

[mstevens]

In the case of this particular poll, I think "boobies" is, for the first time ever, absolutely the wrong choice.

[zarn02]

I have no doubt in my mind that there exists (hopefully fake. Really fake, not just "fake" fake.) boobies that dispense booze.

Japan, probably.

[Turf]

Bear Grylls used an emptied out Rattlesnake to store his own urine for drinking while in the desert.

I'm really hoping that there is never a point in my life where I piss into a bored out snake to solve any problems

...something about holding it out there in front of a snake seems like an idea I'd never be comfortable with, dead or alive.

[pennyrobber]

Are they recyclable?

[WarrenJ]

Biodegradeable