Sam Adams Limited Edition Utopia Beer

Luxist ^ | Jul 13th 2005 | N/A

[Jet Jaguar]

Sam Adams has created the limited edition Samuel Adams Utopias the latest in their Extreme Beers line of sipping beers. Samuel Adams is releasing 8,000 bottles of the kettle-shaped bottle reminiscent of the copper brewing kettles used by brewmasters for hundreds of years. The Utopia is 25% alcohol and therefore the "strongest beer in the world." For the 2005 edition, the brewers aged the beer in single-use bourbon casks to give the new brew a richer flavor than the 2003 release.

The Samuel Adams Utopias 2005 edition costs $100 per bottle which sounds pricey but the brew is meant to be consumed in two-ounce servings like a port or dessert wine.

[Jet Jaguar]

Saw this on History Channel's Modern Marvels focus on breweries.

Anybody tried it?

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

It sounds like Utopia if your Sam Adam’s accountant.

[JennysCool]

Sam, you made the price too big.

[SIDENET]

The Samuel Adams Utopias 2005 edition costs $100 per bottle

I bet it tastes like crap, but if someone wants to drop a Ben Franklin on it, be my guest.

[LibFreeOrDie]

The 2007 edition is $120-$140 a bottle, 27% alcohol by volume:

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071105005291&newsLang=en

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks for the update.

[EasySt]

Do I remember correctly that Sam Adams is owned by the same company as Miller? (of Folsom Street Fair support fame...)

[Jet Jaguar]

That I do not know.

[Jet Jaguar]

ping.

[EasySt]

My bad, I found the list on FR that I remember. Sam Adams isn’t on it....

Miller Lite
Miller Genuine Draft
Miller Genuine Draft Light
Miller High Life
Miller High Life Light
Sharp’s non-alcohol brew
Red Dog
Icehouse 5.0
Icehouse 5.5
Icehouse Light
Southpaw Light
Leinenkugel’s Original
Leinenkugel’s Light
Leinenkugel’s Red Lager
Leinenkugel’s Honey Weiss
Leinenkugel’s Apple Spice (seasonal)
Leinenkugel’s Berry Weiss
Leinenkugel’s Oktoberfest (seasonal)
Leinenkugel’s Creamy Dark
Leinenkugel’s Big Butt Doppelbock (seasonal)
Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat
Henry Weinhard’s Private Reserve
Henry Weinhard’s Blue Boar Pale Ale
Henry Weinhard’s Classic Dark
Henry Weinhard’s Northwest Trail Blonde Lager
Henry Weinhard’s Hefeweizen
Henry Weinhard’s Summer Wheat

Hamm’s
Hamm’s Draft
Hamm’s Special Light
Olde English 800 Malt Liquor
Olde English HG800
Olde English HG800 7.5
Magnum Malt Liquor
Mickey’s Malt Liquor
Mickey’s Ice
Milwaukee’s Best
Milwaukee’s Best Light
Milwaukee’s Best Ice
Foster’s Lager
Foster’s Special Bitter
Peroni Nastro Azzurro
Pilsner Urquell
Sheaf Stout
Sparks
Sparks Light
Sparks Plus 7%
Sparks Plus 6%
Steel Reserve Triple Export 8.1%
Steel Reserve High Gravity
Steel Reserve High Gravity 6.0
Steel Six

[GOP_Raider]

Beer Ping!

A low to medium ping list aimed at all of us who, well, love our beer…

FReepmail rzeznikj at stout or GOP_Raider to be added or struck from the list…

[GOP_Raider]

I had forgotten the beers on that list myself, other than they were Miller products. All things being equal though, Hamms might be the most disgusting beer ever brewed.

[hunter112]

I drove past the former Miller brewery in Tumwater, WA on a recent trip back to the NW, it's still closed. It used to be the Olympia brewery that was in full view of Interstate 5, and they brewed Hamms there. Agreed, even Oly Gold Light tasted better!

Had a friend in WA ask me if I could get Utopias for him, seems they won't ship it there. After I told him what it was going for online, he said forget it, unless he gets a big bonus!

[PeteB570]

I saw it also.

The whole show had me licking my lips.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Anybody tried it?

Maybe it’s just me, but it doesn’t sound good. 25% alcohol is simply too high to make a tasty beer, IMHO.

$100 is DEFINITELY too high a price! (”...is that for a whole keg?”)

But if someone bought me a bottle, I’d willingly “sip” some.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Hamms might be the most disgusting beer ever brewed

... and Hamms was the first beer I ever tried. Dad was a teetotaler (actually more like a militant prohibitionist!) so we didn’t have it in the house.

My best buddy was a paperboy. One Sunday morning on his route he found part of a six-pack of Hamm’s someone flung out of their car the night before (we presume).

So we found an isolated place, popped a can and had our first sip of beer. YUCK! Stunted my beer-drinking desires for several years. Little did I know that not ALL beer tastes that bad.

[Continental Soldier]

Over the past twenty years, there has been a veritable race among brewers and vintners to higher alcohol content in beers and wines. Why? Have the nightly drunks been complaining about the excessive time between the snap-top can or the cork and their euphoric, stumbling enlightenment?

[dynachrome]

Hamms. Recycled bear whizz!