Samuel Adams Introduces $150 Beer
By: Anthony Adragna
Published: May 19, 2011

If you're in the mood for a luxury drink, how about a beer from Samuel Adams that retails for $150 a bottle? Samuel Adams Utopias should be "savored like vintage fortified wine or fine cognac, this strong, rich, uncarbonated dark beer is best served as a two-ounce pour at room temperature in a snifter glass." 
The beer is 27 percent alcohol by volume, earning it the world record for "strongest commericially available beer" when it first emerged in 2002. To make it, Samuel Adams crafts small batches and lets them age in barrels in their Boston brewery. The result is a dark, strong beer. 
The finished product combines liquids that have been aging in barrels for up to 18 years and has distinct "vanilla, maple and cocoa notes, and it offers an aroma of ginger and cinnamon." Just 53 barrels of the brew have been made (all at the flagship brewery in Boston) and have hit the stores in time for Craft Beer Week. 
Would you purchase this beer?