{"id":14595,"date":"2003-09-08T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/08\/extreme-beer\/"},"modified":"2003-09-08T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T17:03:00","slug":"extreme-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/08\/extreme-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Beer!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sam<\/a>The Sacramento Bee<\/em> interviewed Jim Koch<\/a>, “sixth-generation brewmaster and founder of the Boston Beer Company<\/a>, the New England brewery best known for Samuel Adams Boston Lager” about the release of the new Samuel Adams Utopias MMII<\/a> beer, which is being marketed as the world’s strongest beer with 25% alcohol content. It is being sold as a collectible, limited-edition run of 8,500 24-ounce bottles, “aged for roughly two years in bourbon, scotch, cognac and port barrels and packaged in a kettle-shaped, copper-colored bottle” and selling for $100 a bottle (!). Although “legally, technically and practically, it’s beer,” “don’t expect it to taste like beer.” The Sacramento Bee<\/em> held an informal taste test, concluding that “Utopias ‘is obviously not a quaffer – it’s a sipper,’” and that “after tasting this extreme beer, ‘you’ll probably want a real one.’” Reviews at The Beer Advocate<\/em><\/a> were decidedly more positive, but I don’t think I’ll be trying this any time soon…<\/p>\n

When I read this article, the first thing I thought of was The Simpsons<\/i> episode (Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk<\/a><\/i>) in which Homer bought one bottle of Henry K. Duff’s Private Reserves beer for $25 when he prematurely sold his stock in the nuclear plant… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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The Sacramento Bee interviewed Jim Koch, “sixth-generation brewmaster and founder of the Boston Beer Company, the New England brewery best known for Samuel Adams Boston Lager” about the release of the new Samuel Adams Utopias MMII beer, which is being marketed as the world’s strongest beer with 25% alcohol content. It is being sold as … <\/p>\n

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