Anyone every tried this stuff? I saw a bottle FT on another forum and looked it up (I had never heard of it before).

I like beer as much as the next guy but a $200, 750ml, 27% abv, bottle of it.... Idk about all that!

^Queue the DB rich guys taunting us reply.

Sam Adams Utopia is my "right" under ObumbleCare!!

lolz

DD™

For that amount of money I could buy about a dozen 30 packs of PBR. 360 beers, 4,320 fluid ounces. At least enough for a weekend.

Ahemmm...homebrew...just sayin'!

Combine a Sam Adams and a Gurkha and you can have 1,754,329 different combinations.

check out "tactical nuclear penguin"

^ DAMN! Ever had any? Im just really curious how this stuff tastes.. I cant be good..

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NINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i've tried it. Some guy at a local beer club brought it in in celebration of his end school semester and 100th beer in 100 day party.

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#1. I believe there may already have been a post on these boards about this stuff. A search might yield useful info. for you.

#6 You sure about that? I think you forgot to carry a "1" in there.

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brian, no i havent. way too much money to me. and no i cant imagine it would be that good. they reach the high ABV by freezing the water and pouring out the "beer" over and over until they get it (i think) 32% ABV.

highest i can go is 12% with the barleywines.

11: I couldnt find anything but just cause your damn huskies won ill take your **** this time 🙂 !

12: Ya thats kinda what I was thinking... If I want something that strong ill grab my whiskey!

#13 Hmmm...I didn't save the link, but I'm 98.2% sure there has been a post on this. Seems like it wasn't all that long ago either.

BTW, FWIW, my Huskies lost tonight, so no Elite Eight for them. Ugly game. It was basically a matter of which team was going to end up being the least inept. WV was awful in the first half, which ended with the Huskies up by one. The Huskies came out in the second half and played like the team that was in the pits in Jan and Feb, and not like the team that won the Pac 10 tourney and then later its first 2 games into the 65.

One of those games where everyone in it will probably want to burn the tape.

It's more like a cognac than a beer, so if you want "beer taste" you won't find it in Utopias.

Bottle is kinda lame too, porcelain reproduction of a tank with these little sliding doors on it. Like something a little girl would collect. Beer goes in glass bottle with a cap or cork, porcelain is for ****ting in.

Sam Adams flavor the month of April - "Easter Egg".

IMO, SA is novelty beer - hate it.

Guys, the drink that Kimon referenced above^, "tactical nuclear penguin", is a cold distilled beverage.

That is when you take a beer, take the temp down real cold, like maybe -10F, and take out the ice. That will leave you with a strong beer, and if down several times it will leave you with a very strong beer. It's not really "beer" persee because its been distilled, but you get the idea.

Sam Adams Utopias is NOT a distilled beer. It's a beer that has been specially brewed using techniques that Boston Brewing came up with to get it stronger than anyone has previously. I believe they are using some very special strains of yeast, and pitching at very high cell counts, to achieve the beers alcohol content and complexity.

This thread has no validity until doughnutboy chimes in.

Also, me wants this beer!

Unless it takes like that disgusting SA cherry wheat. Yuck!

Blopez, they are great and btw, I'm JG ( the buyer of said forum thread)

Samuel Adams Utopias, which went on sale in February 2002, was claimed to be the strongest commercial beer in the world. The 2002 release contained 24% alcohol by volume, which has increased in subsequent vintages up to 27% ABV in the 2009 release. Utopias was preceded by Millennium, a single release brew made by Sam Adams in 1999, at 21% alcohol.

Utopias is made with caramel, Vienna, Moravian and Bavarian smoked malts, and all four varieties of noble hops: Hallertauer Mittelfrüh, Tettnanger, Spalter, and Saaz hops. The beer is aged in scotch, cognac and port barrels for the better part of a year.

The beer was packaged in a copper-finished kettle designed to resemble those used in the brewing process. 8,000 twenty-four-ounce bottles of Utopias were produced in all, with a suggested price of US$100 a bottle. The beer is considered by some to be more comparable to brandy, sherry, cognac or port than to other beers.

Because of legal restrictions, Samuel Adams Utopias is not offered in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, or West Virginia. [10]

Utopias is still being made and have been released in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009. Samuel Adams produced just 12,000 bottles for the 2007 holiday season.[11][12] Most recently, 53 barrels (approximately 9,000 bottles) were released in November 2009, at a suggested retail price of $150.

Source:Wikipedia

Beer rant on:

I am a fan of many of Sam Adams brews, they make an excellent Cream Stout and Honey Porter, but I think they sometimes get a little carried away with the "art" of their craft.

I'm sure others would disagree but I see no benefit from trying to create something like these uber-high alcohol syrupy brews. It seems like most of the micro and quasi-micro brewers take at least one shot at impressing us with how much alcohol they can squeeze into a "beer", whether it's an ultra heavy bock or some Belgian-style derived drek or similar concotion. To me, there is a point where it stops being beer and becomes something ranging from weird to unbearably foul. In the latter category I'd like to present UKU 28 as Exhibit 1. Surely one of the most undrinkable potions ever to be sold in the beer aisle. Don't believe me? Try some and get back to me.

I love good beer. To me, these type of brews, not only aren't worth the money, they just taste bad.

Beer rant off.

man, I can be long winded. I hope nobody was bored enough to read all that....