A beer so excessive in ABV that it’s unlawful in 15 states, Samuel Adams Utopias is again for 2023.
The thirteenth launch on this line clocks in at 28% ABV. Its ruby black shade and lack of carbonation recommend a classic port, whereas its excessive alcohol stage begins to method a Cognac.
“We’re delighted to announce the arrival of Utopias 2023, which continues our custom of peculiar beer lovers,” says Samuel Adams Founder and Brewer Jim Koch. “It’s brewed not distilled, and it’s undoubtedly beer!”
“Within the Nineteen Nineties, the massive brewers competed to make lighter and lighter beers, however I used to be drawn to the darker, richer finish of the beer spectrum,” he provides. “We brewed Samuel Adams Double Bock in 1988, after which a Triple Bock in 1994. These beers are pioneers within the Excessive Beer motion. After the 1999 launch of Millenium, we challenged ourselves to create an excellent stronger, extra distinctive beer. Enter Utopias in 2001!”
Now launched each two years, Utopias is a mix of a number of batches of the brewery’s earlier Excessive Beers, which age additional in a number of varieties of barrels. Utopias has at all times aged in charred whiskey casks, and this yr the Sam Adams brewers expanded the sorts of barrels to discover totally different flavors.
Along with American bourbon barrels, the brewery used imported Scotch and peated whisky barrels. Peated Scotch barrels added a observe of smoke, in response to the brewery, whereas Ruby Port and Carcavelos casks from Portugal and Cognac barrels from France introduced darkish fruit notes. New to Utopias 2023 are barrels from Pineau des Charentes: a fortified French aperitif wine from western France.
Commercial
Utopias is brewed and fermented on the Samuel Adams Cincinnati Brewery, moved to the cask room on the Samuel Adams Pennsylvania Brewery for ageing, then sampled and blended with earlier classic Utopias within the Samuel Adams Bier Keller on the Boston Brewery. Lastly, it ships to the Dogfish Head Brewery in Delaware for bottling.
Utopias comes packaged in ceramic bottles made by Brazilian artisans that seem like a traditional copper brew kettle.
This barrel-aged beer has really useful serving measurement of a two-ounce pour at room temperature in a sniffer. Samuel Adams Utopias 2023 rolls out to pick out retailers beginning October 30 for a instructed retail value of $240 per 24.5-oz. bottle.
Many states have legal guidelines regulating the utmost authorized ABV for beer. Accordingly, Samuel Adams Utopias 2023 is illegitimate in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia.
This follows information of Samuel Adams seeing two of its different manufacturers enter our Beer Development Manufacturers Corridor of Fame this yr.
