2017 Samuel Adams Utopias 750ml

Utopias. Samuel Adams — the world’s strongest commercially available beer, produced biennially by Boston Beer Company in strictly limited quantities and presenting a multi-year blend of extreme beers aged in a range of spirit barrels — bourbon, Scotch, cognac, sherry, and port — that transforms the concept of what beer can be.

Utopias is brewed with a proprietary process that pushes fermentation far beyond the limits of standard beer: multiple yeast strains are used in sequence, each working to higher alcohol levels than the last, until the beer reaches 28% ABV — a proof level more common to fortified wine or cognac than beer. The result is a thick, viscous liquid that pours slowly from the distinctive copper-colored vessel and drinks nothing like conventional beer.