A taste of Utopia: The ultimate beer
By Paul Sussman for CNN
"Probably the most intense and serious beer I have ever tried," enthuses one blogger. "Unique in every possible way," raves another. "You can smell it a mile away! This stuff is psycho!" trumpets a third.
Such are just some of the reactions to the taste of Samuel Adams' Utopias, at $100 a bottle not only the most expensive beer on the planet, but at 25 percent alcohol by some distance the strongest as well (it is listed as such in the Guinness Book of Records.)
Brewed by the Boston Beer Company under the Samuel Adams brand -- the latter named after one of the founding fathers of the U.S. -- Utopias is about as far away as you possibly can get from the average beer drinking experience.
"It is not only the strongest and most expensive beer in the world," explains Julie Bradford, editor of All About Beer Magazine, "More important, it challenges our understanding of what beer is.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas...beer/index.html
By Paul Sussman for CNN
"Probably the most intense and serious beer I have ever tried," enthuses one blogger. "Unique in every possible way," raves another. "You can smell it a mile away! This stuff is psycho!" trumpets a third.
Such are just some of the reactions to the taste of Samuel Adams' Utopias, at $100 a bottle not only the most expensive beer on the planet, but at 25 percent alcohol by some distance the strongest as well (it is listed as such in the Guinness Book of Records.)
Brewed by the Boston Beer Company under the Samuel Adams brand -- the latter named after one of the founding fathers of the U.S. -- Utopias is about as far away as you possibly can get from the average beer drinking experience.
"It is not only the strongest and most expensive beer in the world," explains Julie Bradford, editor of All About Beer Magazine, "More important, it challenges our understanding of what beer is.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas...beer/index.html
