The alcohol content, and the price, are pretty steep.
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Samuel Adams Utopias beer will be illegal in 15 states
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Probably won’t be selling that at Kinnick. Hell, the best beer I could find at Kinnick last Saturday was freaking Boomtown. If their goal was to keep me sober, it worked.
But don't bother looking for it in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont or West Virginia. Utopias are illegal in those states because they contain 28% alcohol by volume, more than five times the potency of typical US brews.
Oregon shows up on some odd lists.
I guess Montana is a surprise but not the Bible Belt.
Oregon shows up on some odd lists.
I guess Montana is a surprise but not the Bible Belt.
I think I’ll need a 12-pack for the next FSU game.
What was your pretentious ass looking for?
And it's expensive — the suggested retail price is $240 for 25.4-ounce bottle.
I can get about 18-20 Prairie Artisan Ales for that, of various flavors, that will be every bit as good.
Probably way too bourbon-y.
I've got some Goose Island Bourbon County that's 15-16%, and even that is a little too heavy. I'll stick with the Prairie Ales. John's Grocery usually has a stash of them in IC.
Pretty good stuff. Mixes really well with Busch Light.
Sounds like a job for Snowman and the Bandit.
WTF, why is it so expensive? They think just because it’s 28% it’s some sort of novelty and they can charge >$200? Not Your Father’s Root Beer has a 19.5% ABV for about $4 a bottle.
I agree with this. Was fortunate to have a 5 ounce pour a few years ago. Tasted like I was sipping maple syrup.
It is a very good beer.
It’s the best they had, which is the point.
A bottle is just north of $200, typically.
The beer is pretty tasty, but you certainly wouldn't make a steady diet of it. It's still, so it's no problem to have a sip and recap the bottle for another day. It saves for years. I'd think of it more like a cognac than a beer in terms of how it's typically drank - a couple fingers after dinner.
Stupid beer laws in many states prohibit beers above a certain ABV. They must be sold as hard liquor, which has a different tax rate. Iowa had a limit of something like 8% until relatively recently. That said, it's not that uncommon for brewers to mislabel the ABV on beers to avoid such laws.
I was really looking for the cost of a 5 ouncer. It's somewhere north of $50, I assume. I've paid that for a scotch and that's generally about 2 oz so not really as bad as it sounds...if the beer is outstanding.
It's not so much the labeling as it is how it's processed through the state. Stupid three tiered system makes everything more complicated than it needs to be.
I don't know that I've ever seen it sold at a bar, so it's hard to say. But there's about 5 pours in a bottle (750mL), so $50 per would be near retail. I'd guess a bar would likely close to double that.
Nope
Just found out about them a few years back, and they make World Class stouts you can buy about anywhere.
I've drank from a bottle that was months old and it didn't oxidize like beer. There's no hoppy character to fade or get skunky...it's more like a super barleywine. It really acts more like a weak liquor than a beer.
Maybe the high alcohol content lowers the level of change, but it's not going to taste the same months later.
Kept sealed "in bottle" most BA stouts age best for about a year or two, then they start losing some of the flavors and smoothness. Not like 10 yr old scotch or something. That's what the beer nerds tell me, anyway.
I've always found the prohibition-lite laws (dry counties, Sunday restrictions, etc) to be such a head scratcher. We advertise alcohol in every corner of 50 states, but put these odd hurdles in the way that does nothing but make it a pain in the ass for grown ass adults in many areas of the country to buy something that's 100% legal. If they somehow prevented alcoholism or drunk driving, that'd at least be something. But I'm pretty sure they do nothing except having the opposite effect (e.g. people driving from "dry" places to "wet" places). I think it's still true in Illinois that you can't buy alcohol until noon on Sunday, as if everyone needs to be in church and not thinking about alcohol.
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