This was a taster fully a year in the making and well worth it. Sam Adams Utopias 2003 is officially listed as the strongest beer in the world in the Guinness Book of World Records at 25.6%abv. BugMan1109 scored a bottle at a descent price last year when the 2005 series came out and we were able to actually have some on both an empty palate and after a mouth-watering slab of moo cow. I could go off on a mind numbing rant about what this beer was like ending up in a tangential plane off in time where my small snifter never runs empty and still not convey what this experience was truly like. NO carbonation in the 2 ounces I had. It had sugar legs like a wine when rolled around the glass. The aroma was strong alcohol on a soft bed of maple sweetness. A great taste of extreme malt, vanilla and oak barrel hits the side of your tongue. Utopias are bottled in a ceramic decanter with copper finish using 11 year old casks to blend it much like scotch. Three types of noble hops are used: spalt spalter, hallertau mittlefruh and tettnang tettnanger. A monkey ton of malts: crystal, moravian and bamberg smoked and a variety of yeast including a strain normally reserved for champagne. This particular batch has 25.4%abv and the bottle was 2740/8000.
