Samuel Adams Utopias 2023

Beer At Its Most Spirited

We make Utopias to challenge the perception of what beer can be. This boundary-bending, barrel-aged beer blurs the line between beer and fine spirit. At 28%, it’s the badass of our brewery. Its reputation puts it on every beer drinker’s bucket list.

The Devil Is In The Details

Utopias 2023 By The Numbers

Every ingredient chosen for Utopias is the highest quality available, designed to deliver you a drinking experience like no other.

Malt Varieties:

• Pale

• Munich

• Caramel 60

Color:

• SRM: 34

Alcohol By Volume:

• 28%

Hop Varieties:

• Halltertau Mittelfrueh

• Spalt Spalter

• Tettnang Tettnanger

Availability:

• Rare. Released every other year

• 25.4oz Custom Bottle

• Try specialty beer, wine, and liquor stores.

• It’s tough to find. Good luck!

Super Powers:

• Super Strength

• Better with age

Aging & Barrel Selection

Each release, we hand-select single-use bourbon casks from our friends at the award-winning Buffalo Trace Distillery. The beer then ages even longer in a variety of spirit barrels—including Bourbon, Wine, Port, and more—each gifting their unique flavors and history to Utopias.

For 2021, we used a combination of 86 different barrels. We began barrel-aging beer in 1993 with the Triple Bock. Today, our techniques have led to the lunatic fringe of brewing, creating one of the oldest, strongest, most extreme beers in the world.

A Potent Reserve, Held For Years

Some of the beer in this extreme reserve spends up to 30 years in bourbon barrels, which makes for a pretty tough customer. It’s inefficient, but the long road to your glass means Utopias has earned a complex character for a drinking experience above the ordinary.

Brewed Collaboratively Across Sam Adams Breweries

Utopias is a true community effort. Our head brewers want it to pass through every Sam Adams brewery. We brew, age, and blend in various locations across the country before a time-intensive hand-bottling process, where we personally make sure each bottle of Utopias is given special attention.

A Variety of Extraordinary Yeasts

Yeast: exhilarating, right? We agree. And it gets pretty radical when it comes to Utopias.

We use multiple yeast strains to make this beer, which is rare in brewing. We include one typically reserved for champagne, as well as another that’s such a ruffian we call it “ninja yeast”—created for its ability to survive and keep fermenting in extremely high alcohol environments like Utopias.

Meticulously Crafted

It takes a lot to make a beer that’s... well, a lot. Utopias is our craft maverick, brewed for the adventurous drinkers who need a premium craft beer experience. We spare no time, expense, or effort to create the most renowned and sought-after extreme beer you can get.

The Blend Is The Secret

Blended To Perfection

With each Utopias release, we explore uncharted territory with new blending techniques. And each new Utopias blend is made from an array of earlier years, some aged up to 30 years.

We finish the blend in a variety of casks that deepen the final flavor, making every bottle a unique, collectible experience.

The People Behind Utopias

This beer is just as special to all of us at Sam Adams as it is to you. For our brewers, it’s a passion project. For Sam Adams employees, it’s tradition.

Since Utopias was first released, each ceramic bottle gets a number on the bottom that corresponds with the order in which employees were hired. Founder and Brewer Jim Koch gets bottle number 1, of course.

Enjoy Every Sip

Utopias drinks like no other beer on the planet. Serve at room temperature and pour an ounce or two of this ruby-black liquid into a Utopias glass or brandy snifter. Sip, savor, appreciate.

TASTING NOTES

A deep, rich malty smoothness reminiscent of a vintage Port, Cognac, or rare, fortified French aperitif.

Flavors of:

• Honey

• Vanilla

• Peach

• Wine grapes

• Rich woodiness

• A subtly peaty smokiness that rounds out the complexity of the overall blend.