New Sam Adams beer is illegal to sell in 15 states

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sam Adams has a new beer, and I don't even
know if we can consider this a beer because it's
so potent. It's illegal in fifteen states due to its
alcohol content.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
That should be their That should be their whole marketing campaign.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Is that possibly is the marketing game.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
We're Sam Adams and our new beer is illegal in
fifteen states.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
It has a thirty percent alcohol by volume percentage thirty percent.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
So let's like light beer is like usually about three percent.
Your average beer is maybe four or five percent. Your
fancy IPAs can get up into six seven eight percent.
This is thirty percent. That is sixty proof. That is
just about the same as fireball.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
So it's called sam Adams Utopias and it was originally
debuted in two thousand and one and they release it
every couple of years. It's aged in oak barrels right
finished in casks that have been blending for thirty years.
And when they originally debuted it, it had a twenty

(01:01):
four percent alcohol by volume percentage, and then in twenty
three it was up to twenty eight percent, and now
in twenty twenty five it's at thirty percent. Check this out.
They only sell a few bottles there are numbered bottles.
They're shaped like copper brewing kettles. The cost for one
bottle of beer twenty four ounce bottle two hundred and

(01:23):
forty dollars per bargain. And they say you're supposed to
drink it in a small sniffed or glass at room temperature.
That to me, that's not a beer.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'd chug it. It's two hundred and forty bucks. Gonna
shotgun the whole thing and plyle it.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Right on down and then it would be naptime. Yes,