When I first brewed Samuel Adams Boston Lager® twenty-nine years ago, my hope was to offer beer lovers distinct, full-flavored beer brewed right here in America. Many people had never had a beer drinking experience like that - there were few microbrews or craft beers available then. The taste of Boston Lager expanded the very definition of beer for many of those drinkers. Over the years, we have continued to push the boundaries of beer, with "extreme" beers such as Samuel Adams® Millennium and InfiniumM. I'm proud to continue that tradition by introducing the 2013 edition of Samuel Adams Utopias®, a brew that continues to challenge the notion of what a beer can be. Served at room tempera-ture, this uncarbonated brew has an alcohol content over 27%, and rivals the complexity and flavor of the world's finest Ports.

Sherries, and Cognacs. Pour an ounce or two into a glass and note the aroma. Take a sip and enjoy.

To brew this beer we began with the world's finest, all-natural ingredients, including a combination of our two-row pale malt blend, Caramel and Munich malts that impart a rich, ruby-black color. A subtle yet distinct hop character from three varieties of Noble hops - Spalt Spalter, Hallertau Mittelfruch, and Tettnang Tettnanger, adds to the complexity and balances the sweetness of the malt and alco-hol. During fermentation, we also use yeast normally reserved for Champagne.

This extraordinary brew is the result of complex and carefully timed brewing processes. With each batch of Utopias, we release a completely new brew. This year's release is a blend of batches, some having been aged up to 20 years in a variety of barrels. We aged a portion of the beer in hand-selected, single-use bourbon casks from the award-winning Buffalo Trace Distillery. This additional aging process enhances the beer's distinct vanilla and maple notes. This release also spent.

time in Port casks from Portugal; which contribute elegant, dark fruit aromas. For the 2013 edition of Utopias we included an additional clement of complexity and flavor by blending in a portion of our barrel aged Kosmic Mother Funk® (KMF).

KMF is a wild ale that's been aged in Hungarian oak tuns for over a year, creating bright fruit notes like cherries and plums and just a hint of sourness and earthiness.

The resulting release of Utopias has notes of dark fruit, a subtle sweetness, and a deep rich malty smoothness reminiscent of a rich vintage Port, old Cognac, or fine Sherry.

We packaged your bottle of Utopias in a unique ceramic decanter modeled after the copper brew kettles used by brewmasters for centuries. We bottled only 100 wooden barrels.