Boston Beer’s Koch on Samuel Adams Utopias ABV: “we could do 40, 50% tomorrow”
We could do 40, 50% tomorrow. You just get an ice cream freezer, put dry ice in it and churn it for about an hour or two and you’ll freeze about 2/3 of the water out of it. So we would end up with about 60% alcohol (laughs). Honestly, we can’t get much higher than where we’re at. We’re at a wall. It was about 28% last time, 29% this time with the new release of Utopias. I think the highest alcohol we have in any barrel is about 33%. So we actually blend down because this is not about hitting an ABV number, it’s about flavor.
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Breweries: The Boston Beer Company
Beers: Samuel Adams Utopias, Samuel Adams Utopias 10th Anniversary
