US EditionSamuel Adams Releases Utopias 2025, Its Strongest Beer yet. Can You Buy It in Iowa?
Samuel Adams' 30% ABV Utopias 2025 breaks new strength records but cannot be sold in 15 states due to legal alcohol limits, including New Hampshire.
- Samuel Adams unveiled Utopias 2025, a limited-edition beer with 30% alcohol by volume, making it illegal to sell in 15 states, including New Hampshire.
- Started in 2001, the Utopias series reached its 14th iteration as Jim Koch, co-founder and brewer of the Boston Beer Company, described it as a decades-long pursuit of craft.
- Sam Adams recommends a serving size of one or two ounces for this uncarbonated beer, which is bottled in handcrafted ceramic bottles at a suggested retail price of $240 per 24.5-ounce vessel.
- The release is legal in 35 states and available in specialty beer and liquor stores, while New Hampshire caps beer ABV at 14%, restricting its sale there.
- Typical beers, mass-produced examples around about 5% ABV, contrast sharply with the brewer's characterization that the product 'blurs the line between beer and fine spirits,' fueling debate over classification of extremely high-ABV brews.
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Samuel Adams, Boston brewery known for his career in craft beer, released Utopias 2025, the most recent edition of his series of extreme beers aged in barrels. With 30% alcohol per volume (ABV), it is one of the strongest beers in the world and its sale is prohibited in 15 U.S. states, including New Hampshire, Vermont, Alabama and Georgia, where state laws limit the ABV of beer. Utopias 2025 is the fourteenth delivery of this series, started in …
Samuel Adams' 30 percent 'Utopias' release illegal in 15 states
BOSTON, Mass. (WLNE) — After nearly 25 years and 14 batches, Samuel Adams and Boston Beer Company have finally reached “utopia.” The brewing company has released 2025’s barrel-aged extreme beer that clocks in at 30 percent alcohol by volume (ABV). The brew is called Utopias. The beer was first produced in 2001 and has hit shelves with ABVs of 24 to 28 percent, only now reaching the company’s desired 30 percent mark. The milestone comes at a cost…
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