2021 Edition of Samuel Adams Utopias is out, and I had a bottle delivered to test the hype. It's illegal in 15 states. In which the answer to the question, "How much would you pay for a beer?" is "How much are they charging?" and vice versa.

The taste is very similar to the 30-year Armagnac I bought for my birthday last year (cherry, honey) and hilariously, half the price of this beer. However, the flatness of it suggests to me (a homebrewer) a fancy, distilled wort (freshly boiled beer soup before the yeast has been added). Now, wort doesn't taste bad, and usually blooms with fresh hoppy flavor that mellows out during fermentation, but its flatness suggests a substance half-done. Like plain soup stock, before it's spun into the magic of a soup, sauce, or stew.

As I finished the bottle, it became harder to not have that unfinished sensation on my palate , so I probably won't be investing in it again.