Day 365 / December 31, 2011
Boston Beer Company, Boston MA
and Bayerische Staatsbrauerei
Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany
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That’s
all folks!
Well, that’s it! 365 different beers, every day this
year. Done! I’m disappointed in myself that I didn’t put
the effort in the losing 50 pounds part of the challenge. But hey, I’m happy with the accomplishment.
I bought a special beer to finish out
the run. I didn’t know quite what to
expect, but the promise of the Samuel Adams Infinium Ale was inviting. A special collaboration between Sam Adams and
the world’s oldest brewery, Germany’s Weihenstephan, it was billed as a
“champagne” beer, comes in a very attractive bottle, and cost $20 for a 750ml
bottle.
While the mission of the two breweries
was to create a beer with the quality and taste of fine champagne, they needed
to do so in accordance with the German beer purity law, Reinheitsgebot,
which says the beer can only be made from four ingredients: hops, malt, water and yeast.
To learn about the two year
collaboration to produce this beer, you can check out this great
article from All About Beer, and watch the videos (here and here) on Sam Adam’s
website.
The final fermentation actually takes
place in the bottle. And in this case,
it was actually fermented by the makers of Great Western champagne in
Hammondsport, NY.
This was a very unique and tasty
beer. It popped and was effervescent
like champagne, and had a slightly sweet, crisp tartness like champagne. I thoroughly enjoyed this beer, and I was
glad I chose it to end the run.
So, the big question… will I have a
beer today, January 1, 2012? Maybe,
maybe not.
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See ya!
