Koch's Millennium.(Boston Beer Co.'s Jim Koch produces limited edition of Samuel Adams Millenium beer)(Statistical Data Included)(Interview)

From: Modern Brewery Age | Date: November 15, 1999 | Copyright information

Boston Beer's Jim Koch brews a beer to last a thousand years.

Jim Koch of the Boston Beer Co. has chosen the turn of the millennium to take specialty beer to a new more flavorful (and expensive) level. He has produced a limited edition Samuel Adams Millennium beer with 20% alcohol by volume, selling for $200 a bottle. Each blue glass bottle is packaged in a velvet sack, encased in a wooden presentation box. It well may be the ultimate brewer's vanity project--a beer that...

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