The world's most expensive beer: Vintage No. 1

In November I wrote about Sam Adams Utopias - the $140 per bottle beer that's 27% alcohol.

Today I heard about a new beer that's even more expensive, but it doesn't come in a bottle that's nearly as cool as Utopias.

Carlsberg A/S (the the 5th largest brewery in the world) has produced 600 bottles of a special beer that will only be sold at three upscale restaurants in Copenhagen. The beer is called Vintage No. 1.

Vintage No. 1 contains 10.5% alcohol and comes in 12.8 ounce bottles (the golden Utopias bottle looks much larger than that).

The bottles cost $396.47 each.

The beer contains hints of prune, caramel, vanilla, and oak from the French and Swedish wooden casks in which it is stored.

Utopias is described with hints of passion fruit, peach, pear, sweet vanilla, butter, toffee, and fig.

I'm not even going to bother asking for a bottle of Vintage No. 1. I'd rather have a bottle of the Utopias and put the extra $256.47 towards some Miller High Life.