Beer with a port taste !?!?

[smisse]

For the beer lovers under us, I recently heard about a beer that seems to have more similarities with port then with beer

- It ages a minimum of 2 years on oak barrels.
- It has a red colour which over time becomes browner.
- The older it is, the more port/madeira tastes are recognised.
- Although you can only buy them with an age of about 6 years, the actual brewery has beers in stock from the early sixties that are still drinkable.

for the interested, it is called Rodenbach Grand Cru.

http://www.rodenbach.be

[furrybug]

The Sam Adams Utopia, if you are lucky enough to get one, is very port like with a 27 Percent ABV and oak aged. It is very tasty and quite spendy. Avery Sameal is also quite good for this style, though it only punches in at 17 percent ABV.

[Andy Velebil]

I've never had Utopia, but one of these days I would love to try a glass of it and see what it's all about.