Samuel Adams Millennium
Big, caramel, vanilla with notes of fruit and malt. Finishing clean and crisp.
The package is as elegant as the beer it contains: a cobalt blue bottle with platinum lettering, finished with a natural cork and sealing wax, encased in a cherry wood box. There are only 3,000 bottles of Samuel Adams Millennium, and each is signed and
numbered by Koch. A bottle of Samuel Adams Millennium costs about two hundred dollars.
The package is as elegant as the beer it contains: a cobalt blue bottle with platinum lettering, finished with a natural cork and sealing wax, encased in a cherry wood box. There are only 3,000 bottles of Samuel Adams Millennium, and each is signed and
numbered by Koch. A bottle of Samuel Adams Millennium costs about two hundred dollars.
4.2
172 reviews
Boston, United States
Community reviews
Rating 5300Bottle shared by Brad during RBWG 2013. One of those beers you think you may never see and then BAM - thanks, Brad. Doubly awesome because he let Son of Gravedigger sign the box! Flat amber pour like maple syrup or rich cognac. Lots on the aroma, a booze kick, lots of caramel, toasted nuts, butterscotch, deep, dark fruits, and more. Rich flavor, some booze, rich caramel, butterscotch, nutty, fruity, and more caramel, touches of vanilla. A nice treat - thanks again, Brad!
Bottle shared by a friend for his 50th birthday. Cloudy brown in color with no head and sticky legs. Aroma of malt, cognac, cherry, tawny port and maple syrup. Malty and caramelly flavor with maple syrup and cherries before a sweet, warming cognac finish.
Thanks to Beer Savant for sharing bottle #1593/3000 during his 50th birthday bash. The beer pours a murky amber-brown color with a minimal white head that evaporates quickly to a bubbly outer ring. Sticky, coating legs on the side of the glass. Aroma of liqueur, maple and dark fruits. Full-bodied sipper with flavors of sherry, port wine, maple syrup and boozy vanilla. The finish is oaky with a vinous and boozy aftertaste. Very good beer overall.
Bottle 750ml @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2012
Courtesy of 3fourths Pours deep brown with no head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, cocoa, chocolate, dried fruits, grapes and alcohol. Taste is heavy sweet and light to medium bitter with a long vinous, sweet cocoa and caramel finish. Body is full, texture is stick, carbonation is flat.
massive thank you to Brad for sharing this with the late night rbwg crew, wyndham lobby .. . pours a deep tan mahogany .. still .. . caramel, cognac, melted brown sugar, booze, and toffee .. . very warming stuff, the 20% is there but as an after thought .. . smooth and velvety, an amazingly unique beer in every sense. a masterpiece! .. . . bacon up that sausage, boy!
Bottle (#085) by Brad at RBWGJX 2013, hotel lobby
Appearance: Dirty brown, small beige head
Maple, brown sugar and caramel, sweet
Very nice, held up good for the age
Thanks Brad for sharing this at the RBWG. This is a very sweet beer. Lots of caramel in the malt.
Bottke to taster at RBWG; BIG thanks to Brad for sharing this monster whale, and to lithy (Justin) for sharing his pour with me (as I was absent when it got popped) Looks good; a cloudy caramel that’s basically a liquor, so the stillness is fine. Smells and tastes good too; sweet and boozy like nice dark candy with maple notes. Good on the palate too. Delectable.
Big ups to brad. Dead pour but a beautiful toffee with alcohol sweet baked goods and a nice roundness of age. Way smoother that other 20 percent beers. Not cheap cognac like Utopias. Really nice alcohol sweet flavor. Strong but not cheap. Good sweetness and burnt brownie. Nice alcohol aftertaste. Bold yet nice.
Bottle in the hotel lobby. Big thanks to Brad. Pours murky amber with a slight, tan cream head. Big toffee in the nose, lightly oxidised malts, ripe fruits. Huge sweet flavor, big alcohol, toffee, apple, caramel, dates. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Hot finish, rich toffee, lightly tangy fruits, big alcohol. Really big and sweet beer, lots of toffee. Sweet and heavy.
Bottle at RBWG! Brad you are the man! Hell yea. Very boozy, maple, oak, and incredibly full of alcohol. Very sweet, brown sugar, a bit of maple, smooth for 20% booze. Absolutely delicious, but I feel like it is missing something after 13 years.
(bottle - corked 750 ml - bottle #389 - Night of the Titans 2013) Had this one lying down since 2005; a bit of a mistake in hindsight. The cork didn’t come out all the way so we had to filter out some of the chunks of it. But I digress.
Murky copper pour with no head and no carbonation. Drunk room temperature. Sweet and boozy aroma with loads of maple syrup. Flavor is deep and rich. Very sweet with lots of alcohol notes, definitely more reminiscent of a port or a brandy than a beer, but smooth and sweet nonetheless. Finishes with a gorgeous warm note and maple aftertaste.
Bottle, 75cl, shared by 3fourths, thanks a lot Mike. It’s murky brown and rather flat. No wonder, as it had been carried around for a day or two. It’s vinous on the nose, with caramel, a suiting oxidation, some meaty umami hints and lots of chocolate. The flavor is equally vinous, with chocolate, cocoa and caramel. Meaty too, and with some bitterness. Full body, warming. Sweet, warming and bitter finish with a good dash of chocolate. A lovely one indeed, certainly keeping well. A bit on the alcoholic side maybe, but it’s far from too warming. Again, thanks Mike. 120511
"Intermission" beer at the DC Lambic & Sour Tasting on April 14, 2012, courtesy of ygtbsm94. Thanks a lot, Brad!
The beer is light brown with only a mild haze and no head whatsoever, which is to be expected.
The aroma is fabulous, offering maple syrup, booze, toffee, vanilla, oak.
The flavor? Oh my...hold on, I need a moment (tears). If I was a lonely rich guy, I would drink this straight from the bottle immediately after getting out of bed around noon. Incredibly balanced and rich, with all of the characteristics mentioned in the aroma transferring beautifully into the flavor.
Silky, velvety smooth. The beer melts into the palate and delicately warms the cheeks. Heavenly.
If loving this is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
Last tick of Epic Tres. It’s actually pretty sad that this monumentus event has to come to an end, but I can’t think of a better way to close out the night. Thanks a bunch for bringing this Chris! Somewhat cloudy orangish brown that is completely still on the pour. Nose is so inviting, this would be a perfect sipper for a cold winter night. Caramel, vanilla, maple, oak, bourbon, and booze highlight a magnificent nose. Millennium is sweet and boozy with loads of caramel, vanilla, honey, and maple. Mouthfeel is thick and syrupy, no carbonation, and an exceptionally long finish. A masterpiece of a beer, absolutely incredible. Obviously this isn’t something you would kill yourself, but it would be a perfect sipper over multiple days. Here’s to getting snowed in this winter!
Bottle over 3 days. 2nd day was the best showing.
Nose: 1st day--date cakes, golden raisins, dried figs, baklava, sugared pecans. Diacetyl buttery pecan rolls, clove, sweet potato pie, brown sugar, very hot smelling. 2nd day, everything became more integrated and the alcohol fumes settled down quite a bit.
Mouth: 1st day--unpleasantly alcoholic, like a fever flush. Headache inducing, like what I’d imagine a turn of the century sick room in China smelling like--5 spice and cheesy unwashed flesh and incense smoke. Very cloying. Burnt wood oils, like those liquid smoke drops. Charred bananas. 2nd day was much better. Again, the alcohol calmed down and everything integrated fairly well. The sickly smoky things went away for the most part, and it became much more tawny port like. Mild umami and oxidized sherry notes. Distinctly unappealing looking, dirty with lots of floaty bits.
Courtesy of 3fourths @ CBC. Hazy amber with no head. Aroma is malt, fruit, toffee, caramel and hops. Flaovur is malt, fruit, toffee, dried fruits, hops, medium sweet, little bitter with notes of alcohol.
Courtesy of 3fourths @ CBC. Thanks a lot! Hazy amber without head. Aroma is sweet, malty, dried fruit, port and alcohol. Flavor is very sweet. Very sweet finish with warming alcohol. Very full bodied. 110512
sampled from bottle multiple times over a three day period. of course it has no head and no carbonation, and color was affected by a small amount of sediment mixed in while carrying the bottle around, ending up less than what I would call cloudy or muddy. I kept coming back to the description of this as something like port beer: 20% alcohol, best served as a dessert drink, but not over sweet or too high in alcohol for it’s body. the nose contains everything from vanillin and oak (surprised as this is un-oaked), sherry, port wine and cognac but with less of the strong grape/plum/fruit chracter and more of a caramel, vanilla and nougat character. warming, tingling alcohol is never overbearing compared to the sweetness (which is medium to medium-high) and body (viscous, thick, sticky, but not cloying or fatiguing). burnt nuts show up at times, and the wood/oak barrel/vanillin character is more muted on the second day. I found this bottle on random travels through Wyoming, of all places, and I’m glad to have brought it along to Denmark to share with so many people, and to try multiple times in different settings. I think day two was probably the best shape for this beer after having some time to breathe. More enjoyable than Utopias, and *much* more enjoytable than Tripel Bock.
Bottle @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration, courtesy of 3Fourths, Thanks! Pours hazy brown, no head. Aroma of big malts, caramel, oak, vanilla, port, light booze. Taste is sweet big malts, caramel, some dried fruit, oak, vanilla, dried fruit, port. Medium body, soft carbonation. 110512
Bottle courtesy of 3fourths, thank you sir! Murky maroon brown color. Aroma of sherry and maple syrup. Taste is cloying sweetness. Thank you Michael!
A cata a cegues diria que es una garnatxa envellida de postres. Molt fina, aromàtica, notes d’envelliment. Gran cervesa. Però la trobo molt cara. Per molt menys em compro una de les millors garnatches dolces del món.
750mL thanks to 3fourths. Tawny, muddy mahogany pour with good highlights. No head. Rich port nose with powerful sherry and honey. Rich English Barleywine flavors similar to JW Lees Port or Sherry. Sharper brown alcohol. Rich and powerful. Nice powerful tawny oil and rich port and honey. Sweeter English Barleywine. Thanks MJ!
"Intermission" beer at the DC Lambic & Sour Tasting on April 14, 2012, courtesy of ygtbsm94. Thanks a lot, Brad!
Longtime want served in a Samuel Adams taster glass.
Pours a clear copper-dark brown color with no head, lacing, or anything of that sort, but I certainly wasn’t expecting that. The color is nice enough to warrant a 4.0.
The nose is super-intense and brings notes of brown sugar and caramel with a bit of toffee underneath. There’s some maple coming to the front as it warms plus a fairly-heavy dose of sherry. Vanilla lingers in the background and carries through with the ample into the flavor.
Flavor consists mostly of the aforementioned vanilla and maple over a backdrop of sherry and port notes of oxidized malt plus heavy caramelized brown sugar. Flavor lasts across the palate for awhile before a bit of alcohol sets in.
Moderate-to-strong sweetness through the finish, which is very smooth, almost creamy and oily in how smooth it is without much carbonation and a very low amount of noticeable alcohol.
Overall, this is incredible smooth and I was thrilled to finally try it. Big thanks again to Brad for bringing this bottle out.
Bottle shared by frumptydumpty on new years eve 2011. Thanks Ryan. After struggling to get out the cork and finally just pushing a large piece of it into the bottle so we could get to this super hyped beer. Ryan initially poured this into shot glasses to share with the masses but the only people who had any real interest in this treasure were me, ryan, ryan’s bro, and paul, the owner of duck rabbit so we ended up with a lot leftover including a 12 oz plastic cup full that ryan showed me the next morning. quite the wounded soldier. anyway. this beer was good, but a few of the top beers in this style (mainly thinking of M and Dave), this one seemed somewhat underwhelming. Big nose, lots of caramel, brown sugar, dark fruits, umami, toffee, port, sherry. Interesting stuff but Ryan’s beers that he made at Fano were much better to me.
Bottle number 503/3000, with a big thanks to Adam. Pours a tawny brown with a slight amount of bubbles hanging out around the edges of the glass. Caramel, toffee, syrupy bourbon, and a whole heap of umami. Reminiscent of the very old koshu we had at RBSG 2010. Flavors are incredible, caramel and toffee, more umami. Velvety smooth, excellent mouthfeel. Long finish with touches of maple. Rather port like. Alcohol here is completely hidden. This destroys Utopias. No idea why they wouldn’t make this again and just keep making Utopias. This was incredible.
Had back in April, Utopias right before. Pours a dark chestnut brown, transparent. Much more mellow than Utopias, 11 years can do that. Sweet malts, caramel, some light bourbon, notes of cherries, a fair bit of tobacco and hints of sherry. The flavor has the sweet malt, notes of plums and cherries, sweet vanilla and roasted oak from the barrel, bourbon notes well integrated, leafy tobacco with faint heat. full bodied, much smoother than utopias but still has a viscous creamy feel with a gentle carbonation and smooth finish.
Bottle. I’m not sure what qualifies as a full taste, but I got a small bit of this courtesy of thickfreakness, whose rating is just a few below this. Thanks man. Figured I’d put it in here just so I can remember it later on. It tasted more like liquor than it did beer, almost. So smooth...mouthfeel was absolutely incredible. Strong taste, but certainly not overwhelming for a small taster.
There’s an amazing story behind us trying this one. Then I look at each of the little squares below mine, and each of those probably also has an awesome story behind it of how the beer got from Sam Adams, opened, and the experience writ into that square...
Compared to Utopias, more balance, less stinging heat and sugar. Maple, lightly plummy, chocolate, thin with a heavy sticky body but the residual sugar adds to the experience, imparting a lightly chewy texture that, coupled with the chocolate, becomes dessert-like. Nearly no heat compared to Utopias.
Courtesy of hoppymeal
Bottle: The aroma consists of chcocolate, maple syrup, raisins, caramel, vanilla, and whiskey. It pours a hazy brownish-orange with a few stray bubbles for a head. The flavor starts with very sweet and fruity along with vanilla, caramel, and raisins. The finish has chocolate, whiskey, maple syrup, and light alcohol. Full bodies with a syrupy mouthfeel. Good, but I assume in small amounts. Any more than a few ounces would wear on me quickly.