A new beer is born.

[bluedigger]

For the past two years, the Boston Beer Co., maker of Samuel Adams beers, has been working with Germany's Weihenstephan Brewery, the world's oldest brewery, to create an entirely new style of beer. Boston Beer founder Jim Koch and Weihenstephan director Josef Schradler announced this morning that the collaboration is complete. The new beer, a champagne-like ale called Infinium, will hit store shelves in early December. The two brewers claim Infinium is the first new beer created under the German beer purity law, called the Reinheitsgebot, in more than 100 years. (Under the law, only four ingredients -- malt, hops, yeast, and water -- can be used to make beer.)So what's Infinium like? We haven't tried it yet, but Koch says it's a deep golden, bubbly ale with a fruity aroma and contains 10.3 percent alcohol, more than twice that in a Sam Adams Boston Lager. And it doesn't come cheap: The retail price will be $19.99 for a 750-milliliter bottle.http://www.boston.com/ae/specials/culturedesk/2010/11/infinium_an_entirely_new_style.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed2

I guess I won't be downing a six pack...:beer: