It's a new beer with some unusual characteristics.
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Only 12 bottles were brewed, and they sold for $765 each.
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It had an alcohol content of 55%. Can you even get that without distillation? Does it even count as a beer? Does it taste like beer?
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It comes in a unique bottle wrapped in preserved roadkill.
It's an interesting combination, not one element of which gives me any desire to drink the stuff.
(Also on FtB)
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