First we heard Ferran Adria, the famous Spanish chef from the world's greatest restaurant, El Bulli, was
interested in pizza and it turns out he's already got the beer. Adria, his partner Juli Soler and two of his sommeliers have worked on a beer for the 100-year-old brewery Estrella Damm of Barcelona. This is no ordinary pint, The
NY Times quotes Adria who says that, "The idea was to make a beer to drink with food, from a wineglass."
Inedit is actually a combination of two beers, a lager and a German-style weissbier with flavors of coriander, orange peel and licorice. The two beers are fermented separately and then combined in a 750ml wine bottle where they undergo a secondary fermentation. It is recommended that the beer be chilled in a wine cooler and served in white wine glasses which are supposed to be filled only half full so that the nuances of the brew can be appreciated. It sells for $9.99 and is available at Whole Foods.
Australian beer maker Fosters has gotten into the luxury beer market with a lager that costs $70 Australian a bottle. The 2009 Crown Ambassdor Reserve Lager is the second vintage of the lager which undergoes in-bottle fermentation for a more complex taste and is presented in a 750 ml champagne-style bottle. The beer doesn't need to be quaffed immediately, it can be cellared for up to 10 years. Last year the beer sold out quickly and it is expected that those who missed out on one of last year's 5,000 bottles might grab one of this year's 6,000 brews. One bottle you can't get is the first bottle. The Queen of England has both the first bottles of the 2008 and 2009 vintages in her cellars. 
Krait Prestige Champagne Lager
