Here comes the £255 pint!

March 3, 2008: If you thought the ever-increasing price of a pint was bad, then you won't be ordering a Jacobsen Vintage No.1.

The 600 limited edition bottle, filled with 10.5% ABV beer, and brewed within the Carlsberg group, has gone on sale at £204 a bottle. With the bottles holding 375cl, that equates to £255 a pint!

Vintage No.1 has been matured in J C Jacobsen's original crypt-like cellar for six months, in new Swedish and French oak barrels.

"The project started as a wild idea and a wish to create a new type of beer that had never been seen before," said Jens Eiken, head brewer at Jacobsen,

"During the ageing process in new barrels lots of chemical processes take place. Not all reactions are known but they taste wonderful."

The beer will be sold mainly through three upmarket restaurants in Copenhagen

Each bottle of Jacobsen Vintage No.1 is labelled with an original hand-stilled lithographic print made by Danish artist Frans Kannik. The prints depict fables of Sif, who was married to the Nordic god Thor, often used by Carls Jacobsen as a symbol of strength.

It may not seem like everyone's idea of great value, but beer writer Pete Brown told the Sunday Mirror: "It is worth every penny in my opinion. I promise you, if you taste this drink it will totally change your perception of beer."