Feature: Unique brewery with hand-made bottle drive Vancouver beer price record high

You want to drink some beer? No problem. How about the beer selling 1,000 Canadian dollars (about 750 U.S. Dollars) a bottle? Yes, this is no kidding. Here in Vancouver, there is going to be a kind of such beer worth that much.

That brewery company is called Storm Brewing, located in East Vancouver. Since 1994, Storm Brewing has been a pioneer in the local craft beer industry, but now it has brewed up something that is getting perhaps more attention than ever before.

Ten bottles of beer, called Glacial Mammoth Extinction, will be set for sale with 1,000 CAD each on Dec. 5, probably the most expensive beer available in Canada.

James Walton, the owner and brewer of Storm Brewing, said he succeeded in making this unique beer with a lot of hard work.

"It's like sour beer that's been frozen into an ice block, then you just take off a tiny little bit of the liquid. It's kind of like the Canadian ice wines that have been on the market for the last 20 years. I wanted to do that with beer," Walton told Xinhua in an interview.

Walton is known for his experimental, one-of-a-kind beers. When he came up with the recipe for this one, he felt it needed a fancy bottle to match the beer, which added a lot of value to the beer.

Walton said each of the 10 one-liter bottles was hand-crafted, blown glass made by local glass artisan Brad Turner.

"The biggest challenge for me was the flip top, because these tools aren't around any more for glass-blowing. It's an old traditional thing and most of these are machine-made now. So that was a challenge in getting tops to fit," Turner said.

He said each bottle comes with a 30,000-year-old ivory pendant made from ivory of extinct, unearthed mammoths, adding that each one is different in forms and patterns.

As for the beer, it has 25 percent alcohol, and is not for people who like their beers to be bland and simple. But those who are shy of the high price, the beer is also available in basic jugs, for 80 CAD (about 60 U.S. dollars) a liter. Endi