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On 1 April 2014, the Boston Beer Company's Samuel Adams brand released a video reporting that they had created HeliYum, a beer infused with helium: In concept this announcement mimicked a 1994 humor piece about a brand of Japanese beer supposedly infused with hydrogen, and Samuel Adams eventually revealed that their Helium Beer didn't in fact exist and the video was just an April Fool's Day joke. However beer testers Alex and Ralf from the Die BierProbierer podcast revived the joke the following year by claiming that they had gotten their hands on a bottle of the fictional beer: While Alex & Ralf noted that their video was also an April Fool's Day joke (notice the date), subsequent postings of the video did not include the humorous disclaimer, leading many viewers puzzled over whether the pair was discussing a genuine beer product. Samuel Adams and Alex & Ralf weren't the only ones to create videos showing the effects of helium beer. Both the Berkshire Brewing Company and the Stone Brewing Company also produced their own versions of helium beer promotions (which were similarly released in conjunction with April Fool's Day). For those who are nonetheless eagerly anticipating the arrival of such a product, the sad fact is that helium is one of the least soluble of gases and will probably never be infused into beer:
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