$500,000 for a bottle of beer

I was surfing yesterday and found this article about an eBay auction for an old bottle of beer.  The final price...$503,300.  The beer was supposedly brewed by Allsopp's Brewery (one of the first to brew IPA) in 1852 and still contains the original beer.  Of course now that the auction is complete, there have been a few questions about whether or not the beer is actually that old.  Between you and me...I don't care how good or how old a beer is.  I am never going to plunk down half a million dollars for it.  For that much money, I could buy 18,000 cases of micro at $6.99 a six pack.  That's a lot of beer!

Check out the original article by Geoff Kaiser over at Seattlest.com: $500,000 for 1 Bottle of Beer?