The Boston Beer Company is an American brewery founded in 1984. The Boston Beer Company is the fourth beer company names brewer in the United States with products available throughout the United States and internationally.
The Boston Beer Company was founded in 1984 by James “Jim” Koch and Rhonda Kallman. The initial beer offering was Samuel Adams Boston Lager, a 4. Koch named his beer after the Boston patriot Samuel Adams, who fought for American independence, and who also had inherited a brewing tradition from his father. Initially, Koch rented excess capacity and brewed the beer at the Pittsburgh Brewing Company, best known for their Iron City brand of beer. In 1997, Jim Koch returned to his hometown of Cincinnati to purchase the Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewery, where his father apprenticed in the 1940s.
This was also an important step the company took to reduce reliance on contract brewing. The Boston Beer Company went public, selling shares of Class A Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange, under the ticker symbol, “SAM”. Boston Beer launched Hardcore Cider in 1997, and Twisted Tea brand in 2000. In 2007, the Boston Beer Company purchased the former F. Schaefer Brewing Company brewery in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley.
As of 2014, the company had 1,325 employees in its Boston, Massachusetts, Cincinnati, Ohio and Breinigsville, Pennsylvania breweries. As part of the merger, Dogfish Head owner Sam Calagione and his wife, Mariah, became the second biggest non-institutional owners of Boston Beer Company. 85 million dollars in its Cincinnati plant to quadruple its current canning capacity of Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, Twisted Tea, and Truly Hard Seltzer. Boston Lager is also dry hopped using the Hallertau Mittelfrueh and Tettnang Tettnanger hops.
Samuel Adams Rebel IPA First brewed in 2014, Samuel Adams Rebel IPA is a West Coast style India Pale Ale. The beer is brewed with five American hops – American Cascade, Simcoe, Chinook, Centennial, and Amarillo. Sam Adams Light Introduced in 2001, Sam Adams Light was the second light beer the company brewed. There was consideration to name the brew “Turtle Adams” after Sam Adams’ pet turtle. The company previously sold Boston Lightship, which was introduced in 1987.
Samuel Adams Barrel Room Collection These Belgian style beers are left in large wood barrels to age and pick up some of the flavors of the wood. The beers in this collection are American Kriek, New World, Stony Brook Red, Thirteenth Hour and Tetravis. Utopias is made with caramel, Vienna, Moravian and Bavarian smoked malts, and four varieties of noble hops: Hallertauer Mittelfrüh, Tettnanger, Spalter, and Saaz hops. Triple Bock Triple Bock was released in 1994, 1995, and 1997.
It has a black, opaque color, no carbonation, and at 17. ABV it was the strongest beer brewed at the time it was introduced. Maple syrup was added in the brewing process. In addition to year-round offerings, Samuel Adams also has four seasonal offerings.
The spring seasonal beers are Cold Snap, a Witbier and Escape Route, a Kölsch. The spring seasonals are sold from January to March. Samuel Adams also offers seasonal variety packs that include a mix of year-round and seasonal offerings. Hard cider Samuel Adams began offering ciders in 1995.
The company has both year-round and seasonal cider offerings, which since 2012 have been sold under the Angry Orchard brand name. Its brand portfolio has since grown to include a number of flavored varieties, including a “half and half” variant designed to mimic an Arnold Palmer, and is primarily marketed in the American southeast. Los Angeles-based Angel City Brewery and the Concrete Beach Brewery in Miami. In October 2009, the Boston Beer Company announced a two-year project with German brewery Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan to jointly produce a new craft beer named Infinium, to be marketed in both Germany and the U. In 2008, Jim Koch created the Brewing the American Dream program. In early 2008, amidst a worldwide shortage of hops—a key ingredient in beer—Boston Beer Company agreed to sell 20,000 pounds of its hops, at cost, to craft brewers throughout the United States. The company selected 108 craft brewers to divide the 20,000 pounds they had spare.
Samuel Adams shared their hops again in June 2012. Homebrewers submit their brew to a series of judging and taste tests with the chance to see their creation in larger-scale production and sold on store shelves as part of a Samuel Adams mixed 6-pack the following year. Starting in the 2018 season, Boston Beer Company’s Samuel Adams became the official beer of the Boston Red Sox, replacing Budweiser. The eight-year deal will last through the 2025 season and include signage and a Sam roof deck.
Since the 2021 season, Twisted Tea has been the naming sponsor of Team Twisted Tea Suzuki in the AMA Motocross and Supercross championships. This section may lend undue weight to certain ideas, incidents, or controversies. Please help to create a more balanced presentation. Since 1990, the company has produced a seasonal fruit beer labeled “Cranberry Lambic”. The hosts created a promotion called “Sex for Sam”, in which Opie and Anthony encouraged couples to have sex in notable public places in New York City.