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BOSTON — Back by popular demand by grooms everywhere, the brewers at Samuel Adams announce the return of Samuel Adams Brewlywed Ale. The limited release, Belgian-style “bride ale” will be available for one day only — on June 26, 2013 — exclusively at the Boston Brewery. Created to celebrate the tradition of brewing for weddings,… Read more »

BOSTON ? Samuel Adams today announced the introduction of two new collaboration beers with the first recipients of the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream Brewing and Business Experienceship, a mentorship opportunity offered as part of the company’s small business micro lending and coaching program.

BOSTON – The Boston Beer Company today announced that its microlending and mentoring program, Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream, will host its first speed coaching event in San Francisco. To date, the personalized expert coaching has helped more than 3,000 small businesses nationwide, and is designed to provide high-impact advice for small business owners… Read more »

There’s an old Irish proverb that goes something like “when the apple is ripe, it will fall.” If recent statistics are any indication, the time is ripe for U.S cider makers, and a hail of apples is on the way. Sales of U.S. hard cider tripled over the five-year period from 2007-2012, reaching about $600… Read more »

Remember when the Brewers Association (BA) sparked the “Craft versus Crafty” debate last December? It’s not dead yet. At a gathering of beer companies this week in Chicago, in fact, it seemed pretty alive, as some high-profile craft and mainstream beer company executives tried to hash out the issue.

When asked to explain the secret to craft brewing innovation, Jim Koch, head of the country’s largest craft brewery, had a rather simple response at yesterday’s Brewbound Session, held in Boston. “I get bored easily,” he said.

Brewbound is pleased to announce that Jim Koch, founder of the Boston Beer Company, will join the Brewbound Session as a keynote speaker. The event will take place on May 2 at the Revere Hotel in Boston. Koch, who brewed the first batch of his company’s flagship Boston Lager on his kitchen stove in 1984,… Read more »

The founder of the country’s largest craft brewery, the Boston Beer Company (BBC), announced yesterday plans to allow other craft brewers the opportunity to use a patent-pending can package that Koch spent two years and $1 million designing. “We’ve decided to make the patent-pending design available, without any royalty or license fee, to all craft… Read more »

BOSTON – The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (NYSE: SAM) reported net income for the 13-week fiscal 2012 fourth quarter of $16.9 million, or $1.25 per diluted share, a decrease of $0.9 million, or $.08 per diluted share, compared to the 14 week fiscal 2011 fourth quarter.

BOSTON (February 19, 2013) — Samuel Adams announced today that for the first time it plans to offer Samuel Adams Boston Lager in a can — but not just any can. The new can design — the result of two years of ergonomic and sensory research and testing — aims to provide a drinking experience… Read more »

After years of refusing to put his beer in cans, Jim Koch — the founder of Boston Beer Company (BBC) — believes he’s finally found a package worthy of his brewery’s flagship offering, Boston Lager. Slated for an early summer release, the “Sam Can,” as Boston Beer’s brewers have termed it, is the result of… Read more »

The country’s largest craft brewer, Boston Beer Company, is enjoying impressive sales growth in the convenience channel to begin 2013, up over 25 percent through a four-week period ending Jan. 19. Those numbers, and others, seem to confirm a growing presence for at least the country’s best-established craft beer brands in convenience stores.

Alchemy & Science, the craft-brew incubation project spearheaded by beer industry veterans Alan Newman and Jim Koch, confirmed today that it has quietly made its latest acquisition. The Vermont-based company recently purchased the trademark rights to the business name “Just Beer” from Buzzards Bay Brewing of Westport, Mass. “Just Beer” was the name of a… Read more »

BOSTON – The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (NYSE: SAM), based on information of which the Company is currently aware, now expects its 2012 earnings per diluted share range to be between $4.30 and $4.60, an increase from the previously communicated range of $3.80 to $4.20 . This increase is primarily due to increased shipment volumes… Read more »