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Sam Adams Utopias - Beer of the Week

Posted Nov 16th 2009 5:00PM by Joshua M. Bernstein
Filed under: Beer

Photo: Sam Adams.

Joshua M. Bernstein has written about brews, bars and booze for New York Magazine, Time Out New York, ForbesTraveler.com and the New York Times.

Nowadays, liquor store shelves sag beneath with double IPAs and imperial stouts -- flavorful, potent brews with ABVs that often hit 10 percent and above. But these beers are as innocuous as apple juice when compared with Samuel Adams' Utopias, which clock in at a liquor-like 27 percent ABV.

"This is the Starship Enterprise of beers," says Jim Koch, founder of Sam Adams. "We're taking beer where beer has never gone before."

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The New "Big 3"

Posted Aug 10th 2008 11:59AM by Mike Pomranz
Filed under: Beer, Business, America

For my entire life, when it came to American breweries, three names came to mind: Anheuser-Busch, Miller and Coors. Well, in 2002, Miller was purchased by South African Breweries to form SABMiller. In 2005, Coors merged with Canada's Molson to form Molson Coors. And now, the multi-continent conglomerate InBev is buying Anheuser-Busch. It's enough to make your head-spin: You shouldn't need an M.B.A. to get tipsy.

The question becomes, with all of these international buyouts, what true blue American breweries are left?

A lot of companies have been quick to fly the American flag, but fittingly, the new #1 American owned brewery takes their brand name from an American patriot. Boston Beer Company, makers of Sam Adams, is now not only America's largest "craft brewer", it's also the country's largest domestically owned brewery. If that doesn't further blur the line between the modern craft brewery and their macro counterparts, I don't know what does.

So who are in line to be the new "Big 3"? Breaking it down strictly by 2007's beer sales volume here you go: 1) Boston Beer (makers of Sam Adams), 2) Yuengling, and 3) Sierra Nevada.

Surprised? I was. See the entire list (compiled by the not-for-profit Brewers Association) here.

[Photo Credit: yuengling.com / sierranevada.com / samueladams.com]

Learning to Drink Beer - A Noob's Notes

Posted Jan 16th 2006 9:09PM by Sarah J. Gim
Filed under: Beer, Raves & Reviews

beer introduction I'm not a big beer drinker. In fact, I'm not a beer drinker, period. Beer has always tasted extremely bitter to me, and I had it in my head that beer is very very bad for the belly (whereas wine and cocktails are diet drinks, right?).

But this weekend, I finally developed a little bit of a taste for beer. I tried several different ones (five to be exact) just to prove to myself that all beers do not, indeed taste like the same nasty dirty dishwasher that I thought. My personal, introductory tasting notes:

Tecate and Corona were good, and in LA, these are very familiar beers. I certainly liked the fact that we squeezed lime wedges into them. Without the lime, though, both were just okay. Now that I've tasted it with the lime, I don't think I could drink it plain.
Samuel Adams was a little too bitter for me and i couldn't finish the bottle without squeezing lime into it. What? Is that wrong? Why can't I squeeze a lime into a Sam Adams?
Pilsner-Urquell is a beer from the Czech Republic, and I didn't know how to pronounce it. It was even more bitter and stinky than the Sam Adams. I think I am learning that I don't like beers that come in green bottles.
Granted, I'm years behind most people in the beer drinking evolution, so yes, I am still on what most people start with - Miller Genuine Draft, or as we beer drinkers say, MGD. This was the winner of the weekend and what I will be drinking during the Super Bowl.

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