Tammy reports that a friend's husband found out the hard way this past weekend that homebrewing beer is not without its risks.

Boston Beer Map.

You might want to back away from the bar if your bottle is brown and embossed on the bottom with "N35 OI".

Has the Boston Brewing Co. started adding chutzpah to the beer whose name it appropriated from one of our local heroes?

Portland, OR has a city councilor named Sam Adams who is now running for mayor. A pair of DJs at a radio station out there set up samadamsformayor.com and said they would give it (and another samadams domain) to him if he came on their show. The beer company found out about the domains and got hopping mad: It is demanding the station pull the site down because it owns a trademark on "Sam Adams."

Associated Press reports:

The candidate says he's amused by the flap, pointing out that while Boston Beer claims to have owned the Sam Adams trademark since 1984, he's owned it since he was born in 1963.

The beer company told the Oregonian it would consider letting Adams use the domains, but only until the campaign was over.

That's not good enough for Portland bloggers, who are foaming mad and are now boycotting Sam Adams - the beer, that is, not the city councilor.

Special bonus Portland fun fact: The city was founded by, surprise, a pair of New Englanders, one from Boston, one from Portland, ME. Both wanted to name the new place after their hometown. What do do? They flipped a coin.

This Sam Adams seems upset (then again, he always seems upset):

Photo by Chris Kirkman.

This Sam Adams doesn't seem to be feeling any pain:

This Sam Adams is no longer being consumed by some Portland bloggers:

Ryan McGee has a case and a half of Sam Adams Octoberfest on his back porch. So? See, he's gotten older and realizes it's probably not the best thing to start downing that liquid gold during the week. But dagnabbit, he wants to anyway: I need excuses to crack open the sudsy goodness that calls my name:

... Drop any and all excuses below. Help a bald Bostonian out. It doesn't have to be a good one. Heck, I'd kinda prefer a bad one. Like, "Well, you didn't kill a koala today, did you?"

At TellHimFred.com, Nathan (aka Barry Freed) has written to the Miller Brewing Company to express his interest in selling out to Miller Lite. Think of it as a love story....only about beer.