beer

Now just beer with us

adamg — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:45:20 -0400

Beer shipments nationwide dropped in June, but not in Massachusetts, where we can't get enough of the stuff, the Boston Business Journal reports.

Contents under pressure

adamg — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:43:40 -0400

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

Wheah's the beah? It's everywheah!

adamg — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:03:32 -0400

Boston Beer Map.

Glass in glass bottles of Sam Adams

adamg — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:14:03 -0400

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

Sam Adams faces revolt over Sam Adams

adamg — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:00:45 -0400

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:

He needs your help

adamg — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:59:32 -0400

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?"

Open Letter To Miller Lite

barryfreed — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:33:10 -0400

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.