The White House has posted a transcript of comments made by businessmen invited to have dinner with the president at his New Jersey golf club the other day. Search on "Koch" to see what our own Jim Koch had to say:
When I started Sam Adams, American beer was a joke, and it pissed me off. And now, American brewers make the best beer in the world. And the tax reform was a very big deal for all of us, because 85 percent of the beer made in the United States is owned by foreign companies. ...
I mean, Americans - I’m the largest American-owned brewery at 2 percent market share. We were paying 38-percent taxes and competing against people who were paying 20. And now we have a level playing field, and we’re going to kick their ass.
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Plenty of good beer out there
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 08/08/2018 - 6:01pm
No need to drink his.
Yep.
By formerlyTheSoBo...
Wed, 08/08/2018 - 6:59pm
Average Beer + Kissing up to a person that mocked a Vietnam POW = Go Harpoon!
Yeah, but then that Harpoon
By baustin
Thu, 08/09/2018 - 9:10am
Yeah, but then that Harpoon president guy said all that ignorant stuff in the Harvard Crimson, so there's one other brewery that doesn't get my money. I love Harpoon beer, but I haven't touched it since then, and I don't need to. Like everyone else said, I have hundreds of amazing breweries I can pick from just at the grocery store.
Tell us the rest of the "Storey"
By anon
Fri, 08/10/2018 - 9:11am
Harpoon is employee-owned and the owners showed him the door.
He works in investment banking now.
Harpoon is worse
By ECG (nli)
Thu, 08/09/2018 - 10:07am
A couple of years ago, Charles Storey, President of Harpoon, said that Harvard's final clubs shouldn't be forced to admit women, because that would increase the likelihood of sexual misconduct and assault. [Not by the women.]
There are plenty of other good beers out there--I now make sure to avoid Harpoon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp...
Harpoon is Employee Owned
By anon
Fri, 08/10/2018 - 9:10am
That kind of crap is self-correcting - CEO answers to the employees.
If only it were possible
By Section77
Wed, 08/08/2018 - 6:53pm
To buy less Sam than I already don’t.
Wow unhinged much
By anon
Wed, 08/08/2018 - 8:12pm
An American company becoming more competitive and looking to expand because of a tax break. The horror.
"Ваше здоровье! "
By Scooterdue
Wed, 08/08/2018 - 8:13pm
Da!
We offer you familiar toast in your city of Boston!
And, we have new name for one of your famous places....
No longer "Cheers" we call it now Ваше здоровье!
"zda-ró-vye!" Where someone, yes, knows name...knows all name and is friends!
Is good?! LOL Da! We want place where everyone knows your name! (And, everything else about you too!" LOL yes,
Comrade...
By dmcboston
Thu, 08/09/2018 - 5:36pm
Welcome to America...now for a taste of the old country...
[img]https://i.imgur.com/kZ4Kg2c.jpg[/img]
Sam Adams was a Patriot.
By Ron Newman
Thu, 08/09/2018 - 12:39am
Sam Adams was a Patriot.
Would he approve of hobnobbing with a usurper President, illegitimately installed in the White House by a hostile foreign power?
Perhaps Jim Koch should change the name of his flagship brew to Benedict Arnold Lager.
Sam Adams Beer, Kim Koch with the President and such
By tedpk
Thu, 08/09/2018 - 11:25am
Actually, had Arnold been killed at Saratoga where he was a hero who perhaps saved the Revolution -- we would be celebrating his heroism and toasting him with a Sam Adams
Sam Adams in his patriotic fervor led his Stamp Act mob in 1765 to destroy the house and life-work of Boston-born Governor Thomas Hutchinson -- who had collected the most complete library of documents about the early history of the Mass Bay Colony and would eventually publish a three volume series
Moral of the story -- Politics is not only local [Tipster O'Neil] its also complicated
While I didn't support Donald Trump in the primaries I did vote for him in the General Election-- his platform was far superior to the others running including my neighbor
And he has delivered -- to the individual citizen -- more than any president since Ronaldus Magnus. With the present administration the Citizens whose industry together makes the country us the US and who pay the taxes to support the necessary parts as well as the rest of the bloated government -- Well we have an actual seat at the table -- just ask Jim Koch
What part of Trump's platform was superior to Johnson's?
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 08/09/2018 - 2:22pm
Go.
I did not know that
By dmcboston
Thu, 08/09/2018 - 11:31pm
"... the most complete library of documents about the early history..."
It is so much easier to destroy than to build.
" Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.â€
Robert A Heinlein
I don't care about his dinner
By Chris77
Thu, 08/09/2018 - 7:45am
I don't care about his dinner with the President, I just don't like Sam Adams. I'd rather have a 'Gansett, seriously.
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