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Taste

This beer is very tasty. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hugelabia (talk • contribs) 23:23, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Not sure if this is worth mentioning or not, but Peter Griffin, the fictional main character of the animated series Family Guy, often drinks a beer called "Pawtucket Patriot Ale" with a revolutionary war soldier on the can. It's clearly an obviously a homage to Samuel Adams. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.111.192.5 (talk) 17:22, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Name

I was bold and moved the page to Samuel Adams (beer), as the company is much better known as Samuel Adams than "Boston Beer Company".--Cúchullain t/c 15:14, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted this a little over a year and a half later. The article is primarily about the company, not one of their lines of beers. Samuel Adams (beer) now redirects. jheiv talk contribs 03:20, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Isn't this a case of WP:COMMONNAME? And I would argue that the article appears to be as much or more about the beer line as the company itself. --Fru1tbat (talk) 04:46, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think so -- articles about companies are, for the most part, titled using name of the company itself, even if it has one product that stands out as flagship (e.g. H. J. Heinz Company, The J.M. Smucker Co.). In all honesty, I haven't read the article in a few months so I may be hazy on the focus -- but as a craft-beer enthusiast (including beers formerly known as craft), I'll work on adding content, rounding out the article about the company. jheiv talk contribs 05:29, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I went ahead and reverted it back (the move also caused some mess with the talk page archives). I think this is pretty clearly a case of common name. "Samuel Adams" is the best known name for the company and the brand, not to mention the beer itself (have they ever made a beer without the Sam Adams name?), even by the company itself. The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Beer confirms, "[Jim Koch's] beers are better known by the Samuel Adams name" (p. 143).--Cúchullain t/c 21:10, 18 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please use the history

Please, people, use the history when reverting vandalism to make sure that you know what it is you're supposed to be fixing. 24.128.180.171 vandalised [[White Ale]] to [ Noble Piles]; some would-be do-gooder came along and blithely "fixed" it to [ Noble Pils]. Still not a link, still with an unnecessary leading space, still not correct. To top it off, the Boston Beer Company does not yet offer a "Noble Pils" (it won't debut until Winter 2010), and the section in question is about beers that are already available. If you aren't going to bother to verify the original pre-vandalised text, any change you make is no better than the vandalism you're failing to correct. 98.211.124.111 (talk) 19:17, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Descriptions

Many of the beer descriptions are direct quotations off the bottles. For instance, the description of "Coastal Wheat" is found on the neck of Coastal Wheat bottles, and is a direct quotation of the cited publicity materials. Is this proper? I'm not very clear on citation guidelines, but I feel like direct quotation of a company's promotional material is not exactly what Wikipedia is about. If nothing else, it is not clearly marked as a quotation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.5.137.223 (talk) 05:18, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lambic criticism

Unfortunately for the criticism section, the Lambic article itself admits that most of the yeast is located within the fermenting vessels. --THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE 16:17, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Whether it comes from the air or from the vessels, the yeast that ferments Belgian lambic is "wild", that is, it is not added in regulated doses, nor is a specific strain chosen. In contrast, the Boston Brewing Company adds a specific strain of yeast in controlled doses in order to start fermentation at a prescribed time and for a prescribed interval. This would be the opposite of the intent of Belgian lambic brewers. The Boston Beer Company admits the product is not a Belgian lambic. (See Grant Woods quotation in article.) Guinness323 (talk) 16:33, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Possibly, but did you actually read what the Lambic article says? It actually cites the primary yeast strains. --THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE 20:04, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You are missing the point. Just because we know the primary yeast strains doing the work and where they reside does not mean that Belgian brewers can count upon the same proportion of each, or indeed any of them at all. Depending on how much yeast from each strain decides to work, and what type of airborne yeast falls into the wort, there is a goodly amount of uncertainty about how each batch will taste. In contrast, the Boston Brewing Company brewer knows exactly how each batch of Cranberry "Lambic" will taste: exactly the same as the previous batch. Guinness323 (talk) 21:14, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Utopias: "The Worlds Strongest Beer"

I take issue with the freeze distillation used by many of the brewers claiming "strongest beer in the world." I tracked down a reference and cleaned up the section. In principle, anybody could freeze and refreeze Bud Light until it's in excess of 27% alcohol. It's my understanding that Sam Adams actually bred yeast to withstand that higher alcohol content. Stardude82 (talk) 20:13, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ignoring the argument on whether freeze distillation is or is not exceptable the beer listed as 57% is not longer the worlds strongest, can someone find out who is at 60% and find an article to verifyDwarvenbierschneeman (talk) 05:06, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Triple Bock Date

I have not edited this article but I think the commentary could be slightly improved in accuracy.

I do not believe that the Triple Bock was *originally* released in 1994. I had the beer in the spring of 1993 in College Station when a promotional sales person in Dudley's Draw offered them for sale in 12 oz bottles for two dollars each. The price later dropped to $1 each and a couple free by the end of the evening. The bottle was labeled as "malt liquor", oddly enough, but I had no idea of the alcohol content as I had several and woke a few hours later in my apartment with only a hazy memory of having left the bar under my own power. I never found the Triple Bock in 12 oz bottles but suspect the same or very similar beer was what I drank as what is now sold as the Triple Bock in the smaller bottles. I don't seem to recall that the beer was not carbonated but it had the feel of light carbonation. It was extremely potent, to say the least so I wasn't surprised when I saw it sold in smaller bottles as an apertif rather than as a regular beer.

The Sam Adams website confirms the 1993 brew date, as the inauguration of their extreme beer brewing.

Can anyone shed some light on this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.12.205.82 (talk) 19:44, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Missing beers

Don't they have more beers than this? I can think of a few off of the top of my head: Bonfire Ale (or something similar); Chocolate Bock. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.48.159.183 (talk) 23:28, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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