Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams is the flagship brand of The Boston Beer Company, founded in Boston, Massachusetts by Jim Koch in 1984. Koch's Boston Lager — brewed from a family recipe dating to the 1860s and first sold in 1985 — helped spark the American craft beer revolution at a time when the US market was dominated almost entirely by industrial lagers. Today the brewery produces a wide range of styles anchored by Boston Lager, including a beloved seasonal series that has become one of the most recognised craft ranges in the country.
Beers by Samuel Adams
10 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Samuel Adams brew a broad range across 4 style families.
Across these 10 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Their beers place in the Top 26% of the catalogue on average, across 10 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams is the flagship brand of The Boston Beer Company, founded in Boston, Massachusetts by Jim Koch in 1984. Koch's Boston Lager — brewed from a family recipe dating to the 1860s and first sold in 1985 — helped spark the American craft beer revolution at a time when the US market was dominated almost entirely by industrial lagers. Today the brewery produces a wide range of styles anchored by Boston Lager, including a beloved seasonal series that has become one of the most recognised craft ranges in the country.
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