Last year, almost a year to the date, I met Jim Koch for the first time. Since then, I have had some chance meetings with the founder of the Boston Beer Company, most notably at his Sam Adams brunch in Denver last September. At that brunch, the entire menu was cooked with Sam Adams beers. Jim always wants to be the guy that does something first, and if not first, then best.
When you run out of firsts… and bests, sometimes you need to look back through the past to see where you are going in the future.
This year, Jim has done just that. He looked WAY into the past. Jim studied the correspondences of some of our founding fathers and duplicated their brewing recipes as closely as humanly possibly. He actually went as far as getting a cord of oak from James Madison’s estate to malt the barley for his Dark Wheat to keep it authentic. Read the rest of this entry »
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