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"UK BREWER WILL MAKE SAMUEL ADAMS BEERS
British brewery Shepherd Neame will brew Samuel Adams Boston Lager for the UK market. Brewers Guardian reports that a draft version of the beer could be available to Britain's on-trade as early as mid-April. Boston Beer and
Shepherd Neame have a long-standing commercial relationship, as Shepherd Neame has acted as Boston Beer's importer for more than a decade. Jim Koch, Boston Beer's founder and chairman, told Brewers' Guardian, "The volume has grown steadily in the UK and Europe. There was a point where we thought that it would make sense to brew it in Kent." The breweries have spent almost a year working on the project. The Samuel Adams recipe will be recreated exactly at Shepherd Neame, the oldest operating brewery in England."

So Boston Lager in clear glass bottles with a hint of skunk then?

No!!! Sam Adams BUL! I hope this isn't a sign of things to come with other US beers!

"Wyldechild":25284iwr wrote: No!!! Sam Adams BUL! I hope this isn't a sign of things to come with other US beers![/quote:25284iwr]

Should make American draught craft cheaper though surely? I'd imagine there's a fierce transport cost to get beer from West Coast USA to Ireland.

"Wyldechild":2ke7tws0 wrote: No!!! Sam Adams BUL![/quote:2ke7tws0]What's the problem? Why should Faversham-brewed Boston Lager be any different from Cincinnati-brewed Boston Lager?

Because BUL is tailored to local ingredients (barley grown and malted in the US vs barley grown and malted in the UK) so the end product is rarely the same. They'll tell you it is tho.

"TheBeerNut":11o1i6jc wrote:

"Wyldechild":11o1i6jc wrote: No!!! Sam Adams BUL![/quote:11o1i6jc]What's the problem? Why should Faversham-brewed Boston Lager be any different from Cincinnati-brewed Boston Lager?[/quote:11o1i6jc]

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