Samuel Adams Beer

    • Location: Boston, Massachusetts
    • Publicly traded
    • Opened: 1985
    • Produces 159,358,000 liters per year
    • 2006 Sales: $285.4 Million
    • Is the 6th largest brewery in the United States
    • Market share is ½ of 1% of the U.S. beer market
    • NYSE ticker Symbol: SAM
  • Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Company) is America's largest microbrewer. Sam Adams produces more than 25 varieties of craft-brewed beers. Annually, it sells more than 1.3 million barrels of lager, ales, cider and malt beverages.
  • Beer Recall 2008

    The Boston Beer Company was forced to issue a recall in April 2008. It was the first recall in the company's history. Defects were found in bottles manufactured by a third-party supplier. The Boston Beer Company issued a statement that they believed less than one percent of the supplier's bottles may have contained small pieces of glass. For safety reasons, a recall was instated. While there were no injuries reported from bottles containing glass, company shares fell 3 percent because of the incident.

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