FEATURED BEERS

This month we are featuring 

 some great Brews to match with St. Patty's & Easter  

Sam Adams Irish Red &

Harpoon Irish Red(Hibernian)

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THEN EASTER !!!!!

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HISTORY:

Jim Koch founded The Boston Beer Company in 1984 because he believed that Americans deserved better beer. Today, we’re a team of about 350 people, and we all share a common passion for bringing great Samuel Adams® beers to beer lovers everywhere. We've worked hard for the many successes we've enjoyed over the years. The Boston Beer Company has been cited as one of the best companies to work for by Boston Magazine, one of the Best Entry-Level Jobs by The Princeton Review, and our beers have won more awards than any beer in history. Jim has been named an "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Inc. Magazine. Our brewers keep amazing us with innovative new brews, most recently Samuel Adams Utopias and Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock.

Once a year, usually in January, everyone gathers for a company-wide meeting. The sales staff fly in from all over the country. The brewery employees and office staff join in. There’s a full agenda of meetings, seminars, team building events, and parties. One of the highlights of the meeting is a company-wide beer trivia contest. This year one of the hotel bartenders who was watching as the various teams arrived in costume with music and much whooping and fanfare, said, "I've always known Samuel Adams made the best beer in America, but now I see this is the greatest company in America." When you look around you see that The Boston Beer Company is a team of enthusiastic people who are passionate about beer and who really love coming to work every day.

The Boston Beer Company, Inc. is a publicly-traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, SAM. For financial and related information, please visit our website at www.bostonbeer.com

Samuel Adams  is proud to be an American Craft Brewer. An American Craft Brewer is defined as being Small, Independent and Traditional. We follow the Brewers Associations definition of a Craft Brewer but include a Craft Brewer who grows beyond two million barrels and continues to brew Craft Beer. We hope to be the first Craft Brewer to reach this threshold. Here is what we mean by "Craft Brewer": 

Small - Annual production of beer less than 2 million barrels or annual production of beer exceeds 2 million barrels and the brewery was founded as a Craft Brewer and continues to satisfy the other Craft Brewer defining criteria. 

Independent - Less than 25% of the Craft Brewery is owned or controlled (or equivalent economic interest) by an alcoholic beverage industry member who is not themselves a Craft Brewer. 

Traditional - A brewer who has either an all malt flagship (the beer which represents the greatest volume among that brewery's brands) or has at least 50% of its volume in either all malt beers or in beers which use adjuncts to enhance rather than lighten flavor.

The Beer:

The gentle rain and fertile soil of Ireland helped inspire this style of ale, known for being remarkably balanced. Pale and Caramel malts give the beer its rich, deep red color and distinctive caramel flavor. The sweetness of the malt is pleasantly balanced by a pronounced hop bitterness and an earthy note from the East Kent Goldings hops. Samuel Adams® Irish Red finishes smooth and leaves you wanting to take another sip.

Samuel Adams® Irish Red is our third beer to be deemed "A Beer of the People." It earned this title by winning our 2007 Beer Lover’s Choice® campaign. This was the third time we asked American beer lovers to choose our next brew. Elected by more than 42,000 people across the United States, Samuel Adams® Irish Red is our twist on a classic Irish brew. Originally brewed in Kilkenny, Ireland in 1710, Irish Red Ales are rich in flavor, yet smooth and balanced, making them ideal for warm, sunny days, yet pleasantly 
cozy during the chilly ones.

Samuel Adams® Irish Red is brewed with two-row Harrington, Metcalfe and Caramel 60 malted barley. The Harrington and Metcalfe malted barley provide most of the body and sweet backbone of the beer, while the Caramel 60 contributes to the deep red color that defines the style. To balance all of that sweetness, we use earthy East Kent Goldings and Spalt-Spalter hops. Their subtle bitterness and aroma provide a delicate complexity to the brew.

When you want a beer you want a beer, but when you want something that tastes like a rainy Sunday spent around a fireplace in the Old Country, something a little sweet and a little bitter, something so down-to-earth you can almost taste the soil the hops grew in–then you want an Irish Red.

This is a beer you can bring over to your buddy’s place to watch the game, to your parents’ friend’s place for dinner, or put a few in the fridge when your girlfriend’s coming over. It’s fun with an edge of sophistication–not a beer for the freshman who’s just drinking to get drunk–and underneath the regular bitter tang of a light beer you can actually taste that caramel twist you’ve always heard about.

This beer has a warm taste, so enjoy it in late fall or winter, especially after a long walk home in the snow. Decent with food but better alone, and great with a shot of good whiskey if that’s your style. This is the beer to get you through the winter, gentlemen.

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History:

We started the Harpoon Brewery in 1986 because—like today—we loved beer and wanted more good choices. While traveling in Europe after college, we drank many wonderfully diverse, fresh, local beers. We also saw firsthand how important local breweries were to their communities. After our travels, we asked each other, "why not bring great beer and that sense of community to New England?" That was the genesis of the Harpoon Brewery.

Twenty years later we still revel in making great beer and sharing that joy with our friends and neighbors. The success that we have had running Harpoon is due entirely to the wonderful employees who brew, package, warehouse, sell, deliver, and market our beer and you, the people who drink Harpoon. We hope that our sense of gratitude is reflected in both the quality of the beer and the spirit of fun and enjoyment surrounding our beer and breweries.

At Harpoon, we have always worked hard at two things: brewing great beer and welcoming our customers to our breweries. Our beer styles were created to provide you, our beer-drinking friends, with fresh, fun and interesting choices. We draw on numerous brewing traditions to make our beers, but we always add our own “interpretation” of how the styles can be best matched to our – and your - tastes.

We invite all of you to visit our Boston brewery, where it all began, and our beautiful brewery in Windsor, Vermont. You will see a commitment to brewing excellence and receive a warm greeting. In addition, please visit us during one of our seasonal brewery festivals – which have grown very popular since we held our first Octoberfest in 1990. Directions to both breweries, schedules of tastings, and festival information can be found in other parts of this website.

Thank you for appreciating great beer and for your continued support.



Cheers!

The Beer:

Style: Irish-style Ale 
History:
brewed since 2000 
Orig. Gravity: 14.5 P 
Color: Deep Amber 42 EBC

ABV: 5.4%
IBU’S: 25


Harpoon Hibernian is an Irish red ale. In its first year of production, it was available only on tap in the Greater Boston area. This was Harpoon’s salute to and the celebration of St Patrick. The following year it became Harpoon’s official spring seasonal beer. “Hibernian” comes from the name Hibernia, which is Latin for “winter”. This name was given to by the Romans who were unaccustomed to the land’s cold weather. 

BEER CHARACTER:
Harpoon Hibernian Ale features a deep amber color. The flavor is malty and complex. Hibernian Ale has a moderate hop finish that, along with the generous amounts of malt, makes for a medium bodied, smooth, rich beer. Try serving Hibernian with a hearty stew… the beer’s robust character will compliment the bold flavors.

The overall character is a complex maltiness with a deep amber color.

PAIRING SUGGESTIONS:
game, hearty stews

AVAILABILITY - January to March

AND SO MANY MORE GREAT BREWS FOR ST PATTY'S, EASTER OR ANY DAY

Come in & custom make yours today for your ST. Patty's or Easter Celebration or any occasion !

Stout call for St Pat's holiday in US  
By Johnny Caldwell


Guinness is very popular on St Patrick's Day 
Guinness has launched a campaign to have St Patrick's Day officially recognized as a holiday in the US. 
The campaign is centered around a petition, which it hopes one million people will sign or endorse by midnight on Sunday 16 March. 

It will then be presented to Congress the following day, which of course any Irish man, woman, child or indeed self-respecting plastic paddy will of course know is St Patrick's Day. 

The petition can be signed in bars and off-licenses - excuse my American 'liquor stores' - across the US as well as online. 

However, despite millions of Americans claiming to have at least a little bit of Irish in them, the chances of St Patrick's Day being a national holiday in the US are thought to be low. 

It would, cultural analysts say, open the flood gates for people of every nationality - actual and adopted - to call for their particular holidays 'back home' to be recognized with a holiday. 

Stout suppers 

Meanwhile, it has emerged that rumors of a demise in the popularity of the black stuff as former stout suppers opt for wine and lighter beers appear to have been greatly exaggerated. 

Figures from the first six months of 2007 show that Guinness sales increased by 3% in pubs in Ireland. It also increased its share in the off-license sector. 


The petition can be endorsed online 

But rumors still prevail about whether Guinness may actually move from its world-famous home, St James Gate in Dublin, and relocate elsewhere in the city or indeed further a field. 

A company spokesman has been quoted as saying "we're still a few months away from a final decision". 

Subsequently, it appears the issue, like a pint of Guinness, may take a while to settle... 

For further information about Guinness' campaign to have St Patrick's Day officially recognized as a holiday in the US, go to www.Proposition317.com