Sam Adams

Well it's my final post featuring my New York trip, and I have spun it out over a couple of weeks. I'll try and keep the post brief. Basically I picked up a couple of Sam Adams beers from a mixed business. Sam Adams had something to do with revolutionary America and his name is now a brand that represents the Boston Beer Company. The Boston Beer Co. was born in 1985 by Jim Koch and has seen significant growth with the rise of the craft brewing segment in the US. The beers are well distributed and are relatively easy to track down here in the UK and literally everywhere in the USA. I picked up the Boston Ale and the White Ale. The Boston Ale is malty and the relationship between it's cousin (Boston Lager) is evident from the first sip. The White Ale was a little disappointing and like most American Wheat beers, lacked any complexity and was pretty one dimensional. http://www.samueladams.com

That sums up my trip to NYC. I may not have been to the beer mecca that is the Blind Tiger or some of the other haunts, but I did track down some interesting beer. One thing that I really did like is that most venues had at least 7 or 8 craft brewed beers on draught at any one time. There are not too many pubs in the UK that can lay claim to this and I see it as the key benefit of kegging over cask. Each has their place, but in all seriousness the keg is too quickly dismissed in the UK.