The Sam Adam Brewery Tour30 Germania Street, Boston 02130
Travel Time: 10 min MBTA Orange Line to Stony Brook, 5 min walk to the brewery
Cost: Free, however they do ask for a donation for one of their local charities.
Tours Start at 10:00am and go to approximately 3:00pm, and they are every 45 min, and last for about an hour. I say approximately to 3:00pm because we were able to hop on the 3:20pm tour, aka they are liars, although I would say that these tours dont go past 4pm.
We arrived to wait in line at about 1:30pm, I would not suggest this if you want to do anything else! Get there early and plan to wait! I know drinking beer ea
rlier than 12 sounds odd, but think of it as a Keggs and Eggs morning breakfast! It was also hot out and waiting in line was brutal, and after about a good half an hour wait we were allowed on the 3:20pm tour. NOTE: They do check ID's if you want to participate in the tasting portion at the end of the tour.
With about an hour and a half to kill we took the free party bus to Doyle's. This guy is loud, obnoxious and unmissable. If you are waiting in line you will see him. The bus ride was something else, he gave you a brief history of Sam Adams, and everything else in between. I must say they have got to pay this guy well betwee
n the brewery and Doyles.
Anyway, Doyle's is the first pub in Boston that sold the Sam Adams Brew, and they have a sweet deal, if you order any Sam's at Doyle's you can keep the Sam Adams Perfect Beer Glass. (so in reality your paying $4.50 for a glass). Doyle's has great pub food, and its about a 5-10 min party bus ride, if you have the time, go!
We got back to the brewery just in time to make our tour. The inside of the brewery is super small, and not what I expected at all. But this location is really just used for research and development, so they do not need such a large facility as if they were bottling. Also, there was no A/C so if its hot out, its hot in the brewery.
We started out in a corner of the brewery, in a built stage. Our tour guide went on a very long explanation of how to make beer and the main 4 ingredients! (here is your cheat sheet for future reference: water, yeast, barley, hops). He passed around different samples of what each one looks like, minus water. And then we moved to the brewing section of the brewery, and we were able to see and hear all about the fancy machineries and processes of how to make Sam Adam
s. Note: Please do not be that person, the drunk obnoxious, loud, insulting, and has to comment on every other word that the tour guide says, person. You will elongate your tour and infuriate everyone around you, with very ugly results.
Once the whole speech is over, you finally get what you came there for, the tasting! You are brought into another room, with a bar, tables, and not enough chairs for everyone, and given a free 5oz sampling glass to hear your tour guide talk even more. However, this was the more interesting part of the tour, and I may have even learned a thing or two.
First it is how to taste the beer, and some stories and blah blah blah. Then you get the original Sam Adams beer, this was really interesting and after this
tasting I really appreciated and enjoyed Sam's, which I guess is the whole point. The 2nd beer is the Sam's Seasonal, which in this case is the Sam's Summer, and one of my favorite beers, so I clearly enjoyed that. The third beer was the coolest beer, and I say that because it is the beer that supports the Sam Adams Brewing the American Dream. Which is an operation started by the Boston Beer Co, to give about $250,000 in micro-loans every year to small food/drink companies. It was a called a Boston Brick Red, which unfortunately is only available in the Northeast Region, but for every purchase of the Brick Red, additional funds are donated by Sam Adams. So if you ever see that beer on tap, I would suggest ordering a pint.
With all this being said, the tour took close to an hour to complete, thanks to that person, but I would do it again in a heartbeat! If you're over 21, make sure you do this!!!
Don't Forget to Check Out Their Website: http://www.samueladams.com/share-passion/tours.aspx
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