Jill Silverberg

Review of Boston Beer Company

I was really really excited to come to the Sam Ada...

I was really really excited to come to the Sam Adams Brewery with my friends. For almost a year, I've heard really great things about this place. Sadly, I walked out rather disappointed.

Although the tour is free and you do get to have a bunch of free tastings + a take-home prize in the form of a 7 oz glass, this tour is just blah. Maybe I was the only person not in on the secret because no one else seemed to mind the fact that we learned almost nothing about the brewing process other than how to identify hops and barely from each other. This summer I went to Harpoon and walked out feeling like I learned something. Here, it just felt like the tour guide was reading off some narrowly written script. The free beer made up for a bit of this disappointment, hence the three stars and not two.

Well, at least it was free.