They were very friendly. Who can beat a free beer tour. They had an event going on while I was there. Everyone was enjoyable and had a really nice time. Would highly recommend a visit. Even if you aren't that into beer.
Great tour! Due to the closed subway and getting rerouted on buses we were a few minutes late for the last tour, but they let us join them anyhow. Our guide, Tomas, was wicked smart when it comes to Samuel Adams beer.
Great guide! Very informative in the beer making process! The beer tasting was amazing too!
Great tour and beer tasting! All for free ($2 donation recommended)
Excellent service, courtesy and entertainment in one place.
Great free tour. Nice explanation, good location. A little hard to find. Beer tasting was awesome and our tour guide was really nice!
The free tour is probably 30-45 minutes long and you get about 16oz of beer. They don t take you around too much of the brewery. The last beer we had was beer they were testing to see if they should bring it to market. The gift shop is reasonably priced unlike your average end of the Disney ride souvenir shop. The tap room is nice with about 20 beers on tap.
Brewery tour was great and interesting. Live music was really cool along with the competitions.
Natalia was a knowledgeable and delightful tour guide. Three tasty beers were offered for tasting. We are now Samuel Adams fans.
Loved the Bierkeller experience! Great to try something different in terms of beer and cheese! Highly recommend and highly recommend the tap room after, especially for anyone not from the area and unlikely to try some of the good beer produced here.
Our host was also excellent, a shame he is leaving in 2 weeks!
Free beer this is normally a myth on the level of big foot or el chupacabra but this brewery tour is like finding one of these mythical beasts. Went with a group of four buddies had an absolute blast got a great enthusiastic guide and we were some of the youngest on the tour so got to drink other tables left over pitchers of delicious FREE beer. Highly recommend heading to Doyle's after for some more pints, rubens, chowder. Doyle's! But said enough said elixir of the gods for free why not plus we got sweet tasting glasses and Sam Adams pint glasses.
We did the morning mash-in tour and we were very happy. We tasted several beers and learned about the history and the process. It's also nice to know that the owner does things to give back to the he community and to the micro-brewing community.
Great tour, lots of beer sampling afterwards, voluntary donations all going to local charities. What's not to love?
Great Tour!!! A must see everytime I'm in Boston. Staff friendly and knowledgeable and Brewery very clean and organized. Tours are priced just right
Great experience to do small group in Boston. The guided tour lasts approximately 1 hour. Morning Mash visit at $ 10 in the morning is a visit to which extras are added. The beer tasting at the end of the visit is really well organized and the staff is passionate and gives excellent explanations
The tour was really interesting and included beer sampling, what's not to love?
This was a great experience at the brewery. They really explain the history of there brewery. It is a must go to in a lifetime. Cheers!
The tour was really interested, the beer was delicious, and our tour guide Audrey was HILARIOUS! Definitely worth a stop (and even a return trip)!
Great tour! Very informational and fun. Highly recommend going.
We took a free tour of the brewery. Our guide was personable and knowledgeable. Without cost, we were able to sample different brews as the differences in them were explained to us in detail. We REALLY enjoyed our visit.
Great to get to the taphouse. Visited 4 years ago and was disappointed by the lack of one. It's a serious addition
I toured the brewery in August of 2013 and it was a great way to spend a couple of hours in the afternoon. The tour guides, Eric and Brendan, were hilarious and informative and the tasting was lots of fun. I would definitely do it again if I'm in town, and the best part is it's free!
Had a blast with some friends touring the place and trying several beers that are not usually available in my hometown.
Good, informative tour, free beer and a small souvenir glass, what's not to love!
Nice beers but better options available, lil too busy to attend their customers
Funny, short and informative tour of the Sam Adams brewery. This is where they invent their new flavors, not where they actually produce the beer for major distribution. Definitely worth a stop - if not for the free tour then for the free beer ;)
Just tried the Sam 76 ! this is a very poor beer sorry, I Love Sam Lager and Sam Ale This is like two cheap beers with grapefruit juice mixed in, 10 bucks down the drain..... Sorry
There will be no more Sam Adams beer in this house. Jim Koch may be enjoying his pay raise, compliments of the recent tax law. I sincerely hope he has shared his generous pay raise with his hard working employees, but I cannot support the business of anyone so short-sighted.
I will never buy or consume your products again. Have fun with the non drinking president. Support for him or any policy he pushes makes you a partner in his crimes against the People of USA and the World.
Too bad I did like your products. I just threw out 2 cases for a party, I would rather drink water.
So much fun. Sam Adams beer is so delicious in person and so fresh where it is actually brewed. Huge difference from drinking the beer in a bottle. Worth it!
Go on the tour! Such a fun experience. Our host was amazing and they gave us so many free samples. You ll definitely walk out feeling a little tipsy (if you want). You also get to try a rotating new tap flavor!
Would recommend this for couples or parents visiting kids in college or tourists.
Awesome spot. A good sense of the flavor of Boston. Mix of history and sense of community. Some exclusive pours on tap in the tasting room.
A fun/informative (FREE) tour will teach the brewery's history; experience the entire process (start to finish), and then have (FREE) drinks in your (FREE) tasting glass! Pro Tip: Mail out a postcard (FREE) from the lobby of the store + stay near the back of the tour on the third stop (the large steel barrel room) to get a prime seat in the tasting room. Food @ Doyle's (via shuttle) afterward.
Guided tour with tasting. The tour is quick, and not so deep about the beer making process, as the visitor is more interested in drinking his own at a manufacturer !!!. In the end, as always, the shop, very good by the way, and the bar serving all SAMUEL ADAMS beers. I'll be back for sure !!! You who read my comments and see my photos, put the likes to the end !!
It was a fun tour for all ages. Not too long. Kids get a root beer at tasting time and can hang out it the bar area after. You get to taste established beers and test a new one. Then you can vote to help the company decide to push it to production. Apparently there is also a $30 tour that gives you barrel beer tasting and a cheese plate but we took the free tour
We had a side conversation with our guide who explained that they were doing an internal competition and whomever won could produce their beer at larger scale. Staff is super nice.
We loved the free brewery tour at Sam Adams in Boston. Our tour guide was Sarah....she gave us great info on how they brew the beer and we got to taste 3 different beers for free!!! As we tasted Sarah explained how to judge beer and what to look for and taste!!! Sarah also was so helpful in giving my husband and I directions to the subway to get back into downtown.......she went way beyond to help us!!! Take the tour!!!
This place is great! We took the tour and our tour guide, Chris, was hilarious!
Incredible experience. The guide was very nice. They are totally free. Worth it
Best beer! Who doesn't love a free your and FREE beer! Great to see the brewery of my favorite beer. Gift shop was great, but they had a tap handle that had chipped paint, I told them I would buy it for a discounted price and they told me they throw them away if they're defective.
The tour was fun, brief (45mins), and just the right amount of information. The tastings are at the end of the tour and include known beers such as Boston Lager and Summer Ale, as well as specialty beers like Blueberry Whip. Then you can hangout in the tasting room with outdoor seating.
It's a cool tour and free beer so I really should not complain. Not the actual large production facility though. It's more of a skunk works and competition batch brew house. But hey, free beer!
Great experience, quick tour of the plant and process. Then off to sample. You get three glass fulls and a souvenir glass. Full bar available for purchase as well.
Very informative and delicious free tours. This is a testing brewery, so there are some flavors they will only feature here as they may not ever hit thr shelves in stores. Definetly a must do if you going to Boston.
Good tour, lots of free beer, pretty interactive tour as I have been many tours, the tasting room gets a little chilly but free tour, free beer, more than the people could drink, what more can you ask for?
We had a great time on the tour! Also picked up a growler to go that we enjoyed back at the hotel! Worth the trek.
Enjoyed the tour. Specially the last part of the tour - beer tasting.
Go on the free tour and get free beer at the end! Win Win!
Dan and Jackson are amazing!! Great tour!! Would recommend to all!! Great beautiful tasting room!! And fantastic people!! The tasting at the end was well run and informative!! The Brut IPA taste was the best!!!
Came on a Wednesday morning, very short, small basic tour about how beer is made. Get to sample 3 beers, gift shop is small. I really wanted to see more of the brewery and their processes.
This famous brewery is everything you expected and more. My husband and I decided to check out Sam Adams during our Boston visit. We didn t want to partake in the 1 hour long free tour as we had been traveling most of the day. We were welcomed into the brewery, talked to a brewmaster that gave us two flights based on our preferences. We were completely trustworthy and not disappointed. It was a Friday afternoon and though the brewery was filled indoors and out, it was fun and full of life. They had a great playlist of alternative classic pop punk and rock bands from the 2000 s, which encouraged complete strangers to sing along together. My husband and I were on an empty stomach and thankfully there was a vendor there selling chicken empanadas (a little dry but tasty).
The great selections of sours, IPA s, blondes and unique combinations was perfection. I actually thoroughly enjoy sours but these one had more of a delicate tang on your tongue, wow! The Moscow Mule beer (highly recommended by the brewtender) was my absolute favorite. I also loved the Dry Irish Stout. I m not a huge IPA fan, however these were comfortable and tasty. My husband and I had a great time here and enjoyed our flight so much. We were very happy with the friendly and knowledgeable staff and efficiency during the busy Friday afternoon. Keep up the wonderful work everyone!
Do the Bier Keller tour! If you are familiar with how beer is made save yourself some time and enjoy this tour. Rare tastings of barrel aged beers in the barrel cellar with very knowledgeable staff make for a great tour. 45 minutes and $30 for tastings of beers that are not available on the open market is a win. The beers are paired with delightful cheeses that help bloom the flavor and provide a nice counterpoint to the often boozy aspects of the barrel aged beers. Toast the newfound knowledge in the taproom with 16 beers on tap and a shuffleboard table to test your skills!
Cool place, the bar has great choices for flights. Don't buy the t-shirts, $20 bucks and fell apart after 3 washes.
Awesome time !! Steve was very funny and informational, I really enjoyed the tour!! Would do this again next time!!
have a better beer than the other, it was an incredible visit I recommend.
Tour was amazing. Greg and Jackson were especially entertaining as well as knowledgeable of the process.
Good tour, i liked the 26.2 in honor of Boston marathon
My husband and U took the tour was wonderful and our tour guide she was so adorable just loved her....i bought the coffe pale ale beer its delicious, would love to get a case of that....thank you everyone at Samuel Adams Brewery for a wonderful addition to our vacation...
Great beer, great gear, and awesome service. All your tips go to Charity too which is pretty cool.
Great spot to visit in Boston....Check out the other local breweries like Dorchester Brewery if you have the time
One of the highlights of Boston. Chris T and Preston were the best tour guide and bartender duo I could have imagined
It was a super fun the tour! Got to try a bunch of the experimental brews which they primarily brew out of this location; the original Sam Adams location. I learned the proper way on how to taste beer! Our tour guide Dani was great! She was super knowledgable and friendly. I had no idea Sam Adams won that many awards! It was impressive! Definitely is a must visit Brewery in Boston.
Side note: It was a little confusing on finding the entrance but we found it. Parking was a little tough too.
If your a beer fan then this is a no brainer with free beer at the end.
Love the beer, happy it was founded in Boston! I will be happy to sacrifice myself and drink the Somerville mayors share of San Adams beer! Keep up the great work. New England ipa, the new juice 3 are amazing!!!
#CaitIsGreat. She was funny, entertaining, and knowledgeable. I usually don't care about hearing "how it's made" but she turned the boring stuff into a good time. For the tasting, sit in the back towards the middle.. pitchers end up on your table so you can enjoy more than one glass.
Not bad. Guinness is better soooo far!!
The tour is not long but they have no system production in comparison with the Guinness.
Free entrance and tour, free degustation of beer and they give you the glass as a gift.
The Gift Shop, small and not too much products to choose. Guinness shop: amazing.
The beer: excellent.
Free tour (first one seems to start at 0940) with copious and varied free beer afterwards. The guide was exceptionally engaging and funny.
The most fun tour in Boston!! Thanks Brody!! Sorry about the spill
Tour of facility wasn't extensive. But commentary was informative of the beer brewing process and funny. Complimentary sampling of three products. Thanks Ryan D.
Did the Bierkeller tour on a rainy afternoon with Nora as our guide! We were pleasantly surprised with the three aged beers that were available. Nora did a good job of explaining the process behind each of the beers and matching it with the two cheeses that were available from a local farm. After the tour, we were given time to look around in the barrel room which is filled to the ceiling with barrels from various scotch and whiskey companies. For $30 a person, you receive three beer samples, two cheese samples, and a souvenir glass. Worth every penny.
