Making Samuel Adams beer (photos)
This is a carbon filter, which is used to clean the Boston city tap water that Samuel Adams uses in its beer. The idea is to clean the water but leave in some of the minerals, particularly the calcium.
Click here to read the related story on the Samuel Adams brewery, and click here to check out the entire Road Trip 2010 package.While Samuel Adams is best known for its signature Boston Lager, it also makes many other beers. This is the Sam Adams Barrel Room, where some of its latest--and most special--beers are fermented.
Click here to read the related story on the Samuel Adams brewery, and click here to check out the entire Road Trip 2010 package.In order to make its three "Barrel Collection" beers, Sam Adams starts with a Belgian red wort and leaves it to ferment for months in these giant barrels, which were originally used by an Italian sherry distillery.
Click here to read the related story on the Samuel Adams brewery, and click here to check out the entire Road Trip 2010 package.Barrels are piled high in the Sam Adams Barrel Room.
Click here to read the related story on the Samuel Adams brewery, and click here to check out the entire Road Trip 2010 package.Samuel Adams employees work on filling bottles of the brewery's specialty beer, American Kriek.
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These are the three Barrel Collection beers: New World Tripel, American Kriek, and Stony Brook Red. The bottles are 750 milliliters, the same size as a normal bottle of wine.
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Later this year, Samuel Adams and the German brewer Weihenstephan, will partner on a joint brew, known as Infinium. The beer will be based on a joint recipe, and will be produced in Germany and in Boston.
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A wall of barrels greet anyone who enters the brewing room.
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Much like the Boston Celtics, which hangs its championship banners from the rafters of the Boston Garden, Samuel Adams hangs banners celebrating its prizes at various beer festivals.
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