According to Sam Adams it took its brewers from its nano brewery in Jamaican Plain neighborhood of Boston 60 different test brews to perfect the final recipe of Sam ’76. To unite these two vastly different styles of beer the brewers began the brew with two active fermentations, one a top fermented ale and the other a bottom fermented lager. Each of these base beers were then combined during a final maturation step when both yeast depend on each other during a so called tag team fermentation. This beer then had a late addition dry hopping that creates a unique beer that is now brewed on a large scale.

Upon sampling this new Sam ’76 first thing we noticed that this sessionable beer at 4.7% ABV is different from other beers in the session category. Not as crisp as a lager such as Sam Adam’s delightful Noble Pils and less hoppy than that of a standard Pale Ale, Sam ’76 is still an easy drinking light bodied beer.