Join us for Beacon Grille's Beer Dinner featuring beers from Samuel Adams! Tim Riley, Beacon Grille's Beverage Manager and one of Boston Beer Company's brewmasters will orchestrate the experience. Our Chef will prepare a multi-course tasting menu paired with five beers from Boston Beer's dynamic portfolio.

Beacon Grille will again be collaborating with Giles Fine Wine of Woburn, Medford and Arlington in executing this dinner. A representative from Giles - surely one of the very finest beer and wine stores in suburban Boston - will be on hand, to assist guests who wish to order Sam Adams beers after the meal.

The price for this event is $49 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Since this event has limited seating, please make your advance reservation by September 20, 2010. There are, however, no guarantees that space will be available by September 20th.

For any questions about this special event please call 781-933-3333, or by email.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Sam Adams

While Boston Beer Company - the producers behind the Sam Adams line of beers - didn't come on the scene until the spring of 1985, their history dates back much further, to the 1860s and what was then a bustling beer scene in St. Louis, Missouri: It was there that Louis Koch, the son of a German immigrant, founded the Louis Koch brewery, and created a distinctive recipe for a heady, full-bodied lager. While coming generations of Kochs would continue in the beer business, their legacy seemed destined to end in the 1950s, as many smaller, regional breweries closed in the face of stiff competition from large-scale corporate outfits and well-equipped importers. When Jim Koch, a fifth generation descendent of Louis, graduated from high school in 1967 he never thought he would make a life in beer.

Yet after attaining a law degree from Harvard in 1978, and taking a job with the Boston Consulting Group, Koch became restless. An entrepreneur at heart, Jim closely watched the rise of the craft breweries in the late 1970s, yet as the son of a brewer, he was quick to note their faults: many of the early craft beers were inconsistent at best, often they were sour, spoiled or contaminated. Convinced he could do better, and determined to continue his family's legacy of quality beer, Jim entered the beer business, using Louis's original lager recipe as his starting point.

Koch chose the name Samuel Adams after the Boston patriot, a revolutionary thinker who fought for American independence. Adams, like Koch, was a brewer who had inherited a brewing tradition from his father. In the twenty five years since their release, Koch has grown Boston Beer Company from a tiny operation, hand-selling beers to local bars, to a powerful industry leader, now producing upwards of twenty Sam Adams beers, in addition to ciders and tea.

Despite Boston Beer's lofty status, Koch remains hands-on to the day, continuing to taste every batch of beer brewed to ensure it meets the high standards his family established so many years ago.

Beacon Grille's Beverage Manager Tim Riley

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Tim brings an intense passion for beverage service and his wide knowledge of wine, beer, and spirits to Beacon Grille. An honors graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Tim has worked all over the East Coast, including stints with Chef Cindy Wolf at Charleston in Baltimore; at the Statler Hotel in Ithaca, New York; and most recently as the Beverage Manager and Wine Director at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel.

In 2009, Tim became a Certified Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers. He has also earned a Level IV certificate from the Wine Studies program at Boston University.

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