* The Boston Beer Company, under its " Samuel Adams " label, brews a seasonal Chocolate Bock, and has been brewing Double Bock since 1988.

Notable examples include Samuel Adams of the Boston Beer Company in Boston ( even though the recipe for the beer does not come from New England ); Sea Dog Brewing Company of Bangor ; Shipyard Brewing Company of Portland ; and Smuttynose Brewing Company of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

A variation of the Dutch Auction has been used to take a number of companies public including Morningstar, Interactive Brokers Group, Overstock. com, Ravenswood Winery, Clean Energy Fuels, and Boston Beer Company.

In September 2006, City Brewing Company agreed to purchase the brewery, and they licensed it to the Boston Beer Company in April 2007 as a satellite brewery to produce Samuel Adams beers.

It is the second largest American-owned brewery, after the Boston Beer Company, producer of Samuel Adams beer.

* In the 1990s, the Boston Beer Company produced a light beer was called Lightship, with a picture of a 19th Century lightship in rough seas on the label.

Samuel Adams is an American brand of beer brewed by the Boston Beer Company () and its associated contract brewers.

Based on sales in 2011, the Boston Beer Company is tied with Yuengling for the largest American-owned beermaker.

In December 1984, Koch left his career at Boston Consulting Group and along with Rubin and Lamadrid, founded Samuel Adams Beer.

The publicity that followed helped the Boston Beer Company's sales grow to 7, 393, 000 liters ( 63, 000 barrels ) in 1989.

Over the years, the brand has been produced under contract at various brewing facilities with excess capacity, ranging from Stroh breweries, Portland's original Blitz-Weinhard brewery ( shuttered in 1999 ), Cincinnati's Hudepohl-Schoenling brewery ( eventually purchased by the Boston Beer Company in early 1997 ), and industry giant SABMiller.

The Boston Beer Company also has a small R & D brewery located in Boston ( Jamaica Plain ), Massachusetts, where public tours and beer tastings are offered.

That year, The Boston Beer Company went public, selling shares of Class A Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange, under the ticker symbol, " SAM ".

Sales leveled off after that, and Boston Beer tried to continue its growth by offering alternative beverages, such as Hardcore Cider ( 1997 ), and Twisted Tea ( 2000 ).

With Anheuser-Busch's takeover on July 13, 2008 by Belgian-Brazilian giant InBev, and the subsequent approval of the takeover on November 12, 2008, The Boston Beer Company become the largest American-owned beer company in the United States.

As of sales in 2011, the Boston Beer Company is tied with Yuengling for largest.

The Boston Beer Company produces a variety of beer year-round: Boston Lager, Sam Adams Light, Boston Ale, Pale Ale, Cherry Wheat, Cream Stout, Coastal Wheat, Scotch Ale, Black Lager, Honey Porter, Noble Pils, and Irish Red.

The flavor, like Irish Red, Brown Ale, and Honey Porter in previous years, was the winner of The Boston Beer Company's annual beer competition, which was voted on by over 50, 000 people around the country.

The Boston Beer Company also produces Twisted Tea hard iced tea and HardCore hard apple cider, which are intentionally separate from the Samuel Adams brand.

* Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.

The original Boston Herald was founded in 1846 by a group of Boston printers jointly under the name of John A. French & Company.

It boasts one of the world's largest pipe organs, built by the Aeolian-Skinner Company of Boston.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2009.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Julia Griffiths, Boston: Jewett and Company, 1853. pp. 174 – 239.

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 2003.

Realising the War of 1812 had ruined his import business but that a market for domestic finished cloth was emerging in America, he memorised the design of textile machines, and on his return to the United States, he set up the Boston Manufacturing Company.

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company.

Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1939.

While at Harvard, he conducted the Bach Society Orchestra and was a reserve clarinetist for both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Opera Company of Boston.

* The League of Nations, Boston: Old Colony Trust Company, 1919.

Targets included three Ford showrooms ; Peugeot and IKA-Renault showrooms ; Goodyear and Firestone tire distributors, the pharmaceutical manufacturers Riker and Eli Lilly, the Union Carbide Battery Company, the Bank of Boston, Chase Manhattan Bank, the Xerox Corporation, and the soft drink companies, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.

Based on sales in 2011, Yuengling was tied with the Boston Beer Company, maker of Samuel Adams brands, as the largest American-owned brewery.

The Boston Beer Company, maker of Samuel Adams, was among the first contemporary brewers to start adding freshness dates to their product line in 1985.

To promote its signal upgrade in downtown Boston, WFNX sold all of its commercial ad time to beverage maker Snapple from Memorial Day, May 29 through Independence Day, July 4, 2006 ( both are national holidays in the United States ).

In 1989, the junk bond market collapsed, leaving First Boston unable to redeem hundreds of millions it had lent for the leveraged buyout of Ohio Mattress Company, maker of Sealy mattresses, a deal that became known as " the burning bed ".

Hank Gowdy hit. 545 ( 6 of 11 ) with five extra-base hits and also drew five walks for Boston in the series and was the difference maker in Games 1 and 3.

John Augustus ( 1785 – June 21, 1859 ) was a Boston boot maker who is called the " Father of Probation " in the United States because of his pioneering efforts to campaign for more lenient sentences for convicted criminals based on their backgrounds.

Mager was on the faculty of the New England Conservatory, and was a teacher to some of the most influential trumpeters of the mid-twentieth century, including Adolph Herseth ( who became principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ), Roger Voisin ( who replaced Mager as principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1950, Bernard Adelstein ( who became principal trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra ), Irving Sarin ( who became principal trumpet of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and respected teacher in his own right ), and Renold Schilke ( who joined the trumpet section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and later became an important trumpet maker ).

* John Augustus ( 1785 – 1859 ), Boston boot maker known as the " Father of Probation "