Sam Adams...great marketing, bland microbrews overall. Summit from St. Paul is much better, and as a company just a couple years younger.
But I did try the mix-pack of Adams’ pale ales and was happy enough that I’d buy it again if I found it. Probably wouldn’t buy a 12 of any of them individually, though.
My newest favorite is the He’brew mixed pack of IPAs...Hop Manna is an absolutely fitting name and the Rye IPA is wonderful as well.
Well that is the point of the article pointed out in the first line of the article.
Many people are turned off by the trademark intense hoppyness of the IPA. The Great Lakes IPA was mellowed for the typically bland beer taste that Americans have developed post Prohibition.