SAMUEL ADAMS 2O14 LONGSHOT AMERICAN HOMEBREW WINNERS

THE BREWERS at Samuel Adams announce the latest in a line of talented and imaginative LongShot American Homebrew Contest winners, at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver – craft beer’s most celebrated gathering. This year’s winners include Forestville, California resident Greg Rasmussen’s Robust Porter, Smithtown, New York resident Matthew Knott’s Classic Rauchbier and Samuel Adams employee John Marra’s Dunkelweiss. (Samuel Adams also recognizes the ambitious and adventurous brewing spirit of its own employees and chooses an annual employee homebrew winner alongside two consumer winners) The three winners will now be able to share their homebrewed creations with craft beer lovers across the country when these winning brews are bottled and made available nationwide next spring as part of the 2O15 Samuel Adams LongShot variety six-pack.

Samuel Adams founder and brewer Jim Koch has been hosting the annual LongShot homebrew contest since 1995 to recognize and honor American homebrewers who continue to push boundaries and challenge the notion of what beer can be, just as he did in his kitchen 3O years ago when he first brewed what would become Samuel Adams Boston Lager.