The Boston Beer Company (NYSE: SAM) is an American brewing company founded in 1984 by Jim Koch and lead investors Harry Rubin and Lorenzo Lamadrid in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The beers were originally contract brewed by the Pittsburgh Brewing Company, though today, approximately 35% of its beer is produced at the company's Cincinnati brewery. The brand name for the beers is Samuel Adams (often abbreviated to Sam Adams, even in advertisements), after Samuel Adams, an American patriot famous for his role in the American Revolution, who, according to tradition, was also a brewer.

Sam Adams's portrait generally appears on the front of each bottle. It is the largest American owned brewery. The Samuel Adams brand began with Samuel Adams Boston Lager.

The original recipe was developed in 1860 in St. Louis, Missouri by Louis Koch, who sold under the name Louis Koch Lager until Prohibition, and again until the early 1950s. In 1985, the recipe was reformulated by Louis Koch's great-great grandson, Jim Koch, with the help of Joseph Owades, the man credited with the invention of light beer in the 1970s.

That April, the beer was re-introduced as Samuel Adams Boston Lager, at the re-creation of the first battle of the American Revolution on Patriot's Day. Three months later, it was voted best beer in the United States at the Great American Beer Festival, in which 93 national and regional beers competed. The publicity that followed helped the Boston Beer Company's sales grow to 7,393,000 liters (63,000 barrels) in 1989.

The beer was first put on tap at Doyle's Cafe in Jamaica Plain.

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