Sam Adams Beer Microbox

Beer Series

Sam Adams Beer

Placed By: Silver Eagle
Date: 06/14/06
Nearest Town: Boston, MA
County: Suffolk
Terrain Difficulty: Easy (flat, 400 yards RT)
Recommended Ink: brown & blue
Status: reported missing (10/14/07)

For the first 35 years of his life, Jim Koch's family history and future career lay in the attic of his parents' house. Tucked away was an old family recipe from the 1800s for Louis Koch Lager. For five generations, the men in the Koch family were brewmasters, but the market for full-flavored beer had diminished and it seemed Jim's father would be the last Koch to carry on the tradition of brewing flavorful beer. However, in the early 1980's Jim became convinced that he could build a niche in the competitive beer market for a high-quality American beer. Using the same recipe and traditional brewing processes that his great-great grandfather used, Jim brewed Samuel Adams Boston Lager® and took beer to a whole new level. Jim chose the name Samuel Adams after the Boston patriot, a revolutionary thinker who fought for American independence. Samuel Adams was also a brewer who had inherited a brewing tradition from his father. The beer made its debut in Boston on Patriot's Day in April 1985, and six weeks later was selected as "The Best Beer in America" in The Great American Beer Festival's Consumer Preference Poll. Since 2000, Samuel Adams® has won more awards in international beer tasting competitions than any other brewery in the world. You can learn more about this great beer by visiting the Samuel Adams Brewery, but to get this microbox you will need to visit Arnold Arboretum located nearby. So come for a tour and a taste, then walk it off looking for this box.

Directions:

To get to Arnold Arboretum from downtown Boston, take Storrow Drive west to the Kenmore Square/Fenway Route 1 south exit. Bear left and follow signs for Fenway/Route 1 south. Bear right onto Boylston Street, following signs for Boylston Street Outbound/Riverway Route 1. Continue on Boylston for 0.4 miles at which point it turns into Brookline Avenue. Stay on Brookline Avenue for .5 mile, then take a left onto the Riverway/Jamaicaway. Follow Riverway/Jamaicaway to a rotary at Jamaica Pond (on your right). Follow signs for South Dedham/Providence. Enter the next rotary and take the second exit onto Route 203 east. The Arboretum's main entrance is about 50 yards past the rotary, on the right. Parking is available outside the main gate, along the Arborway, and around the Arboretum’s perimeter.

Clues:

Walk through the gate on the main road past the Visitor Center on the right for about 100 yards to the Bridle Path branching off to the right. Follow it for about 100 yards to a Burr Oak on the right about 5 steps off the path. The camo microbox is behind the tree at its base under some rocks. Please rehide well.

NOTE: Always take adequate precautions (such as prodding with a stick and/or wearing gloves) before reaching into dark crevasses and holes in the wild. Before you set out read the waiver of responsibility and disclaimer.

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