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Boston Beer tests Sam Adams Light draft.


Boston Beer Co. founder Jim Koch Koch , Robert 1843-1910.

German bacteriologist who discovered the cholera bacillus and the bacterial cause of anthrax. He won a 1905 Nobel Prize for developing tuberculin.



Koch

named after Robert Koch, a German bacteriologist.
 has announced that Boston Beer Co. is test marketing Sam Adams Light draft beer in six cities.

The draft is being test marketed in Orlando, FL., Phoenix, AZ, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA, Cleveland, OH, Indianapolis, IN and Hollywood, CA.

The test began in April. "We view it as a very long-term test,"Koch told Dow Jones Dow Jones

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. "We'll let drinkers decide if they want Light on draft and see where we go from there."

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 Boston Beer, Sam Adams Light already accounts for 25% of the brewer's volume.
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Title Annotation:Weekly Specialty Beer Report
Publication:Modern Brewery Age
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 21, 2003
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