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　　beer, I thought. Why not make good beer for Americans using my family way?

　　I decided to quit my job to become a brewer. When I told Dad, I was hoping he’d put his arm around me and get

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　　about continuing tradition. Instead he said, “Jim, that is the

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　　thing I’ve ever heard!”

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　　Dad objected, in the end he became my new company’s first

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　　, coughing up(支付) $40,000 when I opened the Boston Beer Company in 1984. Going from my fancy office to being a brewer was like mountain climbing: exciting, liberating and

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　　. All my safety nets were gone.

　　Once the beer was made, I faced my biggest

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　　yet: no one had ever heard of it. I needed a name that was

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　　and elegant, so I called my beer Samuel Adams,

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　　the brewer and patriot(爱国者)who helped to found the Boston Tea Party.

　　The only way to get the word out, I realized, was to sell direct. I filled my briefcase with beer and

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　　every bar in Boston. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager won the top prize for American beer. The rest is history. It wasn’t supposed to

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