Boycott Sam Adams

So even though they try to play it off like they're a cool beer company, the makers of Sam Adams are actually a bunch of pricks. There is a member of the Portland City Council, a semi-decent guy, named Sam Adams. He happens to be running for mayor of Portland. So what happens when a couple of his backers start setting up websites to support his campaign like samadamsformayor.com and mayorsamadams.com? The Boston Brewing Company, maker of Samuel Adams beer starts throwing lawyers at the problem, threatening to sue the real Sam Adams for trademark infringement and other bogus charges. Willamette Week has a copy of the actual cease and desist letter they sent.

The spokesman for The Boston "Soon Falling Into The Sixth Level of Hell Alongside Wal-Mart" Brewing Company actually said she is "willing to discuss Adams' use of his name on his Web sites."

To which the real Sam Adams responded, "They say they've been using this trademark since 1984, I've been using it since 1963."

I will be boycotting all Sam Adams products for the near future. I hope you will all join me.

PS: Bill Belichick is a cheater, the Red Sox are new Yankees, and the Celtics still suck.

UPDATE: An informed reader in Portland was kind enough to leave us a link of a more robust account of this controversy. Thanks, Rusty: LINK