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Samuel Adams Boston Brewery - Jamaica Plain
Redbrick brewery complex now a working taproom, once home to a notorious malt liquor brand.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Samuel Adams Boston Brewery in Jamaica Plain traces a green forty-ounce bottle still sitting behind the taproom glass, the last trace of a malt liquor once nicknamed the Green Death, brewed here from 1953 under the name Haffenreffer Private Stock. You'll hear how basketball star Wilt Chamberlain fronted its ads, and how the industry's marketing to Black neighborhoods and Black radio drew public health criticism and pushback. It follows the brand's path from this brick building through breweries in three other states before it disappeared for good.
This audio guide was created using AI.