# Samuel Adams has jumped the shark!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** beer\
**Created:** [December 5, 2023, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samuel-adams-has-jumped-the-shark/994131 "2023-12-05T11:31:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samuel-adams-has-jumped-the-shark/994131/87 "2024-03-04T16:58:00Z")

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Indeed,

> [@Newcastle Brown Ale has been re-imagined by Lagunitas. Re-imagined = ruined](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newcastle-brown-ale-has-been-re-imagined-by-lagunitas-re-imagined-ruined/836481/1):
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> Newcastle Brown Ale, a tasty British import Ale was a very good mild ale. Now the geniuses at Lagunitas has made a new formula for the US market and it is just bitter. No taste of ale at all. The only thing they got right was at least it is finally in a brown bottle. Now get off my lawn you damn kids.

**Bass** is not the same since the In-Bev buyout, at least not in the US. Maybe it is the same in the UK.

Lots of beers have corporate overlords that never should have bought them out.

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