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Jim Koch is the founder of The Boston Beer Company and brewer of Samuel Adams. He founded the company in 1984 using his great-great grandfather's recipe. Samuel Adams Boston Lager has led the American craft beer revolution for more than 30 years, bringing full-flavored beer to the American beer landscape. The Boston Beer Company has become the leading American craft brewery with annual sales of $904 million, totaling 1% of the U.S. beer market.

Charles James Koch (/kʊk/ KUUK; born May 27, 1949) is an American entrepreneur, billionaire, co-founder, and chairman of the Boston Beer Company, the producer of Samuel Adams beer. Koch is widely considered the founding father of the American craft brewing movement.

Koch was born in Cincinnati on May 27, 1949, one of four children born to German-American parents Charles and Dorothy Koch (née Kautz). Charles was a fifth-generation brewer. Koch earned a Bachelor of Arts, Juris Doctor, and Master of Business Administration from Harvard University.

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