When I started Sam Adams [in 1984], everyone thought it was a crazy idea. There were no craft breweries around, no one would lend me money, and I needed just basic nuts-and-bolts business advice.

Jim Kotch

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All of the profits from the Brewing the American Dream collaboration pack go in to … fund more loans for more small business all across the U.S., what’s really important is the pride and all the energy and hard work that small business have to put in to what they are doing just to be able to survive and hopefully prosper.

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Since 2008, we have [loaned] over $17 million... to over 1,300 small businesses in local communities across the whole country. Those businesses have created over 5,000 jobs, and we have provided coaching and counseling to over 7,000 business.

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