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Charles Joseph Koch, Jr., brewmaster, now retired, worked for many years brewing traditional full-flavored beers. He studied at the Siebel Institute for Brewing Studies at a time when there were more than 600 breweries in the United States, but he left the industry in the late 1950s as Americans’ taste for full-flavored beers waned. Mr. Koch founded Chemicals, Inc., a distribution company of brewing and industrial chemicals, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked until he retired. It was Charles Koch who gave his son, Jim, the recipe for the brew that became Samuel Adams Boston Lager®, a beer his great grandfather brewed in the middle of the 19th century. | 