Who owns Angry Orchard?
Angry Orchard is owned by Boston Beer (the United States, NYSE: SAM).[1]
Evidence: The Boston Beer Company, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-24, SEC EDGAR, 24 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Boston Beer Company, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Boston, Massachusetts
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 2011
- Category
- Beverages › Beer › Cider
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: SAM
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Angry Orchard
Angry Orchard launched in 2011 and became the largest hard cider brand in the United States within two years, in a market where cider had almost no presence. Boston Beer built it from a research project into apple varieties. Its Crisp Apple style is deliberately sweeter than English or French cider, which is what made it accessible to American beer drinkers.
What Boston Beer's annual report says about Angry Orchard
Sentences about Angry Orchard from Boston Beer's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
The Angry Orchard brand was launched in 2011 and since 2013, Angry Orchard has been the largest selling hard cider in the United States.
This category is small and highly competitive and the competition consists mostly of many small regional and local hard cider companies. 5 The Company offers over ten styles of hard cider in the Angry Orchard brand family, most of which are available nationally in the United States in various bottle, can, and keg packages.
The majority of the promotional and distribution efforts for the Angry Orchard brand family are focused on Angry Orchard Crisp Apple, Angry Orchard Crisp Imperial and Angry Orchard Seasonal Variety Packs.
How often Boston Beer names Angry Orchard in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Angry Orchard
- Current owner Boston Beer [1] verified
Where Angry Orchard sits in Boston Beer
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Boston Beer
Boston Beer controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
- Dogfish Head (1995)
- Samuel Adams (1984)
- Truly (2016)
- Twisted Tea (2001)
Other brands in cider, and who owns them
The 22 brands in cider on Brandtree belong to 12 owners. The largest is C&C Group, with 4; Boston Beer has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bulmers | C&C Group | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| Thatchers Cider | Thatchers | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| La Benedicta | Heineken | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Ciber | Obolon | 🇺🇦 Ukraine |
| Bud Light Seltzer | AB InBev | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| Wild Wave | Adnams | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Somersby | Carlsberg | 🇩🇰 Denmark |
| Sidra Real | CCU | 🇨🇱 Chile |
About the owner: Boston Beer
Boston Beer is a publicly listed company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1984. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: SAM.
Boston Beer was founded in 1984 by Jim Koch, who brewed a recipe from his great-great-grandfather in his kitchen and sold it bar to bar. It became the largest American-owned brewer, and since 2016 the majority of its volume has come from hard seltzer and flavoured malt drinks rather than beer.
🇺🇸 Angry Orchard and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,550 brands that began in the United States. 479 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Angry Orchard is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Angry Orchard?
The parent company of Angry Orchard is Boston Beer, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Angry Orchard American?
Yes. Angry Orchard originated in the United States in 2011 and its owner, Boston Beer, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Angry Orchard still owned by Boston Beer?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Angry Orchard is still owned by Boston Beer. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] The Boston Beer Company, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-24 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 24 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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