Boston Beer asks fans to vote on bringing back two dormant brews

Boston Beer Co. figures that it has released hundreds of Samuel Adams styles over the years -- more than 60 in the last year alone.

With so many brews coming and going, the Boston-based brewery hears daily from fans about bringing back a favorite style that has disappeared. Now it's giving beer drinkers a chance to do just that.

Boston Beer is holding an online vote featuring 16 different beers that are no longer in circulation. People can vote for four of them. Voting began May 11 and ends May 25.

The four beers that get the most votes will be brewed and available in Boston and at select beer festivals nationwide this summer. The brewery also will hold a final round of online voting to select two of the finalists. The two winners will be made again and re-released in a Samuel Adams Variety Pack in early 2016.

“We’ve been brewing boundary-pushing beers for over 30 years, but with innovation comes the inevitability of having to tuck away the recipes for some of our favorite brews to save for another day,” Samuel Adams founder and brewer Jim Koch said in a prepared statement. “We hear from our drinkers nearly every day asking us to re-release their favorites, so we’re excited to make these brews available once again on a national level.”

The 16 brews and the first year they were made are:

-- Black & Brew Coffee Stout (2011*)

-- Black Lager (2004)

-- Blackberry Witbier (2008)

-- Honey Porter (2002)

-- Mighty Oak Ale (2011)

-- Pale Ale (1999)

-- Brown Ale (2005)

-- Cranberry Lambic (1990)

-- East West Kolsch (2011)

-- Revolutionary Rye Ale (2010)

-- Rustic Saison (2011)

-- Scotch Ale (1995)

-- Vienna Lager (2002)

-- Weiss Bier (2001)

-- Golden Pilsner (1996)

-- Hefeweizen (2003)

To vote, click here.