After Ted Williams blasted a deep, 502-foot home run into Fenway Park’s bleachers on June 9, 1946, the magnitude of the accomplishment was marked with a single red seat where the ball landed and struck a Red Sox fan in the head.
Now, the seat will have an India Pale Ale named in its honor.
Samuel Adams is releasing a very limited batch — or 502 numbered bottles — of “Red Seat IPA.”
The special brew will be released starting at 5:02 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 27 (which happens to be the 296th birthday of the patriot Samuel Adams) on a first-come-first-served basis at a release party inside the company’s 30 Germania St.