The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (SAM)

Brewer, one pattern. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 27, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 65 of the 90 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 2,736 coworkers at December 27, 2025, 168 of them unionized, and describes one brewing business, so the whole workforce is read at beverage manufacturing by description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 21% now, 24% at the end of 2027, 24% at the end of 2028, 24% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 24% desk work, 19% people work and 56% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 76% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 17% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

2,736 employees as of December 27, 2025 (stated). Not stated; the excerpt gives no count by country.

The filing: “As of December 27, 2025, the Company had 2,736 coworkers of which 168 were represented by unions or similar organizations.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 2,736 coworkers at December 27, 2025, of whom 168 were represented by unions or similar organizations; an Executive Leadership Team of the CEO and eight leaders over brewing, supply chain, sales, marketing, finance, legal and people and culture.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Beverage Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• The Coca-Cola Company (KO, 65,900 employees)21% now, 24% by 2028
• Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (KDP, 30,600 employees)21% now, 24% by 2028
• Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. (COKE, 17,000 employees)21% now, 24% by 2028
• Molson Coors Beverage Company (TAP, 16,200 employees)22% now, 26% by 2028
• Primo Brands Corporation (PRMB, 12,600 employees)21% now, 24% by 2028
• Constellation Brands, Inc. (STZ, 9,400 employees)21% now, 24% by 2028
• Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST, 6,891 employees)21% now, 24% by 2028
• Brown-Forman Corporation (BF-B, 4,900 employees)21% now, 24% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

10 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it has started to implement AI solutions, including machine learning and generative AI tools that analyze data to assist in product development and in internal tools, and names the risks of improperly managed AI to its brands and customers.

• “We use AI in our business, and challenges with properly managing its use could result in harm to our brands, reputation, business or customers.”
• “The Company has started to implement the use of AI solutions, including machine learning and generative AI tools that collect, aggregate, and analyze data to assist in the development of the Company's products and in the use of internal tools that support the Company's business.”
• “AI algorithms trained with noisy data may create accuracy issues, unintended biases, and discriminatory outcomes that could harm the Company's brands, reputation, business, or customers.”
• “Additionally, no assurance can be made that the usage of AI will assist the Company in being more efficient.”
• “Further, dependence on AI without adequate safeguards to make certain business decisions may introduce additional operational vulnerabilities by producing inaccurate outcomes, recommendations, or other suggestions based on flaws in the underlying data or other unintended results.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20249median 4
• Fiscal 202510median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The collector's pick, 131,432, is a count of stock options granted; the filing states 2,736 coworkers (rule 2).
• The U.S. share is not stated.
• No count by function; one pattern by description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-067467, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.