Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Boston Beer Company
Massachusetts
68 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 15, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.4M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
65 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
41 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Postal
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 1175 116th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
- H.R. 2903 114th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Michael Nardelli The Nardelli GroupCovered position: Special Assistant to Congressman John Tierney Special Assistant to Congressman Ron Klink42 filingsthrough 2026
- Mick Nardelli Nelson Mullins Riley & ScarboroughCovered position: Leg./Exec. Assistant, Cong. Tierney, 2001-200225 filingsthrough 2016
- Ron Klink Nelson Mullins Riley & ScarboroughCovered position: Member of Congress (1992 - 2000)22 filingsthrough 2016
- Christopher Greeley Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Political Director, Sen. Kerry, 1990-1995
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: the-boston-beer-company.