Matt Stinchfield, founder of Lincoln's Ploughshare Brewing Company, has been named the Wild Card winner for the 2016 Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream Pitch Room Competition.
Stinchfield receives an all-expenses-paid trip to Boston on Dec. 1 for the National Pitch Room Competition Finals, where he will compete with four regional winners for a shot at the grand prize -- a $10,000 grant and a year’s worth of mentoring from Samuel Adams experts, including founder Jim Koch.
The competition, in its fourth year, is designed to help food and beverage entrepreneurs around the country perfect the art of the sales pitch. Each contestant is invited to give a two-minute pitch on their company and why they deserve to win the national award.