The first of three ships laden with tea for the Boston Tea Party arrived in the city 250 years ago this week.

And on Tuesday, the exact date that the ship had made its stop in 1773, organizers commemorating the semiquincentennial marked the milestone with their first sampling of a new brew at Samuel Adams.

A limited edition Green Tea Pale Ale honoring the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party is now available at Samuel Adams Brewery in Jamaica Plain and at the brewer’s downtown taproom.

“It’s a very impactful environment being in Boston,” said Megan Parisi, head brewer at the downtown taproom. “History is everywhere you’re going to look and walk. You walk on the Freedom Trail to come to our front door here at this tavern. … There’s going to be a good draw to celebrate the Tea Party as well as the beer that is brewed to commemorate it.”

Organizers behind a full-scale, live reenactment of the Tea Party scheduled for Dec. 16 stopped by the taproom following a grave marker ceremony at Granary Burying Ground where they recognized Samuel Adams and John Hancock as architects of the Tea Party.

Though they did not throw British tea overboard into Boston Harbor, Adams and Hancock were lead organizers for the Sons of Liberty which perpetuated the protest against taxation without representation, said Evan O’Brien, creative manager of the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum.

The brief ceremonies, which drew a healthy crowd despite Tuesday’s blustery conditions, marked the final two in a five-year long effort in honoring 140 revolutionary figures connected to the Tea Party, O’Brien said. He attended every single one of them, some of which entailed him going abroad for remembrances in Ireland and Paris.

“As we rapidly approach the 250th anniversary of the Tea Party, we are reminded that this story is not a dead story,” O’Brien said. “Sure, these folks are long since gone … but what they believed in, what they fought for are things we are still living and breathing now.”

Some of those ideas include being represented and treated fairly in government as well as being civically active, he said.

“Samuel Adams persisted even when things got really tough and other people were quitting,” said Ira Stroll, a historian who wrote Samuel Adams: A Life. “That’s an important reminder of the value of not giving up in your cause when you believe your cause is just as he did.”

Officials are anticipating at least 10,000 people from all over the country and abroad to flock to the city for the reenactment of the Tea Party, a pivotal event leading to the American Revolution.

Members of the Henry Knox Color Guard take part in a grave marker ceremony for Samuel Adams and John Hancock at the Granary Burial Ground. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)
Colonial interpreter, Jeffrey Bird and Cathryn Philippe get ready to install a grave marker at John Hancock’s gravestone during a grave marker ceremony at the Granary Burial Ground. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)
Colonial interpreter, Jeffrey Bird, playing Archibald McNeil installs a grave marker at Samuel Adams gravestone during a ceremony at the Granary Burial Ground. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)
Boston, MA – November 28: Scott Tourtellot a member of the Henry Knox Color Guard takes part in a grave marker ceremony for Samuel Adams and John Hancock at the Granary Burial Ground. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)