12/5/2018 -- Huzzah! Tavern Night

Harpoon is transformed into a colonial tavern to celebrate The Boston Tea Party's 245th Anniversary!

DID YOU KNOW?: December 16, 2018 marks the 245th Anniversary of The Boston Tea Party, the single most important event leading to the American Revolution. There is nothing more Boston than The Boston Tea Party!

To honor this year's 245th Boston Tea Party Anniversary, Harpoon Brewery and the neighboring Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum team up to create a seasonal Harpoon Boston Tea Party Ale made with Souchong tea, a classic black tea from the Wuyi Mountains in the Fujian province of China (this tea is famous for its very distinctive smoky aroma and is one of the five teas thrown into Boston’s historic waters in 1773 during The Boston Tea Party) which will be launched on December 5, 2018 during a special Huzzah! Tavern Night at Harpoon's Beer Hall.

On December 5, 2018, from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m., the cast of the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum will transform the Harpoon Beer Hall into a colonial tavern to celebrate the 245th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and the launch Harpoon's special Boston Tea Party Ale, to be available ONLY at Harpoon Brewery and at the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum until supplies last. The Huzzah! Tavern Night at Harpoon Beer Hall will be spirited 18th-century tavern complete with live period music, beer & pretzels and historically-inspired cocktails amidst a host of famous Bostonians including Paul & Rachel Revere, John & Lydia Hancock, Dorothy Quincy and Samuel Adams along with other colonial characters.

Eighteenth century colonial taverns were social centers that attracted a wide variety of people. Harpoon's Huzzah! Tavern Night offer patrons a taste of history though Harpoon's Boston Tea Party Ale (the Souchong tea used to make the beer was provided by the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum) and rub elbows with some of Boston’s famous colonial residents, many of whom played an important part in The Boston Tea Party which took place on December 16, 1773.

The 245th Anniversary of The Boston Tea Party will also be commemorated with a major reenactment on Sun., December 16, 2018 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the famed Old South Meeting House and The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. It is one of the largest historical theatrical moving performances in the United States and is FREE and open to the public - #tossthattea. This immersive and interactive reenactment is an opportunity for the public to experience one of America's most iconic public protests live where more than 100 reenactors from across New England bring to life the story of The Boston Tea Party and theatrically recreate the infamous evening of Dec., 16, 1773. It begins with a fiery tea tax debate at Old South Meeting House, the actual historic hall where the colonists gathered to protest taxation without representation. Then, the public joins a lively procession, led by multiple fife and drum corps, to the waterfront, and witnesses as the Sons of Liberty destroy actual tea into Boston’s historic waters at the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum located over the same body of water where The Boston Tea Party took place 245 years ago! For more information visit https://www.december16.org/. Invitation for general public to participate: Bostonians and Americans are invited to send loose tea to participate to be thrown into Boston Harbor as part of the 245th Boston Tea Party Anniversary & Annual Reenactment. Send dried loose leaf tea (NO used tea bags) to: Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, 306 Congress St, Boston, MA 02210. Include name, address, e-mail & phone number. An official certificate of participation will be sent to each partaker sending tea. Deadline to send tea: December 10, 2018.