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Founded
1986
BREWERY TYPE
Production - Regional
Address
306 Northern Ave
Boston, MA 02210 United States
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Overview
Harpoon was started in 1986 by Dan Kenary, Rich Doyle, and George Ligeti. They were three friends who loved beer and loved drinking beer together but found the beer choices at the time to be limited. Traveling through Europe and experiencing the rich traditions of European brewing and beer drinking enhanced their love of beer and opened their eyes to the rich beer culture they wanted back home. They decided to build a brewery so that they could brew the beers that they wanted to drink, and invite their friends to the brewery to drink it with them.
In June of 1987 a warehouse space on the Boston waterfront was transformed into a brewery and the first Harpoon Ale was brewed. Fresh, local craft beer began making its way out to Boston beer drinkers. It was hard to imagine that craft brewing would become what it has today.
Though many things have changed since the early days of Harpoon, much has stayed the same. We still love brewing beer and enjoying it with friends. One thing that has changed: in August 2014 Harpoon became an employee owned company!
We invite all of you to visit our Boston brewery, where it all began, and our beautiful brewery in Windsor, Vermont.
Harpoon Brewery and DraftKings Inc. (Nasdaq: DKNG) announced the release of a new, limited edition 12-pack in time for the Celtic’s on-going run in the NBA playoffs and the Red Sox resurgence in MLB: a Rec. League Get In The Game! 12-Pack.
Harpoon Brewery and Flour Bakery + Café have collaborated on a Sticky Bun Stout, a pastry stout brewed with natural flavors and real sticky buns from Flour Bakery + Café.
The three-way deal through which Harpoon’s parent company will acquire Long Trail Brewing in Vermont and WhistlePig Whiskey will acquire one of the latter’s production facilities, came about through long-standing personal relationships, Mass. Bay Brewing Company CEO and co-founder Dan Kenary explained to Brewbound.
Two pioneering New England craft breweries are joining forces: Harpoon parent company Mass. Bay Brewing in Boston has struck a deal to acquire Long Trail Brewing Company in Bridgewater Corners, Vermont.
Three is a magic number in hockey – three periods per game, three rounds of playoffs before the cup, three goals per hat trick, and now a third collaboration between Boston’s favorite black and gold hockey team and Harpoon Brewery.
Mass. Bay Brewing Co. will look to the Harpoon League brand family — including Rec. League hazy pale ale and Big League hazy double IPA — to drive growth in 2022.
Following the release of two successful barrel-aged collaborations across just as many years, Harpoon Brewery is announcing its third collaboration with WhistlePig Whiskey: HarpoonGreen Mountain Ryed— a hop-forward take on a barrel-aged beer.
Boston, MA. – Harpoon Brewery is thrilled to announce that its Big League New England IPA will now be widely available in Sweden. The Boston- and Vermont-based brewery won the coveted tender for system-wide availability with Systembolaget for the recently launched and highly anticipated IPA— the latest introduction to their League Family of beers that started… Read more »
After Mass. Bay Brewing Company’s Harpoon Brewery partnered with theMass Brewers Guild to host its first ever Hop Forward Equality Career Fair, the two organizations are once again teaming up to help other local breweries transform their diversity equity and inclusion efforts with the launch of HopForwardEquality.com.
Mass. Bay Brewing Company and the Massachusetts Brewers Guild (MBG) have launched Hop Forward Equality, a website with resources and a job board with the goal of creating a more diverse and equitable industry and consumer base for Bay State breweries. “We have to ask ourselves why, and we have to do a better job truly encompassing and embracing our communities,” MBG executive director Katie Stinchon said in a press release.