![]() Additionally, we were introduced to “City Roots,” a cider offering, as well as hard seltzers. White UFOĪlso, there is the White UFO (UFO standing for “unfiltered offering”), which is a pleasant, wheat beer, which I highly recommend if you are a fan of Blue Moon. Other beers that were briefly presented included the DragonWeisse, a grapefruity, rosé-like beer, which is pink, tastes neither like rosé nor like beer, and is… just watery (would not recommend). DragonWeisseĪfter the IPA, the room relaxed, and fewer people paid attention to the presentation of the beers and more were concerned with just sampling everything that was on tap. With such backlash, Harpoon made the IPA a perennial offering and to this day the IPA accounts for around half of all of the company’s beer sales. ![]() When the company started to pull the IPA from production in favor of other seasonal beers, Harpoon received thousands of hand-mailed letters in protest. Debuting in March 1993, Harpoon’s IPA became an instant hit and was number one for that summer. The first beer that we tried was the classic Harpoon IPA. After we received tasting glasses, one had the pleasure of yelling out the beers on tap along with a few facts about each and the other filled and re-filled glasses as we were allowed to request any one of the available beers. In the tasting room, the tour guides divided and conquered. One of our two tour guides gave a quick intro and then led us straight to the tasting room without explaining anything about the factory (except to crack a few jokes about how the employees drive forklifts and rarely see the light of day). Our tour group was quite large and overwhelmingly populated by young people (like my friend and I). Even though it was only around 1:30pm on a Saturday, the front room was filled with people (mostly young adults) with pints in hand and flights on the table. Harpoon Brewery tour and tasting tickets (at the time of this writing) are only sold on the day of for 30-minute timeslots at $5 each. While I enjoyed my experience at the Harpoon Brewery, I would say that the tour and tasting experience leans heavily toward the tasting side of things. However, in my recent wine tasting experience in Dorchester, the host rushed through the offerings and there was not much learning to be had (more here). When I went on whiskey distillery tours down south and in Scotland, I found myself learning about the product from start to finish on tours that lasted 45 minutes at minimum (more here). In my alcohol-production-facility tour and tasting experiences, I have come to find that these attractions come in all shapes and sizes. In fact in these days of uncertainty and social isolation I oftentimes think about the sun kissed afternoon I effortlessly drifted through this brewery buzzed on tantalizing bitter IPA's and my best friend and also my wife.How much beer can you drink in ten minutes? That question right there was pretty much the theme of the Harpoon Brewery tour and tasting. Bobby and I aren't going to waste what precious little time we have left on this planet going to a place that sucked. If you're thinking about checking this place out I'd highly recommend it, I mean if you knew Bobby it's where he'd take you and TRUST me Bobby only takes you to the BEST places I know first hand! You think you wouldn't like going here YEAH right! Trust me you'll love it. I really thought the service was among the best breweries I've ever been to. Beer was pretty dang good and they had some cool shirts. And the space is big enough for that kind of carefree tom-foolery. Bobby and me are older now but we love playing Manhunt in bars (Nightcrawlers just isn't practical or safe regardless of whether or not the bar will provide you blankets. Also when I say hipster here I don't mean it in the bad Mumford and Sons overtime has a tattoo of a fork or Blanket from The Brave Little Toaster, I mean just like hip. Plenty of room and comfortable but still has that artisanal hipster feel. The people there were all pleasant and nice and the brewery is actually really well setup, as in the functional design of everything is pleasant. ![]() So he suggested Harpoon Brewery.can I just say our time there was sublime. Im dead serious - he makes the candle from Beauty and the Beast look like HG Wells. If there's one thing Bobby know how to do is serve up fun on a silver platter. My wife and I were looking for something to do that we could see somewhat of a touristy thing but also just chill and relax. We met in Florida and he's a total Florida kid: good looking, great tan, relishes in a deep piquant nihilism, you know the type. But seriously, all jokes aside I came up to Boston last year for a wedding on Block Island and stayed with my friend Bobby. My best friend Bobby and I came to this brewery WITH OUR WIVES *Borat Voice*.
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