Harpoon Brewery

BOSTON, MA — Brewed, not baked. Poured, not sliced. Inspired by a classic tale and deliciously spiced. The Harpoon Brewery is pleased to introduce UFO Gingerland, a gingerbread-inspired beer brewed with cinnamon, clove, and ginger. This new seasonal offering from the brewer’s popular UFO series, a line of unfiltered beers, has arrived for the winter… Read more »

Harpoon Brewery today announced it will promote Charlie Story, the Boston-based company’s current vice president of marketing, to the position of president. Storey, who joined the company in 1996, will oversee marketing, retail and festival initiatives and also manage the brewery’s distribution arm.

BOSTON, MA—Harpoon Brewery & Ball and Buck are joining forces for Boston’s first Brewdown Pop-Up. The Brewdown Pop-Up is an event series created by leading marketing innovation company GYK Antler to celebrate the local craft beer community and the collaborative spirit that spawns great ideas and partnerships. Each Brewdown Pop-Up pairs a New England brand… Read more »

Effective Aug. 1, Boston’s Harpoon Brewery will be minority owned by its employees. The company today announced that it has transferred 48 percent of the company’s shares into an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) after purchasing those shares back from six of its eight existing shareholders.

Brewbound is pleased to announce that Harpoon Brewery will once again host the official Brewbound Session welcome reception on Wednesday May 28, the evening before Brewbound puts on its bi-annual business conference at the Revere Hotel in downtown Boston.

Boston, MA — It all started as a friendly brewing competition among Harpoon employees. About 5 years ago, brewery staffers from every department were invited to brew a beer of their choosing and present it to their colleagues for a blind sampling and voting at the company’s annual gathering in Vermont. Each year the competition… Read more »

BOSTON, MA — The Harpoon Brewery is pleased to introduce UFO Big Squeeze shandy, an unfiltered wheat beer blended with all natural grapefruit juice.

For 20 years, Harpoon’s flagship IPA didn’t needed another moniker. Throughout New England, the beer is known by most beer drinkers simply as IPA. But the IPA, having emerged as the most popular style in craft beer, according to IRI, has also become somewhat synonymous with extreme, hoppy, and bitter taste — what’s often called… Read more »

At this point, Rich Doyle — the co-founder of Boston’s Harpoon Brewery — could probably spend an entire day sharing business lessons from the past 27 years in the beer industry. But at yesterday’s Beer Marketer’s INSIGHTS conference in New York City, Doyle needed less than 30-minutes to provide the 200 or so beer executives… Read more »

BOSTON, MA — As the days grow colder and the nights longer, winter is just around the corner. At this time of year, occasions are marked with traditional seasonal food and beverage. In keeping with one such tradition, many beer lovers enjoy seasonal spiced ale to warm up the chilly nights. One of the first… Read more »

Boston, MA (October 23, 2013) — The World Series starts at Fenway Park in Boston tonight and many questions abound. Will the Sox bullpen continue their hot streak? Will the Cards come back thirsty for revenge after the 2004 Sox Series sweep? Will Harpoon Brewery’s tasting room have a keg of Schlafly Beer on tap,… Read more »

Boston, MA — The Harpoon Brewery is proud to bring back Grateful Harvest Ale, a New England cranberry ale brewed in the Thanksgiving spirit of giving back to the community. For every 6-pack of Grateful Ale sold, the Harpoon Brewery will make a $1 donation to the local food bank in the area in which… Read more »

Various identities were showcased at the Brewbound Session in Boston at the Revere Hotel on Thursday, providing about 150 attendees — brewers, distributors and investors — with an up-close look into the inherent differences of brands within the same industry.

The Harpoon Brewery will host its first of three “Brewed For Boston” fundraiser events for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings tonight, beginning at 6 P.M. The special events, happening at the Harpoon Brewery Beer Hall (located at 306 Northern Ave., Boston, Mass.) are scheduled to place between 6 P.M. — 9 P.M. on each… Read more »