![]() ![]() Harpoon has an interesting reputation right now. When I visited, I started by chatting with Dan Kenary (who's also CEO)-look for the audio to appear on a future podcast-and then joined Jaime Schier, a brewer whose current title is Director of Quality, for a tour. ![]() The city owns the land, but they are happy to have a working plant like Harpoon there in 2008 they signed a lease with the brewery to keep Harpoon there through 2058. There are still a couple heavy beams running parallel to the canning and kegging lines that have rails on top of them that were used by the shipbuilders. The warehouse Harpoon found back in 1986 was originally used in the 1930s to build destroyers for the British navy-until December 1941, after which the ships went to the United States. And by city brewery I mean, of course, Harpoon-not that other one that has "Boston" in the title but which has never been brewed in Red Sox nation.Īlthough a lot has changed since the body-dumping days, the location is still by no means a glamorous one: it's the working harbor. Last week, while in Boston to give a speech, I carved out time to visit the old city brewery down on the harborside where, as founder Dan Kenary joked, "Whitey Bulger used to dump bodies." Now the 27th largest brewery in the country, it has been at that location for thirty-one years. Little breweries have their own delights, but there's something about the scale, the thump and clang of large breweries, that I can't resist. Big tanks, big pipes, big packaging floors. ![]()
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