In 2022, Harpoon acquired the Long Trail Brewery of Vermont. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the Brewery ran a campaign to fight food insecurity, donating money from beer purchases to the Vermont Foodbank and Greater Boston Food Bank. In 2015, for the first time since its founding, Harpoon Brewery suspended production of its beer citing an imminent blizzard. Harpoon's cofounder, Rich Doyle, along with other key investors, sold most of their shares in Harpoon and transferred them into an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. On August 1, 2014, while then the twelfth-largest craft brewery in the United States, the company became employee-owned. Harpoon purchased the former Catamount Brewery plant in Windsor, Vermont, in 2002, expanding its operations beyond Massachusetts. In 2002, Harpoon launched the Harpoon Point-to-Point, a cycling race that raises money for the Vermont Foodbank. The race has reportedly raised more than $2.2 million for ALS research. In 2001, Harpoon started a five-mile road race known as the Harpoon 5-Miler. Harpoon also holds an annual, weekend-long St. Recent iterations of "Harpoonfest" have drawn more than 10,000 attendees. In 1990, Harpoon threw the first Harpoon Octoberfest, which drew 2,000 people. Locally, Harpoon is known for annual festivals that they hold at the brewery.
Twenty-five years after the company's founding, Harpoon IPA had become a baseline of the American India pale ale style and was found on tap at bars and restaurants in Greater Boston, accounting for 60 percent of Harpoon’s sales. The beer was originally designed by Tod Mott, in 1992. Harpoon was the first brewery in New England to brew an India Pale Ale. Harpoon originally struggled to break even the company reportedly first made a profit in 1992. The brewery was the first company to obtain a permit to manufacture and sell alcohol in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in more than 25 years, and as a result laid claim to Massachusetts Brewing permit #001. Harpoon Brewery, also known as the Massachusetts Bay Brewing Company, was originally founded in 1986. It's refreshing enough, and it does have an authentic peach flavor, but overall it's kind of lacking.Harpoon Brewery is an employee owned American brewery, with locations in Boston, Massachusetts, and Windsor, Vermont. It's a little weird, but there is some charm to it, but then in the end, nah, not really. What? I'm sure that Puerto Rico is on the label for some kind of distribution reason, so who came up with the idea to lay these words out in this order? There's plenty of space so they could have easily separated Puerto Rico entirely. Ahh, here's another interesting thing about the label, it reads "PLEASE RECYCLE PUERTO RICO DO NOT LITTER". It's not that sweet, and it finishes mostly dry with a short lingering finish. There's also a kind of, for lack of a better word, raspiness to it. It's hard to find a really nice, ripe peach these days and this tastes like what you usually get. It's got some wheat to the malt, and a fair bit of acidity, and that coupled with the flavoring comes off as real. We'll see how it tastes but given that I knew it was made with natural flavorings I assumed that it would be that artificial 'candy' peach that's so weird. Let me guess that it smells like peach - yes, but here's the surprise, it actually smells like a real peach. It fizzed up with both the appearance and sound of a can of soda pop being poured and now there's nothing left at all. It's poured a lightly hazy yellow gold body beneath a short head of white foam that's already dissipated. Notes via stream of consciousness: "BEER WITH NATURAL FLAVOR".
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