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Today is Twelfth Night, the final day of the Twelve Days of Christmas, so I thought it would be fitting to post my review of From Nova Scotia With Love, the Christmas tree collaboration beer from Boston’s Harpoon Brewery and Cape Breton Island’s Big Spruce Brewing. It’s a smoked abbey-style … Continue reading
Arrived yesterday: two cans of Harpoon Brewery‘s From Nova Scotia with Love, its collaboration brew with Canada’s Big Spruce Brewing, which celebrates a longstanding tradition between Boston and Halifax. It’s a big beer (9% ABV) and it arrived just in time for Christmas! Here are details from the press contact: … Continue reading
Since today’s Beer Advent Calendar post highlighted Winter Warmer from Harpoon Brewery, I decided to post the reviews of Harpoon’s fall beers the brewery recently sent me. Harpoon leaned heavily into the autumn theme with these offerings (three beers and a cider), three of which are brewed with pumpkin. (By … Continue reading
For this third day of December, the Advent beer selection is a New England classic and another long-running craft tradition: Winter Warmer from Boston, Massachusetts’ Harpoon Brewery. For over three decades this ale has heralded the holiday season with its signature spice profile—cinnamon and nutmeg. Harpoon was founded in 1986, … Continue reading
Yesterday I received fall themed beers (and a cider) from Harpoon Brewery / Mass. Bay Brewing—three of which are pumpkin, which I can’t help but admire. Here’s the PR email I got for the beers: Mass. Bay Brewing Company, the brewers of Harpoon, UFO Beer, and City Roots Cider, have released all your … Continue reading
Yes, summer is over and we’re into fall and Oktoberfest and pumpkin season, but did you get a chance to check out Harpoon Brewery‘s Fantasy League mix pack of low alcohol lifestyle beers? The brewery had sent them to me to sample and I found them to be suitably easy-drinking … Continue reading
Massachusetts-based Harpoon Brewery released a new seasonal mix pack into the “lifestyle/better for you” category containing four variants of its Rec. League low-cal beer. When I knew I was received samples, I expected a single can each of the four beers, though in fact an entire half-rack (12 pack) of … Continue reading
Harpoon Brewery in Massachusetts is releasing a special “community ale” for COVID-19 pandemic relief this month, a revisiting of the brewery’s first beer from 1986 with proceeds from the sales benefiting several local organizations. Good stuff happening, on top of Harpoon also producing hand sanitizer since last month. Here is … Continue reading
Nordic farmhouse yeast: not just kveik for IPAs anymore! That’s because it was used to ferment Evergreen Farmhouse Cider, the first winter seasonal offering from Massachusetts’ City Roots Cider (the cider making side of Harpoon Brewery). This cider gets the full sahti-like treatment, not only fermented with Nordic yeast but … Continue reading
I’m not quite sure how this all converged, but three different packages of beers arrived yesterday (Black Friday) from various sources. The first were three barrel-aged and cellar reserved beers from North Coast Brewing: Old Stock Ale Cellar Reserve 2018, and two bottles of Barrel-Aged Old Rasputin XXII, one aged … Continue reading