Harpoon Brewery
Harpoon Brewery was founded in 1986 by Dan Kenary, Rich Doyle, and George Ligeti — three friends inspired by the rich brewing traditions they encountered while traveling through Europe. The company obtained Massachusetts Brewing Permit #001, the first permit to manufacture and sell alcohol in the Commonwealth in more than 15 years, and brewed its first Harpoon Ale in a converted Boston waterfront warehouse in June 1987. The brewery expanded in 2000 by purchasing the former Catamount Brewery in Windsor, Vermont, giving it a second production facility. In July 2014 Harpoon became an employee-owned company through the creation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, a structure it maintains today.
Beers by Harpoon Brewery
16 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Harpoon Brewery brew a broad range across 6 style families.
Across these 16 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Harpoon IPA
Their beers place in the Top 54% of the catalogue on average, across 4 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Harpoon Brewery
Harpoon Brewery was founded in 1986 by Dan Kenary, Rich Doyle, and George Ligeti — three friends inspired by the rich brewing traditions they encountered while traveling through Europe. The company obtained Massachusetts Brewing Permit #001, the first permit to manufacture and sell alcohol in the Commonwealth in more than 15 years, and brewed its first Harpoon Ale in a converted Boston waterfront warehouse in June 1987. The brewery expanded in 2000 by purchasing the former Catamount Brewery in Windsor, Vermont, giving it a second production facility. In July 2014 Harpoon became an employee-owned company through the creation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, a structure it maintains today.
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