More Beer Tanks? Yes, Please!

Best Thursday Ever!

As you might remember from previous posts, we have been adding new tanks over the last few years in order to make more Harpoon beer for you guys to enjoy!

Today, we are keeping our promise of making more beer by welcoming a couple new MASSIVE tanks – two 1200 barrel bright beer tanks are going in at our Boston brewery. They are now the biggest tanks at the brewery, with each tank capable of holding enough beer to fill 2400 kegs.  Now that’s a lot of beer.

What does a bright beer tank do? I thought you’d never ask!

Bright beer tanks are the last step for beer before it gets packaged in a bottle or in a keg. The bright tanks will be filled with beer after the yeast has been filtered out of the beer. At this point, we are going to add in the other 2/3rd of carbonation, through a process known as “forced carbonation”, to our beer.  Basically, we pump in CO2 through something that looks like a pummice stone, and it infuses the beer with CO2.

It kinda works how an oxygen stone works in a fish tank.

The reason why this is so important is because our house ale yeast usually produces about 1/3rd of the total carbonation during fermentation. So, in order to bring our beer to the desired carbonation level, we use the bright beer tanks.

These brand new tanks will be joining the other new tanks outside our brewery… we’ve got a pretty awesome collection going on now! We’re very excited to get these up and running  because we know you’re thirsty.

Cheers!

Brewer Matt DeLuca Talks about 100 Barrel Series #40 Black IPA

Hard work pays off, and that is very obvious in our latest 100 Barrel Series beer – #40 Black IPA.

Brewer Matt DeLuca worked for two years to perfect his recipe after becoming interested in the Black IPA style. However, he didn’t want to just make any ordinary one. His love of hops really comes out in this beer, as he strove to create a Black IPA that was “more hop-forward instead of roasty”.

I think he did a darn fine job at creating this unique and delicious beer… so grab a pint of Black IPA and listen to Matt talk about how he crafted his contribution to the 100 Barrel Series!

Congrats Lindsey on New K2 Skis!

Lindsey with her new K2 Skis!

For me, nothing beats heading out on the slopes and getting a couple runs in before heading over to the ski lodge for a delicious Harpoon beer on a weekend. Judging from the large number of people who entered our K2 Ski Sweepstakes… you guys like to spend your weekends that way too!

I had the pleasure to hand off these awesome pair of K2 skis to our winner – Lindsey from Somerville, MA – this past weekend, and since snow is in the forecast in certain parts of New England, it looks like she’ll have the opportunity to really break those skis in (I’m not going to lie… I’m a little jealous).

Lindsey’s been a Friend of Harpoon since May 2011, but “Harpoon was a friend of [hers] long before then!”

She mentioned that she was just looking around on the Harpoon website, in search of an upcoming brewery event, and she discovered the contest section, took her chances and never looked back.

“[I’m] So pumped to get out on the slopes and use them for the first time,” said Lindsey.

Our winner has just one request though –

“How about some fresh powder, New England?”

Cheers to that!

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Just Bottled: 100 Barrel Series #40 Black IPA!

Cheers!

We wanted to let you know that today we are bottling our latest 100 Barrel Series beer – #40 Black IPA - in Boston today. Brewer Matt DeLuca crafted this delicious beer, and we really hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

 

Boston Brewery Gets A Makeover

The Friesen grain silo at the Harpoon Brewery in Boston, MA was painted IPA orange with a cut vinyl decal.

If you have happened to stop by the brewery in the past week for a tour or tasting, or to pick up some beer, you have seen in person the makeover we just gave to some of our outdoor tanks. If not, you should come on down to see it in person!

What you will see first when you get here is on the Northern Avenue our Friesen grain silo painted in Harpoon IPA orange with a cut vinyl decal. Then as you walk around to our Visitor Center entrance, you will see our 53 foot tall waste water tank covered in orange vinyl and a whole bunch of Harpoon bottle caps.

We think it really brightens the place up, in a Love Beer, Love Life sort of way.

We’d like to invite you all to take part in a friendly contest:

53 foot waste water tank at the Harpoon Brewery in Boston

How many bottle caps are on the waste water tank (at right)? 

Simply post a comment with your guess of how many bottle caps are on the waste water tank  and your email address (so we can contact you if you win). The winner guessing closest to, without going over, will be selected from all entries made by the end of December!

The prize to the winner will be 2 admission passes to Harpoon St. Patrick’s Festival on March 2 & 3 at our Boston brewery.

We hope that you make it to the brewery soon to see us! Cheers and Happy Holidays!

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