When Harpoon Brewery opened in 1987 on the South Boston Waterfront, aesthetics were an afterthought. The loading docks of a working brewery matched those of neighboring businesses. Getting folks to come to the neighborhood at all — to a beer factory in particular — was not a goal.
Now, the country’s eighth-largest craft brewer wants you to pull up a stool and stay awhile. Harpoon recently underwent a $3.5 million renovation to better accommodate visitors who have flocked to the brewery.
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If you wanted to walk from the Harpoon Brewery to the Sam Adams brewery in JP it would probalby take you about two hours. Not exactly most people's definition of "blocks away".
Boston Beer's headquarters are near Harpoon.
Gone the Tasting Room, (the best part of the tour), now it's $5.75 for a draft. Again, the working class is priced out of the best Boston has to offer. Just sayin'..
The tasting room is gone? Boo. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have learned that I don't particularly care for most of their beers (didn't find them bad, they just didn't interest me too much). Or maybe that's the plan... Try one for "just" $5.75--oh, didn't like it? Try another for $5.75.