The growler is raised by the contraption it sits on, with a long tube extending into the growler to fill it. We had fun watching the guy fill the growler up (photo below).
We opted for the UFO glass, which has a funky shape and my son had adopted it as his glass in our kitchen. We hit the gift shop at the end – a selection of clothing, beer and accessories. You can hang out in there while you wait for your tour.
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That plus the really large bar means a loud room. It’s a decently large size room, with probably 3-4 rows of these tables – you can see how far down it goes. The tables are communal – you can see the random people we sat with. You have a choice of eight different dips (you choose two), including a red pepper aioli, spicy ale mustard, olive oil and parmesan, and some others I can’t remember. Harpoon makes its own pretzels – you can see making and baking them close to the bar, in what looked like pizza ovens. I gained a new respect for the wait staff in carrying this flight back to the table – it was hard! Since our waitress was so slow I ordered from the bar (that took awhile as well – it was very busy and I guess my shirt wasn’t low cut enough). There’s are pumpkin and raspberry beers in there.
In the background below you can see the canning part of the factory behind the glass.īelow is the UFO flight. The four glasses are on a board (see the second picture below), and he lined them up under the tap, tilting the board and clicking each of the four taps on – 1, 2, 3, 4 and then off in the same order. The taps for each flight were adjacent to each other, and it was great fun watching the bartender pour a flight. They offered four different flights, including IPAs, the UFO flight (unfiltered light beers, some with fruit), saisons (French style beers that were creamy and fruity), and I can’t recall what the other flights were. Here’s what they had on tap (picture below). We saw the cans winnowed down from the mass you see above, to single rows, where they made their way through turning contraptions into the machine that poured the beer, and then put a lid on it. I did see one employee drinking on the job – though I believe it was coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts. Of course thoughts of Lucy and Ethyl crossed our minds, especially seeing empty cans on the floor.
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While Harpoon sells kegs and bottles ( read about bottling here), we saw their canning area from the bar/entrance, where large windows let you peer in. You can read all about the brewing process here. This would have been a good primer to read before going on the Sam Adams tour.
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