![]() ![]() “It was very well received and created a real buzz,” he said. The IPA was popular almost instantaneously, Kenary said. While the IBUs (international bitterness units) are high, it’s balanced, so you get the malt side to balance it out.” “We were the leaders of that,” Doyle said. He said Harpoon wanted to make an IPA with American hops and Harpoon’s house yeast to give it a more fruity flavor and aroma. “We conceptualized it, but Tod really deserves all the credit for creating the beer,” Doyle said.ĭoyle said the only IPAs around at the time were more English-style IPAs, of which he wasn’t a big fan. Kenary said the brewery wanted a summer seasonal, and that’s when Doyle and then-Head Brewer Tod Mott (also formerly of the Portsmouth Brewery) settled on an IPA. The company also had two seasonals: Winter Warmer and Octoberfest. Harpoon began brewing beer in 1986, and it was brewing two year-round beers by 1993: the Harpoon Ale and Golden Lager, which it no longer makes. “We’re very happy to be celebrating 20 years with this great beer.” “It’s a great beer,” fellow Co-founder Rich Doyle added. “I drink lots of beer, but I always go back to the Harpoon IPA.” “Harpoon IPA defines beer for me,” Harpoon Co-founder Dan Kenary said. When Harpoon introduced the IPA (short for “India pale ale”) in 1993, it was a revolutionary beer, the first IPA on the East Coast and one of the earliest IPAs brewed during the early days of the craft-beer movement. Harpoon Brewery is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its most popular beer, the Harpoon IPA.īoston-based Harpoon’s New England classic is an easy-drinking, not-too-bitter IPA that still represents more than 50 percent of all the beer sold by the brewery. ![]()
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