Harpoon Beer Factory

This weekend I took a drive up to Boston to tour the Harpoon Beer Factory.  It was pretty damn sweet.  You walk upstairs and pay $5 for a tour.  They start you off with a 5 ounce tasting glass (that you get to keep).  The tour starts by filling up your tasting glass with one of their beers.  The tour guide talks about the three big tanks on the top floor for a bit.  You then walk down a level to the fermentation tanks and get another sample of the beer directly from the tank.  It is not carbonated but nice and cold and very good.  The guide talks about the tanks and then you walk past the tanks to where they put the beer in barrels.  The guide talks for a while, then invites everyone to go back upstairs where there is a small bar with about ten beers on tap and you can taste as many as you want for about a half hour.  It was well worth the $5 and, if you were determined, you could get good and drunk.  They also sell "Growlers" which are 64 ounce jugs that you can fill with any beer you want and carry it out with you. Those are only $7 and well worth it.  My friends an I walked out with a growler each, hit up a few bars, and ended the night drinking the Growlers.  If you ever take a trip up to Boston I would suggest taking this tour.  The whole thing takes about an hour.