our cofounders traveled in and around Europe and saw how those breweries were ingrained in those communities with delicious beer. Photo courtesy of Bruce Bickfordīickford: Yeah, we started brewing in 1986, and the realm of craft beer has really shifted in that time. “I thought I wanted to be a lacrosse coach.”Īfter forming a connection to former Harpoon CEO Rich Doyle, who just happened to have played lacrosse at Harvard (before Bickford’s coaching tenure), and meeting some of the Harpoon people, he decided to sell beer.īruce Bickford holds a 20-pound lobster at Yankee Lobster Co., a seafood market located next door to Harpoon’s Boston brewery.
“I didn’t come in with beverage background,” says Bickford, now 33.
But the festivals, and the people at Harpoon, changed his career trajectory. At the time-2011-Bickford was the lacrosse coach at Harvard-a prestigious job, especially for someone in his mid-20s. The brand quickly attracted a following, including Bruce Bickford, who attended several Harpoon beer festivals at the Boston brewery. Geary, which today is New England’s oldest craft brewery. Harpoon Brewery is one that can.īorn in Boston in 1986, Harpoon arrived on the scene just two years after Jim Koch started brewing Sam Adams and three years after Portland’s D.L. Not many American craft breweries can say they’ve been around for more than three decades. The regional manager for the Boston brewery discusses its culture, its recent collaboration with Dunkin’ Donuts, and how a Harvard lacrosse coach ended up selling one of the East Coast’s longest-running IPAs
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