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Acitelli on History

  • Remembering the First Great American Beer Festival
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    Remembering the First Great American Beer Festival

    June 4, 2014 - Tom Acitelli

    There is a story, at least partly apocryphal, of Charlie Papazian, co-founder of the American Homebrewers Association, telling the great English beer critic Michael Jackson that he and some other Yanks were thinking of launching something called the Great American Beer Festival. “That’s a great idea, Charlie,” Jackson said. “Only what will you serve for... View Article

  • Throwing That First Harpoon: The First Kegs of Harpoon Ale
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    Throwing That First Harpoon: The First Kegs of Harpoon Ale

    June 2, 2014 - Tom Acitelli

    On Tuesday, June 2, 1987, two bars in Boston tapped the first kegs of Harpoon Ale. Commercial breweries had returned to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Rich Doyle and Dan Kenary delivered the kegs tapped at Doyle’s Café in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood and at the Sevens Ale House in Beacon Hill. The pair, along with... View Article

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