Harpoon introduced the 100 Barrel Series in 2003 to showcase the individual brewing talents of their brewers. Visitors are welcome daily to visit the brewery in Windsor and sample Harpoon’s locally-brewed beers straight from the source.
In June of 2000, Harpoon purchased a brewing facility in Windsor, VT and brews roughly 40% of their annual barrelage in the state. Like this beer’s 100 Barrel Series predecessor, the Catamount Maple Wheat, the Vermont Spruce Tip Ale celebrates Vermont and the craft beer drinking culture that thrives there. In total, 212 pounds of spruce tips were harvested and the brewery made a donation in the amount of $2,120 to the Foodbank. In appreciation of the Foodbank’s support, for every pound of spruce tips that were harvested Harpoon made a $10 donation to the Foodbank. In order to maintain the spruce tips’ freshness until they were to be used for the brew, Harpoon’s long-time friends at the Vermont Foodbank offered to lend their airtight food preservation system. Harpoon staff and members of the brewery’s customer loyalty program, Friends of Harpoon, volunteered to help collect the spruce tips from Downer State Park over several days in the spring. It required collaboration with the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, and a team of enthusiastic spruce pickers. Sourcing the spruce tips was no easy task. From there it blossomed into this 100 Barrel Series beer.” “I was pretty pleased with the results so I shared the beer with my colleagues here at the brewery. “I first got the idea for this beer when reading a great book called ‘The Homebrewer’s Garden.’ When spring finally came to Vermont, my wife and I gathered a pound of spruce tips and I brewed a homebrew batch using them,” says Tom.
Harpoon Vermont brewer Tom Graham created the recipe and brewed this 100 Barrel Series beer. A host of malts, a hint of roasted barley and generous use of Chinook hops complement the unique spruce flavor. Harvested at their tender, ripe, bright green peak, the spruce tips impart citrus, pine, spice, herbal and earthy notes. The spruce tips were used in the same way finishing hops might be used, with additions late in the boil and in the whirlpool. The Harpoon 100 Barrel Series Vermont Spruce Tip Ale is a showcase for a traditional yet seldom used brewing ingredient: spruce tips. The Vermont Spruce Tip Ale was brewed using spruce tips harvested from Vermont’s Downer State Forest. This is the 39th offering from Harpoon’s 100 Barrel Series, the brewery’s line of unique, handcrafted limited batch beers. A limited batch beer brewed with locally harvested spruce tipsīoston, MA – This week the Harpoon Brewery released the latest installment of their 100 Barrel Series, Vermont Spruce Tip Ale.
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