
A confiscated fake ID, an exploding homebrew kit and 250 rejected spaces became a brewery beneath SoHo. Now its finance-minded co-founder is testing what independent craft can build together.
Harpoon used a leveraged employee buyout to keep a beloved Boston brewer independent. A decade later, consolidation forced a second experiment: share the machinery, protect the local brands and make the taproom matter as much as the six-pack.