Harpoon Celtic Ale:
‘Ello all, and welcome to another day, another beer.  In this installment we will look at the spring offered by Harpoon, a Celtic Ale.  Originally brewed as a seasonal beer for the city of Boston and for it’s taps only, the beer took off as a Saint Patrick’s day brew the following year and since then it’s become their official spring ale.  Now I know all y’all are here for the history and not the beer but humor me for a moment and let me talk about the beer itself.  It pours well with amber color and a clean head that gives off a nose of caramel and hops.  The beer tastes just as the nose would indicate with a strong caramel flavor that upfront (though not sweet) and a strong hop taste that quickly takes over and leaves a strong after taste of itself.  Never being a big fan of this type of beer, for a Celtic ale, this is pretty good and sure would beat the hell out of a cheap average green beer on Saint Patrick’s day.