Purchasing - July 13, 2006

What’s purchased to make Harpoon Brewery’s products may sound deceptively simple—malted barley and hops, which are added to water and yeast for fermentation into the alcoholic malt beverage. Except, each of the dozen beers and ales produced at Harpoon Brewery plants in Boston and Windsor, Vt., require different ingredients—and they all have to be packaged for sale. That keeps Sean Cornelius, the assistant vice president of brewing operations for Mass Bay Brewing Co., very busy.

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