The sacred of all fall traditions in craft beer has arrived, fresh local wet/dry hopped beers! Until recently Maine has not had an abundance of access to fresh locally grown hops. Not until 3 years ago when the Hop Yard came into creation did Mainers expect locally grown hops in their beers. Hops were grown ... The post Jumpin’ Jehosa ...
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This year the Dempsey Challenge was held again in Lewison at Simard-Payne Memorial Park. On both Saturday and Sunday thousands of people gathered together to run, bike, and volunteer all in the name of The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hop and Healing. $1.3 million dollars and counting were raised this weekend from the participants ...
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The last 10 years in the Maine beer industry have seen a dramatic increase in new breweries opening. In fact, . These new kids on the block are looking at already existing breweries and other national newbies and built their blueprints accordingly. There are only 2 staple things that are needed to run a brewery ... The post Maine’s Ta ...
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Looking for something to do on a Saturday? How about a road trip south to a few breweries and beer places? Yesterday I packed my thirsty self in a car with a few friends and we spent the whole day in York County and New Hampshire. We hit Biddeford, Kittery, Portsmouth, and Hampton. Here is ... The post For A Beer Adventure, Go South! appear ...
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Where do I begin to recap this whirlwind weekend that is The Beer Bloggers Conference? Do I start at our visit to Golden Road Brewing Company? Perhaps arriving at LAX airport? I believe this story needs to start from the very beginning: 3AM on Thursday morning. I jumped into my car to drive to Concord ... The post BBC14 Recap Part 1 | The L ...
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The Beer Bloggers Conference is a gathering of writers, bloggers, columnists, media, and public relations professionals with the unified goal of growing online craft beer media. Thanks to the support of friends, family and the Maine Beer Community, I will be able to attend this year’s event in San Diego, CA. Last year the conference . ...
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From a forerunner in the beer industry, Steve Hindy does a fantastic job with Craft Beer Revolution. It was a book filled with so many first hand stories and interviews from other movers-and-shakers in the industry. Steve talks to people like Fritz Maytag, Ken Grossman, Jack McAuliffe, Rob Tod, Paul Shipman…the list goes on. Steve .. ...
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Sierra Nevada has decided to take it’s gigantic beer festival called Beer Camp to a city where life is good there: Portland, Maine. At 5:00PM on August 1st, 124 regional breweries will invade Thompson’s Point with a slew of their handcrafted beer. Sierra Nevada even came to Portland, Maine to collaboratively brew a beer especial ...
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Goose Island Brewing Company spent a week in Portland, Maine and brought some awesomely rare beers with them. Sales reps, brand ambassadors, and even the head brewer Jared Jankoski hosted tap takeovers, heavy beer tastings, and Goose Island featured pub-crawls. The guys at Goose Island are about half way through their 30 city tour of ... Th ...
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Matt Mills and Chris Schofield have started a new brewery in Saco, Maine that are only doing barrel fermentation: Barreled Souls Brewing Company. Barreled Souls employs the Burton Union Brewing System for their fermentation. Invented in the 1830s, burton breweries would connect a series of barrels together through pipes that all ended up in ...
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