Maine’s biggest brewery is turning 20 years old today! Shipyard Brewing Company is celebrating the fact that they have been brewing beer for two decades now. A celebration that not many breweries have the luxury of having. Not only is Shipyard Maine’s largest brewery by volume but it’s also the 14th largest in the country. ...
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Driving You To Drink & Photograph Locally The Maine Brew Bus will be hosting a very special tour with internet-famous beer photographer John Kleinchester. The two forces will come together to bring you a tour of photographic proportions. If you know anything about my blog Active Beer Geek than you know that I love ... The post Th ...
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A Beer Festival Is Coming To Lewiston! That’s right! Baxter Brewing Company is hosting the first annual Great Falls Beer Festival THIS SATURDAY! The festival includes 29 local and national breweries with different beers each. Of course like most beer festivals there is a VIP session with rare and unique craft beers (read: barrel aged, ...
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Craft Beer Growlers 101 Growlers are a great asset to the craft beer world. It allows you to bring a refillable vessel to a brewery or store front and refill it with freshly tapped beer. It opens your world up to limited-released beers that are only available at breweries. I have a collection of growlers ...
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What are Bissell, Foundation, and Austin Street Up To? One Industrial Way has been home to breweries for quite a while now. In the past it housed Bull Jagger Brewing Company and Maine Beer Company. Now both of those breweries have been replaced with 3 new kids on the block: Bissell Brothers Brewing Company, Foundation ...
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800 Pounds of Oysters?! Baxter Brewing Company has teamed up with DC Brau to create a new Black IPA with oysters, 800 pounds of oysters in the mash to be precise. Both breweries only can their craft beers. First, Baxter went down to DC Brau in Washington DC and used 800 pounds of Chesapeake Bay ...
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Running and Beer? My two favorite things! Craft Brew Races makes it’s debut in Portland, Maine tomorrow May 24th! What is Craft Brew Races? It’s a 5K race followed up by a craft beer festival with local breweries in attendance. Unfortunately, the online registration is closed as of a few nights ago but you can ...
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York Has A New Brewing Company That Will Surprise You SoMe Brewing Company is a new brewery in York, Maine.I paid them a visit about 4 months ago and interviewed the owner & brewer David Rowland. We talked about SoMe, his family, and their beer (which was delicious). The drive all the way down to ...
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Two NEW Saisons go head to head We’re back with the second take on Beer Vs. Beer! Today I’m here with two new saisons on the market that are from big craft breweries Stone Saison vs. Allagash Saison. West coast vs. East coast. I love the fact that these two American powerhouse breweries released a ...
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The Month of May is amped up for #BeerChat Every Thursday at 9PM EST pull up your virtual bar stool and chat alongside beer geeks on Twitter. Every week is a different topic and possibly a different guest host. This whole entire month of May we are having a different host every week. This means ...
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