Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| Well, it’s been almost three weeks since my last blog. Sorry for the long dry spell, but I’ve been rather busy, first due to going Outside for ten days, then with getting ready for and starting to teach my class for the fall semester at Kenai Peninsula College. I spent most of the time I was Outside in Maine. While this was primarily a family trip, it did give me time to check out a bit of the Maine beer scene for the first time since 1996.
In many ways, Maine’s craft beer scene today is what I’d love to see Alaska’s become someday. Granted, Maine has more population and is considerably more compact than Alaska, but it currently has some 60 craft breweries, is growing hops locally and producing barley and malting it within the state. I only made it to one actual brewery, Marshall Wharf Brewing Company in downtown Belfast, but good, locally produced craft beer were easily available in every grocery store I went into. I got reacquainted with an old friend, Geary’s Pale Ale, produced by D. … |
Source: Drinking on the Last Frontier
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