Brews and Books has published a nice round-up of the news regarding a selection of Maine beer being sent to the White House. The cache of free beer for President Obama was prompted by a call out to Bill Milliken from Maine Beer and Beverage during the President’s speech at the Expo Center earlier this month.
Update: there’s also a report in Tuesday’s Press Herald.
Category: Beer
Baxter Brewing Co.
Blog About Beer author Luke Livingston has announced that’s he’ll be opening a brewery in Lewiston to be called Baxter Brewing Company.
What I am about to write has been a non-stop, full-time eleven months in the making (and many years in a dream): I am opening my own brewery.
Baxter Brewing Co. will be the first brewery north of Connecticut to can its entire line of beer. Located in the historic Bates Mill in Lewiston, Maine, Baxter beers will be distributed throughout the state of Maine beginning in September 2010 and across northern New England in 2011.
RSVP, Maine Brewing Supply and The Great Lost Bear
Brews and Books blogger Josh Christie has published another article in his series about beer in Portland on the Hop Press website. In this new installment he writes about RSVP, Maine Brewing Supply and The Great Lost Bear.
From Mecca to Heaven
Earlier this month Imbibe magazine had named Portland an emerging beer mecca. Not to be out done, The Atlantic (via Beer Locavore) has published an article calling our city a Craft Beer Heaven.
DL Geary & Maine Beer Company
Beer Blogger Josh Christie is writing a series of articles on Hop Press about beer in Maine. His first piece profiles D.L. Geary Brewing and the Maine Beer Company.
Today, I’ll introduce you to two craft breweries here in my hometown of Portland. There’s a lot of history and potential in these two breweries – DL Geary Brewing is the oldest craft brewery in the state at about 24 years old, and Maine Beer Company is the newest. I’ll start filling in the rest of the chronology next week.
DL Geary & Maine Beer Company
Beer Blogger Josh Christie is writing a series of articles on Hop Press about beer in Maine. His first piece profiles D.L. Geary Brewing and the Maine Beer Company.
Today, I’ll introduce you to two craft breweries here in my hometown of Portland. There’s a lot of history and potential in these two breweries – DL Geary Brewing is the oldest craft brewery in the state at about 24 years old, and Maine Beer Company is the newest. I’ll start filling in the rest of the chronology next week.
Imbibe: America's Emerging Beer Mecca's
The January/February issue of Imbibe magazine list Reno, Austin, Atlanta, Minneapolis-St Paul and Portland as their Fab 5 of America’s emerging beer mecca’s. Portland beer blogger Luke Livingston from Blog About Beer is quoted in the article which calls out Allagash, Geary’s, Gritty’s, Maine Beer Co, Sebago, Shipyard, Downeast Everage, RSVP, Great Lost Bear, Novare Res, and Three Dollar Deweys as evidence of Portland’s beer meccaness. The article isn’t available online but you can pick-up a copy of the magazine at Longfellow Books.
Imbibe: America’s Emerging Beer Mecca’s
The January/February issue of Imbibe magazine list Reno, Austin, Atlanta, Minneapolis-St Paul and Portland as their Fab 5 of America’s emerging beer mecca’s. Portland beer blogger Luke Livingston from Blog About Beer is quoted in the article which calls out Allagash, Geary’s, Gritty’s, Maine Beer Co, Sebago, Shipyard, Downeast Everage, RSVP, Great Lost Bear, Novare Res, and Three Dollar Deweys as evidence of Portland’s beer meccaness. The article isn’t available online but you can pick-up a copy of the magazine at Longfellow Books.
Hangover Cures
The Press Herald’s Meredith Goad has pulled together some hangover cures suggested by local restaurants.
Arlin Smith, the general manager at Hugo’s, discovered that if he added a perfectly poached egg, the Duckfat poutine makes an excellent hangover cure. The cure caught on, and now the whole staff swears by it.
“It fills your belly,” Smith said. “It’s got the grease that coats the lining of your stomach. It’s got the starches going. It’s perfect.”
Koelschip at Allagash
Portland Psst uncovered a blog post published today by The Atlantic about Allagash’s experimentation with the traditional koelschip fermentation.
The future of American craft beer sits in a shed on the industrial outskirts of Portland, Maine. Built by the Allagash Brewing Company in 2007, the shed holds the country’s first commercial “koelschip,” a shallow, 15-barrel steel pan used to cool down beer wort–and expose the beer to naturally occurring yeasts that float in through the shed’s open stained-glass windows.