The Send Opens Friday

The Send Brewing Company (instagram) will open on Friday, 11:30 am – 9:30 pm. The brewery and restaurant is located at 15 Ocean Street in the Knightville neighborhood of South Portland.

The beverage menu (see below) includes Knightville IPA, Thornton Heights Pale Ale and Ferry Stout on tap as well as Sapporo and Mast Landing All the Way Up. The Send also serves sake, wine, hard seltzer, cider, hot tea and other nonalcoholic options. The Send will start brewing some Japanese-style lagers next year.

Chef Jayde Miller is serving a menu of Japanese comfort food (see below) including onigiri, karaage, okonomiyaki, gyudon, salads, a matcha green tea ice cream. Shown above is the karaage, daikon salad and a glass of the Thornton Heights Pale Ale.

Owner Cole Corbin (linkedin) worked for 8 years at Maine Beer Company initially as a brewer and then as the director of brewing operations and the technical director for the Freeport-based brewery. Earlier in his career Corbin was an aerospace engineer at NASA. Miller is a graduate of Johnson & Wales and spent a year living in Japan.

They’ll be open Thursday through Monday 11:30 – 9:30 except Sunday night when they’ll close at 8:30 pm.