Tag Archives: Growlers

Maine brewery serves up free pizzas every Friday night

It’s Friday night, you’re hanging out with friends, there’s live music, for dinner you are eating pizza and drinking craft beer. Could this friday get any better? How about if you were at the brewery that brewed the beer you are drinking and the pizza is free? Thats a pretty good Friday evening. I just […]

Sometimes you drive from Bangor to Portland for beer

Sunday was a family day, a trip to Freeport spurred on by my son’s need for a new winter coat and some new pants, L.L.Bean and Carters were the destinations, but for the Lothian family a trip south always includes craft beer. To clarify, the kids don’t get any craft beer and the parents don’t […]

Building a brewery: Orono Brewing Company

If you haven’t caught it on the news in the past couple days, there’s a new brewery coming to Orono, Maine, the Orono Brewing Company is currently in the building phase in the basement space below Verve Burritos. I took the opportunity to stop in and check out the progress and chat with Co-owners of […]

Growler care is simple and more people should do it

I was recently sitting in a brewery tasting room and I noticed a disturbing trend, over the course of an hour or so that I sipped my fine craft beverage I watched individuals enter carrying empty growlers. That’s not disturbing, I’m actually happy to see people visiting a local business and utilizing a reusable container […]

Beer bill in the Legislature – Where it sits, where it will go

On April 24, LD 1082, the bill “Concerning the Ability of Off-premises Liquor Licensees to Dispense Liquor in Sealed Refillable Containers” went before the Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs. The bill was subject to testimony in support and opposition prior to being voted on by the committee. The committee came to a divided status — […]

Beer and brewery photos from my trip to Vermont

I spent this past weekend travelling to Vermont, I went for a family function but of course i hit every brewery i could while i was there. Here are some photos from Hill Farmstead, Rock Art, The Alchemist, Fiddlehead, Magic Hat and 14th Star. If you use Instagram follow me at http://instagram.com/#ifmycoastercouldtalk for photos of beer, […]