Tag Archives: Portland

Cold beer and hairy competition in Portland this weekend

If you’ve ever attended a brewfest you’ll understand what I mean when I say it often feels like you’re attending a beard competition. It doesn’t matter what time of year it is, the beer community and the beard community are pretty tight knit, which is why the Bearded Brewfest makes perfect sense. Saturday, March 19, […]

Eat, Drink and be Scary at the Allagash Spooktacular

Allagash Brewing Company is hosting an event double header on Saturday, October 24th that sounds so fun it’s scary. Haunted House and Ghoulschip release If you want these limited release beers you’ll have to be brave and trek through the Allagash Haunted Barrel room, survivors will have a chance to sample and purchase the rare […]

Baxter Brewing Company swings for the fences with upcoming beer dinner

In a press release yesterday, Baxter Brewing Company announced a beer dinner for Monday, August 24, 2015. This isn’t your average beer dinner though, Baxter Brewing has been a long time partner with the Portland Sea Dogs, AA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, who are playing host to the beer dinner. “One of the […]

Maine Brewers Guild Summer Session did not disapoint

The Maine Brewers Guild had a tough task in front of them this summer, throwing down a brewfest one year after the Sierra Nevada Brewfest Across America came to town, in the same venue without all the hoopla that came along with that festival. I had confidence though, and in January I marked July 25, […]

Allagash 20th anniversary interview with Jessica Caruso

Allagash Brewing Company is celebrating 20 years of brewing beer in Maine on Saturday June 27th in Portland by hosting a street fair. There will be live music,entertainment, food and of course great beer. Tickets to the street fair can be purchased online at $10 per person, children 12 and under are free. I can’t […]

Maine Brewers Guild announces summer brewfest

I have had July 25, 2015 circled on the calendar since January. I posted my annual list of New England Brewfests with July 25th simply reading “Maine Brewers Guild Fest – Thompson Point, ME” because that was the extent of the details at the time but it’s one of the festivals I had targeted early […]

Ten rare beers to be poured at Allagash Event in May

Last April I collaborated with beer minded folks from around the state of Maine in The Maine Dream Team-up Project. I asked each participant four questions about who they would like to see in a brewery collaboration, question four was “Free for all! Anything goes here as long as there is 1 Maine brewery involved.” […]

Allagash Brewing hosts first event celebrating 20 years of beer

My wife and I have been looking forward to a weekend in Portland ever since I got the E-vite from Allagash Brewing Company asking if I’d attend their customer appreciation event. I had planned on writing about all the breweries we visited along the way, and we did visit a few but that part of […]

Goodbye In’finiti, Hello Liquid Riot Bottling Company

In’finiti Fermentation & Distillation in Portland closed it’s doors in early January for maintenance, they are opening back up tomorrow, January 16, 2015 at 3pm but regulars will notice a few changes. First off, In’finiti is no more, due to other breweries opening in the past couple of years that named themselves Infinity or something similar. […]

There’s something for every beer geek during Portland Beer Week

I spent an hour looking over the events planned for Portland Beer Week, and it appears to me that they have teamed up with brewers from around the state to punch November straight in the face with craft beer. Portland Beer Week kicks off on Saturday, November 1, 2014 and runs through Friday, November 7, […]