Location: 525 US Route 1 Freeport, Maine. A very easy stop off of I-295 if you are in the area. Their tasting room offers flights and full pours of 8 selections, plus bottles to go. It is a welcoming place to sit and hang out, especially if you need to take a break from shopping at the outlets […]
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Maine Beer Co. King Titus
Tomorrow I am planning on posting my first brewery overview article covering Maine Beer Company. As part of my research for this article, I have been tasting or re-tasting a few of their beers to get their work fresh in my head. I hope to make this a trend, posting a standard review right before the brewery overview. While […]
Maine Beer Co. Lunch
Until recently there were very few stores that specialized in beer. In Maine, where I grew up and went to school, they sold beer at every local grocery store and convenience store. Some places took pride in offering a good variety of choices that skewed towards local selections, but most were just taking advantage of […]
Allagash/Maine Beer Co/Rising Tide Prince Tuesday
Unlike many industries that focus entirely on competition, craft brewers love to collaborate. Most of the popular craft breweries have brewed collaboration beers, Sierra Nevada is even releasing a 12-pack with twelve different beers each brewed with a different brewery this Summer. In a seminal series of articles Bangor, ME based beer writer Chad Lothian had a group […]
Maine Beer Co. Another One IPA
With their hop-forward selection of ales Maine Beer Co. in Freeport, ME has become one of the most popular new breweries in New England. Some of their ales, including their IPA Lunch, are very difficult to find, selling out as soon as they are released. I am originally from Maine and Freeport is on the […]
Maine Beer Co./Allagash/In’finiti 2013 Ale
One of the best trends started by the explosion of craft brewing in the US was the advent of collaboration beers, where multiple breweries contribute to a single recipe. Each brewery has its strengths and areas of expertise, and when two or more brewers combine their ideas the results can be amazing. Some collaboration beers […]
Maine Beer Company Peeper Ale
I have a soft-spot for the state of Maine, and pretty much everything from Maine, it is where I was born, raised and went to college. Maine has had a small but strong stable of craft breweries for years now, and the explosion of interest in craft beer has definitely reached the state, leading to […]