AUBURN — A winding, 87-foot, wooden bar top is installed. There is room for a dozen 275-gallon tanks. And one-quarter of an actual food truck is mounted on a wall. Side By Each Brewing Co. and The Poutine Factory are nearly ready to open. The new businesses, announced last summer, are in the former, 10,480-square-foot […]
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NU Brewery to open this fall in New Gloucester
NEW GLOUCESTER — Two longtime friends are “all in” on their partnership to create a brewery in New Gloucester, which they plan to open in October. The NU Brewery — pronounced “new” — will be at 437 Lewiston Road in a 7,600-square-foot building that housed a farm equipment company and is being renovated. The brewing business […]
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Craft beer flows at Lewiston brewfest
Nichole Pelletier, center, and Dustin Fairbanks, both from Bridgton, enjoy a Ricker’s Hard Cider at the fifth annual Great Falls Brewfest at Simard-Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston on Saturday. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — Despite the rain, the fifth annual Great Falls Brewfest, hosted by local Baxter Brewing, boasted a crowd of 2,200 people Saturday […]
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Waterville’s first micro brewery to open in January
The Waterville Brewing Company, owned by four family friends, is currently under construction in the Hathaway Creative Center. WATERVILLE — The city’s first microbrewery will open this winter in the landmark Hathaway Creative Center along the Kennebec River as the popularity of craft beer continues to grow. Ryan Flaherty, co-owner and co-brewer of the Waterville Brewing […]
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Brunswick loses a brewpub, on track to gain a brewery
BRUNSWICK — Ebenezer’s Brewpub on Pleasant Street has closed for the immediate future, according to its owners. “The place is closed. And we may or may not re-open it,” co-owner Chris Lively said over the phone Monday. He said he and his wife are considering “multiple avenues” for the business, and any plans are too […]
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Maine Senate cans bill allowing brewers to sell beer ‘to-go’
AUGUSTA — A bill that would have allowed Maine craft brewers to more easily sell their products to go was squashed like an aluminum beer can under foot by the state Senate on Tuesday. At issue is whether businesses that make beer should be allowed to sell it more easily from a brewing facility without […]
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South Portland brewery aims for October launch
SOUTH PORTLAND — An auto technician, a landscape contractor and a state government employee walk into a bar. The framework of an otherwise overused joke describes the inception of the Fore River Brewing Co., except the bar is an old salt storage shed that would require renovation and an expansion and the punchline has yet […]
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Couple wants to turn Gardiner church into cider brewery
GARDINER (AP) — A Maine couple wants to open a hard cider brewery inside an old church building in Gardiner, but first they need city approval. David Boucher and his fiancee, Kristina Nugent, of New Harbor, have been looking to open their Lost Orchard Brewing Co. in the former Gardiner Congregational Church for months, but […]
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Shutdown means no new beers on tap
MILWAUKEE — The federal government shutdown could leave America’s craft brewers with a serious hangover. Stores will still offer plenty of suds. But the shutdown has closed an obscure agency that quietly approves new breweries, recipes and labels, which could create huge delays throughout the rapidly growing craft industry, whose customers expect a constant supply […]
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Iraq vets join ranks of Virginia’s rising craft beer biz
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Two Iraq War veterans eager to slake a growing American thirst for craft beer are setting up a brewery less than a mile from the main runway for the Navy’s East Coast master jet base. Their beers have names like “Jet Noise Double IPA and “Pineapple Grenade Hefeweizen.” And their […]