About 30 vendors from across Maine — 10 more than last year — featured beer, wine, seltzer, cider, mead and cannabis at Mill Park.
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Owners of Auburn-based Strainrite Companies acquire Belfast Bay Brewing
Lobster Ale’s future as Maine craft brew legacy ensured with purchase of one of state’s original craft breweries.
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With an outpouring of branches, Maine breweries are tapping new markets
Battery Steele Brewing and Brickyard Hollow Brewing Co. are the latest beer makers to add new restaurants or taprooms.
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Maine craft brewers ‘own the backyard’ – but beer-making business is on a new playing field
Maintaining market dominance will require adapting to new consumer tastes, a beverage industry expert told brewers at a conference in Portland.
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Developer has plans for another East Bayside brewery or distillery, but no one to run it yet
If the Portland Planning Board approves, a former warehouse would be enlarged to accommodate a yet-to-be-determined beverage maker.
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Hopping around New England’s beer havens
PORTLAND (AP) — The woods of northern New England are known for lots of things: bear, moose, towering pine trees, brilliant fall foliage and icy winters. But these forests are luring a new critter — beer tourists. Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are emerging as major destinations for roving beer lovers. Western states like California […]
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Analysis: Is the craft beer boom coming to a head?
Not too long ago, craft brewers and their fans were worried about larger competitors putting them out of business. The likes of Anheuser-Busch InBev were snapping up craft breweries at a brisk clip in the middle of the decade, changing little but the back-office management and creating a stable of what many derisively dubbed phantom […]
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Seth A. Gosselin
ISLAND FALLS — Seth Adam Gosselin, 35, passed away after a cardiac event took his life while he peacefully slept early Sunday, July 15, 2018. He was 35 years old. Seth was born in Waterville, Maine, and raised in the Fairfield area, graduating from Lawrence High School as president of the Class of 2001. He traveled […]
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Country Brewing: Craft beer industry expands into rural Maine
MONMOUTH — Grateful Grain Brewing Co. sits on a street corner in the Kennebec County town of Monmouth. There is not much to it. A blinking yellow caution light is draped over Route 126 out front and there is a four-pump gas station across the street. “We are in the middle of nowhere,” Grateful Grain […]
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Maine breweries to share $1 million tax break
Tucked inside the recently passed federal tax overhaul was a very specific tax cut that could cumulatively save Maine breweries about $1 million this year. The Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act was passed at the end of 2017 along with tax reforms that lowered both personal and corporate tax rates. The act includes […]