Allen’s Coffee Flavored Brandy has a competitor nipping at its heels. For decades, the coffee-flavored liquor has far outsold other hard alcohol in the Pine Tree State, and Maine accounts for virtually all of Allen’s sales nationwide. Maine drinkers purchase so much coffee brandy that the Allen’s website claims it is “an almost cultural rite […]
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Video: Mysterious fireball lights up the sky over Maine
STANDISH, Maine (WGME) — It’s not New Year’s yet, but the sky is already lighting up as people across New England described seeing a fireball in the sky. Cameras in Maine captured the flash earlier Tuesday night. One man who saw it said he was driving home from work with a coworker along Route 114. […]
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Lewiston 'nips' bottler blasts ban idea, warns it may halt expansion plans
AUGUSTA — Calling a recommendation to ban nips “politically motivated” and unsupported by evidence, a company that churns out the tiny liquor-filled bottles in Lewiston is threatening to pull the plug on a planned $1 million expansion. Sazerac Co., which sells the fast-growing Fireball Cinnamon Whisky brand bottled in Lewiston, said the “rush to judgment” […]
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State liquor panel eyes ban on ‘nips’ that could hurt Lewiston bottler
AUGUSTA — When Gov. Paul LePage makes a threat, he doesn’t often back down. So it didn’t surprise anyone that he asked the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations Tuesday to begin the process of banning the sale of miniature bottles of liquor known as “nips.” LePage vowed to seek the ban if the […]
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Lewiston bottler drops support for recycling bill after LePage threat
AUGUSTA — Following a threat by Gov. Paul LePage to end the sales of tiny bottles of liquor in Maine rather than allow lawmakers to require a nickel deposit on them, a bottler that employs 130 people in Lewiston withdrew its support for the compromise measure. Mark Brown, the chief executive officer of Sazerac Co., […]
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Organization tracking reports of fireball over Maine
A Portland police officer was one of more than 200 witnesses to a fireball that streaked across the Maine sky Tuesday morning. The officer was waiting to catch speeders sometime before 5 a.m. when he saw the sky light up. His cruiser’s dashboard cam caught the fireball too. The American Meteor Society says it received […]
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Fireball streaks across Oxford Hills
HEBRON — There wasn’t necessarily smoke on the water, but there was fire in the sky Sunday evening over Hebron and most of western Maine. A fireball that streaked across the sky alarmed at least one caller, who reported the incident at 5:15 p.m., according to Jim Miclon, director of communications for the Oxford County Regional […]