Josh on March 9th, 2010

Maine is fast becoming the state to be in if you’re interested in going to some great beer festivals. In addition to the yearly biggies (the Spring Brewers Festival, the Maine Lakes Brew Fest and the Maine Brewers Festival), Maine is hosting the second annual Central Maine Brew Fest this April.
The second Central Maine Brew [...]

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Josh on February 2nd, 2010

I am happy to report that Maine can knock one more set of brews off their “can’t get that here” list.
A few days ago, Beer Advocate user cleeze posted that “after bugging all the distributors [in Maine] to pick ST up, we finally found someone.” Without any other information about who he heard this from [...]

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Josh on January 16th, 2010

A whirlwind tour of Maine craft breweries and beer joints. First stops? DL Geary and Maine Beer.

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Josh on November 10th, 2009

This weekend, Luke and I manned the Maine Beer Writers’ Guild table for both sessions of the 2009 Maine Brewer’s Festival.  The changes made over the last couple years (moving back the time of the 2nd session, bringing in different brewers, and even subtle layout changes) have made a huge difference, making the fest significantly [...]

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Josh on November 3rd, 2009

You’re dying to meet Mr. Brews + Books in person, right?  Of course you are!  If you’re headed to the Maine Brewers Festival this Saturday, you can see me talk awkwardly about beer live and in the flesh!
I’ll get the macro information about the festival out of the way before the micro of why I’m [...]

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