Learn Your Beer

October 9, 2011

Lewiston's finest

Last weekend, revolutionary brewery owner Luke Livingston of Baxter Brewing gave us a tour of the cutting-edge brewery in Lewiston, Maine. For those of you who don’t know, Baxter is one of Maine’s newest breweries and New England’s first all-canned craft brewery. The best part?...

October 8, 2011

No New Hampshire Brewers Festival in 2011

Due to a number of reasons, the New Hampshire Brewers Festival will not take place this year. We’ve enjoyed getting to know each of the participants, brewers and vendors, and we greatly appreciate the support throughout the past few years. We hope you’ll join us in November at the...

August 28, 2011

A Morning with Sebago Brewing Company

A little bit ago, we had the honor of touring Sebago and Allagash in Portland, and we were able to capture some of our tours on video. Both breweries are excited to be a part of the 18th-annual Maine Brewers Festival on Nov. 5, and they have some great products in the mix. Most importantly,...

August 23, 2011

Shipyard pizza crust in Naples, Maine

En route to Bethel, Maine, for the week, we took a roundabout way from Portland to our destination. Along the way, we realized we forgot to buy our Portland Pie Pizza crust at the local market on our way out of town. We had been planning on making homemade pizzas for dinner, so we...

July 26, 2011

Maine Brewers Festival & Social Media

With the persistent rise of social media, the Maine Brewers Festival is jumping on the band wagon. In the upcoming months, you will see a significant amount of content we create and publish to our social media channels this year. We've excitedly launched our Twitter account,...

August 15, 2010

How Do You Know Which Beers to Try?

It has been such a super summer for tasting and enjoying great beers. How do you know which brews to try? I always ask “what local craft beer do you have on draft?” This summer I tried summer ales from all over New England, and also some from away. They’re all light and refreshing...

February 8, 2010

Cupid Loves Craft Beer!

I'm not much of a football fan anymore, but I do love an excuse for the aggressive pursuit of nachos and hot dogs and beer. We had some good fun yesterday, including replacing the traditional dogs with locally-made haddock dogs… wicked good! Poppers Sausage Kitchen (Dover, NH) rustled...

November 19, 2009

Photos posted from NH Brewers Fest!

Happy Hour Session Photos: All the photos remain copyrighted by Marie Forcier, Fine Art Photography & Design. To order prints, email Marie at marie@marieforcier.com

November 15, 2009

Chocolate and Beer Pairing at NH Brewers Festival

We want to thank everyone who joined us at the New Hampshire Brewers festival this year for our Taza Chocolate and beer pairing classes. We had a lot of fun meeting you all and introducing you to the wonderful world of beer and chocolate. For those who attended we've provided...

November 15, 2009

First New Hampshire Brewer’s Festival held in Manchester

By DEAN SHALHOUP Staff Writer Print W e always hear about the things we shouldn’t do during and after drinking beer, such as drive a car or operate machinery. But to Bert Bingle, it’s also quite important to know what you shouldn’t do before you open your first cold one. For...

November 13, 2009

Official New Hampshire Brewery Map Released On www.VisitNH.gov

Concord, New Hampshire, November 12th, 2009 – Just in time for this weekend’s 1st Annual NH Brewery Festival (November 13-14), the NH Division of Travel and Tourism Development is pleased to announce the addition of New Hampshire's Brewery Map to the www.visitnh.gov website. The...

November 13, 2009

Featured in Feast!

First brewers festival slated for this weekend IF YOU GO New Hampshire Brewers Festival WHEN: Nov. 13 and 14. WHERE: The Armory at the Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester. BREWERIES: Flying Goose, Gritty McDuff’s, Kennebec River, Manchester Brewing, Martha’s Exchange, Milly’s...

November 9, 2009

Picture Yourself Here! (2009 Maine Fest photos posted!)

Portland's best event photographer, Samuel Cousins, captured the fun, the beer, the bands, and maybe you, at the 2009 Maine Brewers Festival. Take a look at his beautiful photography, remember all the fun, and we’ll see you at Spring Beer Portland on May 22, 2010! View photo...

October 29, 2009

Make The Festival A Holiday!
N.H. Brewfest Package Details have been announced at the Radisson. What a great deal - enjoy both the festival and the Manchester area! The packages provide wonderful amenities. 1. Weekend Brewfest Package $290.00 Includes one night stay for two Friday night brewers...

October 27, 2009

Maine is Sold Out. New Hampshire is Beautiful.
Tickets for both sessions of the Maine Brewers Festival are all gone from this website… BUT… on Monday, the Sebago brewpubs still had a dozen tickets remaining, and

October 23, 2009

Rooms Going Fast - N.H. Brewers Festival
Rooms are booking up now for the New Hampshire Brewers Festival at the Radisson Hotel Manchester. Don't wait! Book your room(s) today. Having a room right there at the Radisson in Manchester takes the worry out of travel. The room rate is $99

October 23, 2009

Live Music! Live Beer! Live Food! Now... Live Feed!
Yup, uh-huh. We are so totally hi-tech around here that we are going to be live streaming both the Maine and the New Hampshire Brewers Festivals! We'll have the feed set up the day before (on Friday), so you will not have to do any work at all on those two Fridays - you can just...

October 22, 2009

Check Out the Amazing Menu for Maine’s Friday Night Dinner!
We had an all-star cast today to plan the Friday Night Dinner With the Brewers event at the Clarion, for Friday the 6th, 6-9pm… Jason Perkins from Allagash, Ed Stebbins from Gritty’s, David Kleban from the Maine Beer Company, Kai Adams from Sebago, and Alan Pugsley from Shipyard. Chef...

October 21, 2009

Planning Today at the Clarion for the Maine Dinner
How's this for a lineup? Shipyard, Sebago, the **new ** Maine Beer Company, Gritty's, and Allagash. We're meeting today with Chef Lee at Portland's Clarion Hotel to plan the five-course Dinner With the Brewers menu for November 6th, 6-9pm. Brewer Wizards in attendance to help...

October 20, 2009

New Hampshire Food Bank Joins Us in Manchester!
Geez, I feel like I got the royal treatment at the New Hampshire Food Bank today. It’s NH’s only central food bank, and it distributes -every week – the equivalent of six tractor trailers of food to local food pantries all...

October 19, 2009

At this rate, the Maine tickets will be sold out by…
At this rate, the Maine Brewers Festival tickets for the Happy Hour tickets on Saturday, November 7 will be sold out tomorrow, Tuesday. Buy ‘em now, ‘cuz the evening session tickets sold out yesterday!...

October 18, 2009

** Poof! **
Evening tickets for Maine are sold out! There is still a handful of Evening tickets available as a package with the Friday Night Dinner, but those will not last long… they might be gone during the day on Monday. Saturday Happy Hour tickets for Maine remain, but they’re almost...

October 5, 2009

Amazing Dinner — Unibroue’s Beers, Local Food
The Barley Pub in Dover, NH, has lined up an amazing beer pairing dinner featuring local foods and some of the best traditionally-brewed natural beers from Quebec’s celebrated Unibroue brewery. The dinner is next Wednesday and...

October 4, 2009

My New Favorite Beer Glass
My New Favorite Beer Glass

October 2, 2009

Here’s Your — Big and Growing — List of Brewers
Here’s Your — Big and Growing — List of Brewers Wowza, this is going to be the biggest list of brewers for the Maine Brewers Festival in years! All your favorites are here, some cool small brewers whose beer may be new to you, and we’ll even have freshly-brewed kegs from Maine’s...

September 24, 2009

Second Maine Brewers Festival Video Released
Here is our latest commercial for the Maine Brewers Festival, and it is running soon on Fox23. We’re proud of Maine’s craft-beer culture, and we hope this spot captures some of that. We posted our first version early last week These brewers are passionate about their work, committed...

September 21, 2009

Maine and New Hampshire Music Lineups
Maine’s own wound-up and rockin’ bluegrass “happy-hardcore” band of Americana! You can see The Toughcats play up and down the Maine coast this fall, and at the

September 18, 2009

Our Latest Maine Brewers Festival Video
Here is our latest commercial for the Maine Brewers Festival, and it is running soon on Fox23. We’re proud of Maine’s craft-beer culture, and we hope this spot captures some of that. We’ll have a second version posted next week. These brewers are passionate about their work, committed...

September 17, 2009

Geary’s and Sebago Are Back
Yep. It’s true. Two of Maine’s favorite and best craft brewers will return to the Maine Brewers Festival this year. We are thrilled to welcome back Sebago Brewing Company and the D.L. Geary Brewing Company! You know Sebago...

August 24, 2008

Two More New Brewers!
If you like a lot of variety, and if you like tasting new beer, we have great news. We have two more new brewers for the Maine Brewers Festival for this year. First, big news on the Maine brewers front as Bar Harbor...

August 17, 2008

Festival Meets Facebook
Checkout our Maine Brewers Festival on Facebook page and become a fan! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maine-Brewers-Festival/140216080329 http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Hampshire-Brewers-Festival/139892301660

August 17, 2008

More Maine Breweries Signing Up!
Big news… Geary’s and Sebago will once again pour their Maine magic at the Maine Brewers Festival this November! These two great brewers have been recently...