OCTOBER 2021 ISSUE

Fall Releases & Special News Pieces
And just like that - it's fall again! We're embracing the cooler temperatures and upcoming foliage with our deeper, richer beers and some exciting local mentions!
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Revisiting Beers that Launched Maine’s Brew Revolution
by: DAVE PATTERSON | photography: JARED McKENNA | October 2021
From Geary’s Pale Ale to Allagash White, these heritage beers paved the way for the craft beer movement in the Pine Tree State.

Built on innovation and upheaval, the craft beer revolution of the twenty-first century rarely looks backward. That’s why we love it. Brewers are on an endless quest to experiment with cutting-edge hop strains, wild yeast fermentation, and specialty ingredients to satiate the sophisticated palates of the modern beer drinker. Craft beer has become a field beloved for its creativity, a place where avant-garde brewers become industry rock stars one provocative ale at a time. And nowhere is this more evident than in Maine, the state with the most breweries per capita and home to a staggering number of sought-after beers.

But in this forward-looking spin cycle of transformation and change, it’s important to take a step back from time to time and ask, “How did this all start?” In an attempt to return to the roots of brewing in Maine, I recently sampled some of the state’s heritage beers first brewed in the 1980s and ’90s. While the technologies of these breweries have become more sophisticated over the past 30 years, these beers have generally remained true to their original recipes. I went back, not only to see how these beers hold up to their latter-day successors, but also to connect myself with the foundation of this explosive industry—the way one might listen to the scratchy recordings of Blind Lemon Jefferson to better understand the Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights.”

Sitting beside my firepit beneath the late summer stars, I pop open the beer that started it all: Geary’s Pale Ale. In 1986, it was the first beer legally brewed and sold in Maine after the end of Prohibition. The squat brown bottle and brown sugar aromatics make me awash in nostalgia. Memories from the early 2000s, of camping trips and raucous nights at Bull Feeney’s in the Old Port, flood my mind. As I quaff the bottle of English ale, fresh notes of malted caramel and biscuit work over my palate with a slightly bitter finish from the subtle addition of hops. After a few sips, my tongue is coated with a pleasant, saccharine mix of brown sugar and copper. This beer is better than I remember. I get no hints of the unpleasant byproducts that can arise from the misuse of the ringwood yeast pitched in this beer. It’s hard for an antiquated British-style ale to stand up next to the juicy New England IPAs that dominate today’s market, but Geary’s Pale Ale still has a place in the industry and in my heart. (Read More Here)
Fall Beers Are Out!

Stop by our Tasting Room or find them in select stores!

  • Off Trail Brown Ale
  • Doppelgänger Dark Lager
  • HSA 12 can pack
  • Welcome Home Milk Stout (coming soon)

From prohibition to pints: Craft beer in Vacationland
BY JOSH ROBIN - CHIEF NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER AND BRIANNE BARRY
PUBLISHED 7:05 AM ET AUG. 26, 2021

PORTLAND -- More than anyone else, perhaps, Alan Pugsley could be crowned the founder of Portland’s craft brewing renaissance. Some even call him the “Johnny Appleseed” of Maine beer. 

For Part 1 of this story check out Craft Beer in Vacationland: Prohibition to Pints
By his own reckoning, Pugsley has helped start about 100 breweries around the world, but his stateside career began when Maine native David Geary summoned Pugsley to leave his native England and brew English style ale in the United States... (Read More Here)
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This ultimate reader- and drinker-friendly guide
approaches its subject by style, just like a pub menu.

More than 100 varieties are covered: pilsners, porters, stouts, pale ales, lagers, helles, and even Japanese sakes (made from rice, a grain, they're technically beers!) and European farmhouse ales, reflecting how the American craft movement has traveled overseas and returned with some old tricks made new again.

It covers the history, the alchemy, the curiosity, and the pleasure—from how to taste like a brewer to the art of food pairings to the rise of beer tourism.
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