I like the sound of the BBQ at Salvage. Polly. Lemonless Lemonade IPA (6% ABV), to the tune of three Spanish couples cheering with a bottle of bubbly, no less. Now this is my kind of guide! Foundation Brewing’s Epiphany IPA playing second fiddle to Eventide Oyster Company’s lobster roll. Bissell Brothers is located at the southwestern corner of the peninsula, in a refurbished warehouse at Thompson Point, an up-and-coming neighborhood accessible via a walking/biking trail (among the businesses in the complex is the Cryptozoology Museum). the American pale ales and IPAs. Cheers! Rising Tide – 4.5 Farmhouse ales are the most recent addition to our beer-drinking repertoire. I am a porter fan but am always excited to try out other offerings … I love beer flights! We would have loved to sip the most memorable brew of our trip from a tulip glass while sitting on a dock watching ships go by. Within a few years, the reformulated flagship IPA won gold at the GABF, and its new reputation was solidified as Portland's IPA king. Taps over an old bathtub and a nicely restored fireplace mantle and chimney are a nice nod to the love of things reclaimed. And the bigger brews still pack a punch. Even after 2-ounce samplers of these brews we were so hopped out we decided to forgo the Flume Double IPA (8% ABV) and Endless Ride Kettle Sour (3.7%). True to the tongue-in-cheek description, it did cure what ailed us at the time (a hazy IPA overload), becoming a sort of a palate cleanser. I have heard good things about the breweries in Portland and it’s good to learn about them. Inside was human mayhem: people curl through airport-style tape barriers dividing queues for can purchases and for drafts and crowd around long communal tables and rounds furnished from oil barrels. It being New England, English styles are much more common in Portland, Maine, and there is a strong current of Belgian inspiration. and The Salad Lobby as well as Immigrant in Chief at Salad Bowl USA. You can’t miss their name or logo in Portland, as they are pretty much everywhere (and if you do manage to miss Shipyard, they own Sea Dog Brewing as well). In a city with more breweries than any other on earth, the simple act of ordering a beer is not always so simple. This is super comprehensive, thank you! In addition, Sea Dog’s beer list features an unusual number of fruit-fortified brews, including Apricot, Raspberry, and Blueberry Ales. The lunch buffet sampler tray looks good but where is the food? woaaah! IPA (8.3% ABV) is so aggressive, citrusy, and resin-y it’s hard to tell it’s an IPA. Hours: Sunday–Tuesday noon to 9:00 p.m., Wednesday–Saturday noon to 11:00 p.m. Good sports bar in Portland Maine. Hypothesis #2 (5% ABV). While we didn’t sample any of the hard stuff, they know what they’re doing when it comes to beer. Hours: Monday and Thursday 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Friday–Saturday noon to 7:00 p.m., Sunday 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (closed Tuesday–Wednesday), Hours: Monday & Wednesday–Saturday noon to 7:00 p.m., Sunday noon to 5:00 p.m. (closed Tuesday), Hours: Thursday–Monday noon to 7:00 p.m. (closed Tuesday–Wednesday). But with limited opening hours (Tuesday and Wednesday are popular off-days) and no food served (some breweries sometimes host a food cart/truck outside), visiting these breweries requires a bit of advance planning so you don’t turn up hungry or when they’re closed. Definitely bookmarking this for when I do get a chance to visit Portland, Maine. All of which is to say, craft beer continues its rise in the Pine Tree State, including in its biggest city, defying the national flattening trend. The advantage: the full and dedicated attention of the friendly bartender/co-owner who shared the story behind the brewery’s name (dogs! They even have their own pub at the airport, the only brewery that enjoys the privilege. Luckily, the lineup also included a lone lighter brew. The limited-edition Samara Maple Brown Ale (7% ABV) is a lovely specimen with strong notes of added maple and coffee, a liquid dessert to top off the day’s walking-and-drinking adventures. Though we dont drink beer I would love to check out a few of these breweries ! Four breweries are located in South Portland, making them the best breweries near Portland, Maine. Even better: It came served with a healthy dose of sunshine melting the snowbanks from a storm a few days prior. We host a rotating lineup of our core and seasonal offerings and features new beers and pilot brews that have not yet hit the market. Thank you for such a complete and elaborate guide . Who knew hanging out at warehouses was so hot! A brewery that seems to produce real great drinking beer. Destination breweries with brew pubs, like Gritty’s or Sea Dog, are comfy places to enjoy a few pints and classic pub grub. Our insider’s guide is here to help. Foulmouthed Brewing is on the other side of Casco Bay, in South Portland. / Peter Korchnak & Lindsay Sauvé, BONUS 2: Breweries in South Portland, Maine, General observations about Portland, ME breweries, Portland, ME breweries map (2018 edition), The foodie traveler’s guide to Serbian food, Best restaurants in Olympia, WA (breweries included), 34 dishes that will make you crave Slovak food (with recipes), How to find the best international food in Berlin. What an interesting and extensive list of breweries in Portland! When Breakside debuted in 2010 in the distant Northeast neighborhood of Woodlawn, it was known for its eclecticism, including many “gastronomic” beers with fruits, vegetables, and spices. A bit hazy and very hoppy and dry in the finish, Afterglow is one of those big brews that make you thirstier as you drink them. Cheers! The other two brews in our sampler were completely new styles to us. “Ok so I thought I had been to a few pretty good places for selections of craft brews and tasty wines before in Maine until I stepped into this little hidden gem tucked away in…” more, “What a welcomed find during quarantine. Adding a business to Yelp is always free. Salad Daze (4.7% ABV) is a German-style lager made with Citra hops for a refreshing and surprisingly citrusy brew. With dozens of breweries and countless locally sourced restaurants, it’s no wonder Portland, Maine, is a beer geek and food lover’s paradise. From Connecticut to Maine, we’ve hit a bunch of great spots. Bissell Brothers Brewing. We haven’t visited all of them yet but, these are the ones I’ve been to with my 1-5 rating (5 being the best). When you access a brewery’s tasting room through a giant gift shop, no one would blame you for a healthy pint of skepticism. But even your introverted reviewers managed to strike up a conversation with a fellow traveler. Gritty’s is another old Portland brewery, established in 1988. A month before our 2017 visit, the Geary family sold the Portland, Maine microbrewery, a response to the same market pressures old breweries in Portland, Oregon, like Bridgeport, have faced. It being the end of a walk-and-drink brewery tour around Portland, we only sampled a lone brew. Haven’t been to Portland yet but will definitely look back on your article for some breweries to visit when we do go there. What a great guide this is about brewberries in Portland. Will keep this in mind when I am in Portland. However, four businesses in Portland have found a way to start serving drinks again. I love the food breweries often have some of the best veggie burgers ever and beer cheese! Your guide will come in handy, thanks! Sounds like Boothbay Craft Brewery’s Route 27 Lager. A one barrel pilot system has even been rolling out experiments. Lone Pine sits at the top of the section of East End nicknamed Yeast Bayside for all the breweries located there (I also heard it called Yeast End). We invite you to visit the Shipyard Tasting Room at our brewery in Portland, Maine. Many breweries incorporate ingredients to make a uniquely Maine beer like The Maine Beer Company’s Post Ride Snack that has underlying notes of grass and pine, while Northern Maine … Delivery Services. Knowing the style of beer a brewery does is so helpful to choose which ones to visit! As a result, we found Maine microbrews to be lighter in body than we are accustomed to. We are open daily and sell flights, 10 oz pours, growlers, and packaged product as well as Capt’n Eli’s Soda. The Everlong Hoppy Pale Ale (5.5% ABV) lives up to its name in being surprisingly hoppy, and it walks just this side of hazy life. With friendly staff and board games, the unassuming, small tasting room reminded us of a common room at a hostel or dorm. Visit Maine Beer Co. Twenty minutes north of Portland sits Freeport, Maine, a city best known for housing the L.L. I hope to go to Portland some day. The Machine (5.2%) is the closest we had to a true Czech Pilsner in Portland, ME breweries. The flagship Export Golden Ale (5.1% ABV), the Coffee Porter (4.5% ABV), and the unique beer & tea fusion Sea Dog Fireberry Tea Ale (4.6% ABV) are all fine, quaffable ales. Where the Oyster Milk Stout (6% ABV), made with local oyster shells, has a briney undertone befitting Portland’s maritime spirit, Chaga Stout (5% ABV) is dry with notes of dark chocolate. On the flipside, a local rag reported that the brewery was growing, so maybe there will be a place to go with the intriguing concept of organic beer too. it was love at first taste and I should have photographed the can. Now if you’ll please excuse us, we’re stick around until the grisette revival, driven by Oxbow and other American microbreweries, reaches the Pacific Northwest. If you visit Portland, Maine, you’ll inevitably end up on Commercial Street, a harbor-facing thoroughfare with seafood restaurants and ferry terminals—and Liquid Riot Bottling Company. With 33 rotating taps and some 400 bottles on offer, you can sample beer from many Maine breweries. The effort was worth it 😉. This should be evrybody’s go to guide while in Portland! You’ve photographed the beers wonderfully, you make me want to go out for a beer right now! This is one exhaustive post on Breweries. That it’s triple dry-hopped helps all the notes stand out, too. Quite the impressive guide to breweries in Portland, Maine. This comprehensive list of breweries in Portland, Maine (and South Portland)* is the result of excessively intensive, existentially taxing, and extensive field research. Now we’ve got both coasts covered. Since it began in 1992, Shipyard has grown to be the biggest brewery in Maine. It was unsettling, even frustrating at first, as we kept wondering where “the middle” went. Stars & Stripes Brewing Untappd: 3.56 Closed Mondays and Tuesdays 12 PM – 9 PM Wednesday through Saturday, 12 PM – 6 PM Sunday Food: No. But once we shed our conditioned expectations, the beer drinking experience became more subtle and challenging. The Farmhouse Pale Ale (6% ABV) is a delightful, mildly hoppy saison. South Portland, too, gained a brewery since our last visit. 🙂. The rest of the impressive lineup will have to wait for another time. Bean Outlet as well as Maine Beer Company, a producer of hoppy American-style ales. What would you tell an outtah-statah about Maine? Hours: Monday–Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m., Sunday 11:00 a.m. to midnight. We tried to avoid drinking the kinds of beers we already knew from the West Coast, e.g. The Portland Maine brewery scene boasts the most breweries per capita in the United States. It was tough to pick from the 17-strong list. Rising Tide Brewing is an artisanal craft brewery in Portland, ME offering beer in an airy tasting room, live music, food trucks, private events, tours, and more. Hazy is to regular IPA is like Sturm/burčiak (new-young wine) is to mature wine: not even close. Our favorite bit was the design of the posters serving as the beer list. This alleyway joint is one of the best beer bars in the country, according to the Brewers Association, and hands-down our favorite bar in Portland, Maine. Yes, it’s not the best known fact. In Oregon, beer-trail type initiatives stay on the local level, e.g. Their Belgian-inspired beers are widely available and popular across the state and beyond. Enter the small taproom of Goodfire Brewing, at the back of the building housing Lone Pine Brewing, on a day of a beer release as we did of the Tri Combs Double IPA (8% ABV), and you’ll find yourself in a cramped, bustling space. Cue lines out the garage door on a sunny, crisp Saturday and the tiny space and roped-off patio crammed to the brim. Here in FL, we usually are stuck with wheat and pale ales. Luckily there are two other breweries to check out in the same building (Austin Street, see above, and Foundation, see below). You’ll get a twofer there: it is both a brewery and distillery, both of which are on view behind the bar. You are definitely a beer connoisseur! It was a lot of fun to do the research blind like that. Book accommodations in Portland, Maine ›. As we point out throughout this article, the lack of nuance in hazy beers leaves us unimpressed; what’s the point, it you can’t taste anything but the juice? The other dark ale on the small list, Six Grain Milk Stout (6.4% ABV), has just the right lactose bite beneath a solid body. Thanks for sharing. Only a few of the Portland, Maine breweries serve food, so pick carefully. Just a seven-minute drive away, this centrally located craft brewery offers excellent artisanal craft ales that they call “Imperial Attitude Ales.” Plus, you can find tasty food and friendly service at the adjoining Watershed Tavern. A stone’s throw from Allagash, Austin Street Brewery is in the same industrial office park building as Foundation Brewing and Battery Steele Brewing (see below). Great details to plan a beer tour. Here, in addition to finding greasy bar food, you will also find deliciously curated healthy options, atypical of most brewery food. For Father’s Day we visited 2 great small breweries. I’ve never been but this is so helpful for those planning to visit. Portland, Maine being a small town, it is possible to visit most breweries on foot. Before we could get to the saison, stout, or barleywine, we ran out of patience and daylight. The only thing missing at this Portland, Maine brewery was a fireplace. Thanks, Jolene. I love breweries and we are stouts and porters people. 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The granddaddy of Maine breweries opened a tasting room last summer, offering a rotating selection of its English-style beers in 5-ounce and 10-ounce pours. I would highly recommend this to anyone who also loves beer more than anything. I never would have guessed that. Conveniently located down the road from Allagash (Austin and Foundation are on the same street), Geary’s is the oldest craft brewery in Maine. The Bandolier (5.5% ABV) is a bière de printemps, a light bière de garde farmhouse ale brewed for the spring, with a lovely malty sweetness providing an opening shot for a tart ride. I don’t drink Beer, but I can appreciate a comprehensive article! You learn something new everyday. Search for “breweries in Portland” or “Portland breweries” and your results page will take you to Oregon. We are finding the learning curve to be even steeper than that from Pilsners we accustomed to in Europe to IPAs in the Pacific Northwest. My husband loves great beer and I love to plan in a few brewery visits and great beer bars in our travels. Unlike in the West Coast Portland, the English-style fare and seafood stand out. This is a very detailed post. Portland is one of my favorite cities but I’ve not done any of the breweries there. And, like the breweries on Industrial Way in Portland, Island Dog Brewing, established in June 2017 and inspired by a visit to a microbrewery on a beer bus tour, occupies a warehouse space in a nondescript business park building. But Map 40 (7.5% ABV), a stout, was just about perfect: rich and creamy with a medium body, yet refreshing with the pick-me-up of cold-brewed coffee it is blended with. Food is great too. My husband would love this; he’s really into craft beer! And unlike Liquid Riot, another brewery” more, “Wow wow wow. The tasting room has that cavernous warehouse feel with large tables you would expect at an industrial park location but once it fills up, it gets tight. We’ve updated this Portland, Maine breweries map for 2018 (let us know in the comments if we missed anything), and note that what you see is but a small portion of the larger Maine brewery map. You can’t drink a full pint but the friendly staff will offer you a free flight of four (and excellent restaurant recommendations, if you ask). Live acoustic…” more. "Plenty of tables, plenty of wide ranging beers to choose from including soda! RESTAURANT TAKEOUT/DELIVERY IN PORTLAND. A beer for the road. Before you get your beer from a list leaning toward sours, the bartender spotchecks your glass against the light for cleanliness. The working title of the original version of this guide to Portland, ME breweries was, “How to visit 10 Portland, Maine breweries in 3 days.” The solution: on foot. Hear the story of the Bennu Coconut Stout (8.1% ABV), for example, a tasty, well-balanced dessert-like brew made by all the women who work at the brewery, including the head brewer Lisa Kellndorfer. I’m not much of a beer drinker myself but I know that your list will get hubby all passionate about going on a brewery-designed holiday! But if you’re in the mood for great beer and a fantastic meal, try these spots that serve the best brewery food in Portland. We visited the same Saturday as Bissell Brothers, and the contrast couldn’t have been starker. Who new there was so many breweries in Portland!! Hours: Monday–Saturday noon to 7:00 p.m., Sunday noon to 5:00 p.m. The two stouts helped squash the heartburn we developed from the first three brews and replace the bad taste in my mouth with delightful dessertiness. The tasting room is on premises at the brewery and also serves as the start/end point of brewery tours, which are no longer free. All of the beers we tried met our expectations of each style; they were good but there were also no surprises. Portland vs Seattle: Which city has the best food and beer? 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