January 2008

ANOTHER Classy Beer “Cafe” Coming to Portland!

by Luke

First, thanks to reader “Shel” for the lead on this story! It appears that yet another classy beer “cafe” is coming to Portland (it was never my intent to make blogaboutbeer.com all about Maine but with the huge influx of Maine-beer-news over the past few weeks, it’s tough not to). A company calling themselves Novare [...]

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A $400 Pint of Carlsberg

by Luke

Carlsberg claims it has made “probably the best beer in the world” and they’re backing it up with a price tag to match. According to bloomberg.com, The brewer, Scandinavia’s biggest, introduced a beer today that costs 2,008 Danish kroner ($396.47); the price being based on the year of its introduction. The Vintage No. 1 brew [...]

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Maine Beer Briefs for January 24th

by Luke

Hi all; hope you like the new layout (thoughts?) Just a few things from around the state o’ Maine to report. First, it’s not too late to sign up for ‘Enhancing Beer Appreciation 101′ at Kennebec Homebrew Supply in Farmingdale. Beer Appreciation 101 is a two-part class “designed to expand knowledge of the world’s beer [...]

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A Year of Beer Adventure

by Luke

Chris Nelson and his wife Merideth Canham-Nelson of Carmel Valley, California were at the annual Great Alaska Beer & Barley Wine Festival this past weekend in Anchorage, Alaska. So what, you ask? The Nelsons are two self-prescribed “beer geeks” who have proclaimed 2008 The Year of Beer and are thus spending the year traveling the [...]

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Please Nominate me for Best Portland Blog!

by Luke

Just a quick side-note to beg for your nomination for best Portland Blog in the The Portland Phoenix’s Best of Portland competition. Nominations are open now through February 14th (when the actual voting begins). Just visit: http://thephoenix.com/theBest/portland/ and click on the “City Life” section. Thanks for your support!

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3Tides Brewery Making Waves in Coastal Maine

by Luke

You may have seen this already this morning over at A Good Beer Blog, but Villagesoup.com wrote a piece today about the 3Tides and Marshall Wharf Brewery, a new Maine Microbrewery upda coast in Belfast, profiling brewery owner David Carlson and brewmaster Dan McGovern. Villagesoup.com describes the 3Tides beers as, “homemade and tasty, and they [...]

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