In this episode, we sit down with Colin Hay of Verrill Dana, LLP at Novare Res to talk about the legal side of selling beer. Does his name sound familiar? Listen in as he explains he is often mistaken for the lead singer of Men at Work. In Round 1 Catherine goes over the beers […]

We bring you a special edition short show this week where Amanda, Catherine, and Danno go where no beer podcast has gone before. As Leonard Nimoy once said about adventure. “I think it’s my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.” Non-alcoholic beer is […]

Here in Maine the Brewer’s Wife has a lot in common with the Sea Captain’s Wife: many nights are spent home alone or with the kids while the men work late into the night and they provide moral and financial support while the new business blooms into something we beer drinkers take for granted. Surprisingly, […]

Today we sit down with Asa Marsh-Sachs of Orono Brewing Company. Listen I’m to learn what it is like to brew for a restaurant instead of store shelves. Asa spent most of his adult life working at home brew stores allowing him to fine-tune his beers and learn gain valuable advice and feedback from other […]

Carla Lauter, better known as her pen name: the Beer Babe met up with us at The Frontier in Brunswick, Maine to talk about beer journalism and her love for science. Carla’s career in beer journalism started in 2007 when she started blogging about beers that were new to her. As a scientist, she was […]

Today we chat with Stephen Genthner, founder of Blank Canvas Brewery in Brewer, Maine. Most folks start as home brewers and dream of starting their own brewery, but his journey was a little different. Stephen worked for Allagash pouring beers at a Brewfest before learning to home brew. Over a decade later he started Blank Canvas. […]

Beer and… In the beer culture we are living in now that phrase and be finished in a number of different ways. In this week’s episode we look at beer and running. But not just any running; hashing. Until sitting down with a member of Portland’s Hash House Harriers, hashing was a completely foreign concept. […]

This week we take you to Hallowell Maine, home of the Liberal Cup Public House and Brewery. Casey Hines sat down with us to give a tour the history of Liberal Cup. Jeff Houghton, founder of Liberal Cup went to England to learn traditional brewing, her came back to Maine and worked of many of […]

The beer business is a three tier system: starting with the brewer who makes the beer, the distributor gets the beer on shelves, and the seller who sells us bottles and cans ultimately making us all very happy. Brewers and shop owners are often well respected for their knowledge, and recommendations. But what about the […]

Over the next few months we will get to know a little more about the brewers in and around Bangor. This week Tim Gallon from Black Bear Brewery shares how he went from cook to brewery owner. Everyone needs their own Cheers, a place to go and get the local talk while downing a brew. […]