This is not my first experience with Rising Tide Brewing Company’s Daymark American Pale Ale, but it is the first time that I am actually sitting down to review it. I first had this beer in 2011 during our first family road trip to Southern Maine. I liked it […]
If you’re a regular reader, then you already know about my beer hunting adventures during my family vacation to the great state of Maine this past August. On the Monday morning of our vacation, I made a very brief solo excursion to Portland, where I stopped by Maine […]
During my 2012 family vacation to Maine a few weeks ago, I learned my lesson from my two previous family vacations, i.e. there is no time for brewery tours or serious Craft Beer hunting when you have two small boys, and instead decided to focus on picking up […]
During the last twelve months I have gone on three family vacations. The first of these vacations held out a promise of Craft Brewery tours (last summer’s trip to Maine), and the second one held out a promise of acquiring some hard to find Cigar City Craft Beers […]
As I mentioned in my review of the Maine Beer Company MO Pale Ale, this brewery’s website leaves a lot to be desired. All they have to say about their Mean Old Tom is that it’s a “Stout aged on special vanilla beans”. In their defense, they are a very […]
There isn’t a whole lot of information about Maine Beer Company on their company website. There is even less information about the beers they brew (they currently list five) beyond a generic description. Of the five beers that they make, I have so far had three: Peeper Pale […]
If you want life to slow down a bit, you need to take a break from your usual routine and try something new. This applies to all aspects of life, i.e. work, home, hobbies, vacations, etc.. For five out of the past six years, we have spent our […]
I had some beer related plans for my family vacation to Maine: a visit to the Allagash Brewery in Portland and a visit to Smuttynose in Portsmouth, NH. Although I didn’t get to visit the breweries, I did have several opportunities to do some New England beer hunting. […]