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In Praise of the Beer Bar

Any old bar can pour you a pint. Where do serious beer lovers settle in among their tribe?
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5 Essential Maine Summer Beers

Summer is unarguably the best time of year to drink beer — at picnics and ballgames, on boats and at barbecues, at sunny, seaside beer gardens. Whatever the setting, these five brews are eminently quaffable.
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Novare Res Bier Café

Need a crash course in Maine microbrews? Or do you already count yourself as a true beer aficionado? Either way, Novare Res is here for you.
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Best of Maine: Family 2013

Sprint across floating lobster crates. Build a fire without matches. Rent a VIP limo for your dog. Photo: William Cullina...
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Mainer’s Ale-manac

Talking pubs, Prohibition, and pints with Josh Christie, author of the new book Maine Beer: 
Brewing in Vacationland.
Beer Barrels, Jeremy Ricketts
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5 Maine Beers That Might Surprise You

Maine's breweries churn out some of the nations tastiest and most inventive brews. Here's a round of Maine beers with ingredients that might surprise you.
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Stop Us If You’ve Heard This One

Maine's craft beer scene enables full-throttle entrepreneurship. Get a behind the scenes look at our photo shoot at Allagash Brewing Company with some of the personalities of the Maine beer world.
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Behind the Lens: Maine Beer Bigwigs at Allagash Brewing Company

A marine biologist, a doctor, a pastor, an oyster farmer, and a lawyer walk into a bar . . . and visuals editor Mark Fleming is there to shoot them.
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Oxbow: Maine’s Rural Beer Iconoclasts

From a farmhouse in Newcastle, Oxbow Brewing Company blends knockout beer with a homegrown sense of cool.
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Best of Maine: Outdoors 2013

Surf in Wells. Zip line down Sugarloaf. Have Acadia all to yourself (well, almost). Photo: Paul Rezendes World-Class Nordic Skiing ...
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The Black Birch

Kittery’s Best New Pub By Monica Wood   Photographed by Douglas Merriam The Black Birch 2 Government Street, Kittery 207-703-2294. theblackbirch.com...
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