Maine

From our Love Handles files on beer bars we love: Near the harbor, this locus of Maine’s bustling brewing scene specializes in a variety of sausages paired with local beers.

In Portland, Maine, the brewers at Lone Pine find that tiny tweaks to their IPAs yield big-time payoffs.

Our country’s signature flavor profile was not born in Burton, but in the hop fields of Oregon.

Today’s brewing world is baroque in its embrace of excess, but for Bissell Brothers of Portland, Maine, the not-so-secret strategy is a deep desire to perfect their existing beers rather than create a stream of new ones.

That city in Oregon isn't the only Portland worthy of a beercation. The one in Maine is flourishing, mixing American classics with scrappy, inventive upstarts, more hazies, and a multitude of styles.

Perkins shares lessons learned over two decades of work at Allagash, from building haze stability in witbier to fermenting with Brettanomyces and spontaneous fermentation

Maine Beer Company has developed a reputation for expressively hoppy beers, so it’s no surprise that half of Cofounder Dan Kleban’s 6-pack is lupulin-focused. But his love for Belgian-style funk, flavor, and character fills out the rest.