Tag Archives: beer
Insider video features Skowhegan’s struggle and renaissance
Insider, an offshoot of Business Insider, published a video to their Facebook page on Monday featuring Skowhegan’s past struggle and renaissance. The video starts with Amber Lambke, the owner of a grist mill and seemingly the central figure of Skowhegan’s rebuild. Her grains have been used around the city, namely at Bigelow Brewing Company, which […]
It’s National Drink Beer Day. Here are the 10 best Maine brews
Maine Beer Company releases beer commemorating the North Woods Monument
Is Pumpkinhead Ale responsible for the pumpkin spice craze?
Pumpkin spice is becoming omnipresent. When the leaves start to turn, Shipyard Brewing Company releases Pumpkinhead Ale, only whipping up the pumpkin spice frenzy more. In the BDN Newsroom, we asked the question: “is Pumpkinhead responsible for the explosion of pumpkin spice?” The timeline checks out. Pumpkinhead was first brewed in 1996, while Starbucks developed […]
BuzzFeed: This is the ‘most popular’ bar in Maine
Where Mainers go for sustenance: Data analysts compare numbers of bars, grocery stores
Map-making and number crunching website FlowingData dug up and updated a 2008 analysis by a previous group on the numbers of bars and grocery stores across the U.S. The exercise, apparently, was to gauge how people in different regions are gaining their sustenance, although it’s not immediately clear why they didn’t also include restaurants, gardens or […]
Statistician calculates best route for beer-tasting road trip. Here’s where it stops in Maine.
Dr. Nathan Yau put his grasp of mathematics to good use for the website Flowing Data when he determined the most efficient route for taking a beer-tasting road trip around the continental U.S. Yau took RateBeer’s list of the world’s top 100 breweries, pulled the 70 that have home bases to visit in the 48 […]
Maine’s beer scene is even better than we thought, according to Fortune magazine
A story posted online Sunday by Fortune magazine begins like this: “If you’re looking for a good beer, you might want to head to Maine. Breweries from that state had a remarkably strong showing at the Great American Beer Festival Awards, winning medals in 21 percent of the categories local brewers entered — the most […]