The Business section in today’s Press Herald features a report titled “Maine’s craft beer boom shows no sign of going flat“.
When it opens, Fore River will be the newest player in Maine’s exploding and intensely local craft beer scene. As of 2014, the state had the sixth-most breweries per capita in the nation, according to the Brewers Association, a national group. In 2013 and 2014, nine new breweries and brewpubs opened in greater Portland alone. There are currently 52 breweries in the state, but that number is set to jump even higher in 2016, and existing breweries are expanding.
The article includes details on Fore River Brewing(twitter, facebook, instagram) which is opening later this year in South Portland.