Join Jäger as they welcome Pine State Distributors & von Trapp Brewery for German inspired Small Plate Food Pairing event.

Kick off Portland Beer Week with a specialty menu from Chef Garret inspired by the beers from von Trapp brewing located in Stowe, VT

von Trapp menu:

• Pilsner- Pretzel with beer cheese
• Helles- Spatzle with brown butter
• Vienna- Bratwurst with Jager-caramelized onions
• Dunkel- jagerschnitzel

Cost: Pay as you go

Kicking off the week with a Blind IPA Tasting at The Thirsty Pig. A flight of 10, 5oz samples served with a palate cleanser. Your ballot will have the name of all 10 beers and you have to let your tastebuds decide which one is which. No one has ever gotten all 10!

An OTTO pop up at Island Dog Brewing Co.. OTTO will serve several special and classic menu options to pair perfectly with Island Dog Beers. 

Specials Include:

• Reuben Pizza: Pastrami, Sour Kraut, 4,000 Island Dressing
• Corn Dog Pizza: Hot Dogs and Corn Bread
• Steak and Cheese Pizza: Steak, Caramelized Onions, Cherry Peppers

Cost: Pay as you go

Portland Beer Week is a marathon, not a sprint, and we all know going in cold is a recipe for disaster. Instead you have to properly prepare, stretch, and train your body, mind, and spirit for the week of festivities to come.

To help lay that groundwork, Mast Landing Brewing Company and Foundation Brewing Company, in partnership with our friends at Sonny's Portland, invite you kick off Portland Beer Week with our Basecoat Brunch.

3 beers from each brewery, selected to pair with Sonny's famous brunch menu, will be sure to have you get off to a great start. Please join us, and get the jump on finding your groove!

FOUNDATION BEERS: 
Riverton flyer pilsner
Coffee Burnside Brown
Epiphany DIPA

MAST LANDING BEERS:
Green to green ipa
Tell tale double dry hopped apa
Gunner's daughter peanut butter chocolate stout

Cost: Pay as you Go

Lone Pine Brewing Tap Takeover at The Great Lost Bear featuring Portland Pale Ale, Brightside, Oh-J and Tessellation. $4.99 Tulips

Have no fear it's Patriot's bye week! Meet the brewers and take home some swag, 5-7PM.

Pay as you go

Please visit often as we continue to add events for PBW 2017!

We're celebrating Oxbow Beer's 2016 Liquid Swords release with Wu-Tang, dope ramen and more. 

Cost: Pay as you go

The Great Lost Bear will be featuring a nice variety of Rising Tide Beers PLUS Experimental HOPS WITH NO NAMES: 3 Pilot Batches of Ales each brewed with different experimental hops.

Cost: Pay as you go

Dirigo Brewing Company will be taking over Bingas Stadium taps for this years Beer Week. $4, 16oz beers and $5, 20oz beers all day!

The Thirsty Pig is kicking off the 5th Annual Portland Beer Week with brunch! Tasty brunch options will be paired with cider and brews on cask!

Tap List: 

• Urban Farm Fermentory Sweet Fern
• Ricker's Hard Cider Mainiac Apple Pie
• Shacksbury Arlo
• Citizen Cider B-Cider
• Bantam Cider Smoked Saison and Americain
• Lost Orchard Brewing/Crooked Halo Cider House - Dantes Inferno
• Stoneface Cask IPA, excessively hopped with blanc, amarillo, and mosiac hops

Brunch menu: CLICK HERE!
 

Cost: Pay as you go.

Join Oxbow Beer for their 2016 release of Liquid Swords, a tart dry barrel-aged biere de garde composed of a blend of our finest barrels. Bottles drop at 11am. 

Cost: Pay as you go

12 Maine draft beers for $4 from 11:30a-9p at Bull Feeney's during Portland Beer Week, including beers from Allagash (White and rotating specialty), Rising Tide, Bissell Brothers, Lone Pine, Foundation, Geary's, Shipyard, Austin Street, Baxter, Funky Bow, Gneiss, Dirigo, and Atlantic!

This will be a ticketed event. 

The breweries of Industrial Way are throwing down a progressive beer dinner! Allagash, Foundation, Austin St and Bissell Brothers will be pairing up with local chefs and food trucks to create the ultimate four course dinner and beer pairing. Proceeds of the evening will be given to the Locker Project in Portland.

BEER: Allagash House Beer and Avance, Austin Milk Stout Street, Foundation 2014 Dark Side Corruption and Bissell Brothers Swish

COST: $50

LINK: https://fareharbor.com/allagash/items/11120/

The Great Lost Bear is kicking off Beer Week with a tap takeover!  Special prices on Rising Tide from 5-9.

BEER: Zephyr, Waypoint American Porter, Calcutta Cutter Imperial Pale Ale And From The Entrepot Series [D'automne] American Warehouse Ale

COST: Pay as you go

Join Shipyard for a beer tasting at Craft Beer Cellar. Meet one of our brewers, Ben Meisner.

This will be a ticketed event. Stay tuned for complete details and ticket info.

Try a beer from every new brewery in the state. Maine's newest breweries, all in one place, all at one time. Join the Maine Brewers' Guild in welcoming the Class of 2015 to the Maine beer community - you're guaranteed a beer sample from every new brewery in the state and will meet all the brewers in this fun, round-the-world format event.

BEER: Participating Breweries: Blank Canvas Brewery (Brewer, ME) | Lubec Brewery (Lubec, ME) | Marsh Island (Orono, ME) | Square Tail Brewing Co. (Amherst, ME) | Orono Brewing (Orono, ME) | Theory Brewing Co. (Wells, ME)

COST: $25,

LINK: http://ow.ly/TfRd6  

Beer Brunch at Sonny's featuring Oxbow, Bunker Brewing and Rising Tide. Live old school country music by BIG ASS ROOSTER

BEER: Oxbow, Bunker and Rising Tide

COST: Pay as you go

It's a Liquid Riot tap takeover with one-offs, special releases, barrel-aged and funky beers. Football will be on the jumbotron all day. Open at noon.

BEER: Liquid Riot Melifera with Brett, Heart of Glass blended with Walter Witt, Barrel Aged Primus X, Valley Girl, Walter Witt, Barrel Aged Obscurity, Elderberry Brett Triple and Raspberry Sour Trouble 

Plus 6 more kegs to be thrown throughout the day so make sure to come on down and check it out! 

COST: Pay as you go

Start your beer week with brunch AND celebrate Dia De Los Muertos at Bueno Loco!

Day 1 is a BL Brunch featuring beer specials, blood orange margaritas and a bloody marys, with a special brunch menu.

BEER: Mexican Beers, Micheladas

COST: Pay as you go

This will be a ticketed event. 

Pick up and Drop Off Location:

Craft Beer Cellar, 111 Commercial St, Portland, ME 04101 - Please arrive by 10:45am to ensure a timely departure. 

**Alternate Pick Up (10:30am) and Drop Off (1:45pm) Location: Parking lot across from Coffee By Design, 1 Diamond St, Portland, ME 04101

Travel through time with The Maine Brew Bus to learn about the early days and how the business of beer has evolved in the birthplace of Prohibition.

Join Josh Christie, the author of Maine Beer: Brewing in Vacationland as we hop aboard Lenny the Bus and travel around Portland talking about the history of beer brewing in the city.

We will visit notable landmarks including the numerous former brewery sites, the Workingmen's Club, the Portland Observatory, Alice Greele's tavern site, City Hall, and of course the Neal Dow house.

Special pours of landmark Portland beers will be offered as part of the journey.

COST: $30

LINK:  https://fareharbor.com/themainebrewbus/items/11380

Crawl between The Thirsty Pig and Maps for a sweet and savory brunch. Bloody Mary sausage and sausage hash.

Followed by Maps for a Spiced Burnside Caramel Cake and a Mimosa Cake, paired with Foundation Brewing Company Epiphany, Burnside, and a specially brewed Sour Cherry Saison on oak (only available at MAPS).  

MAPS will also be selling very limited edition, hand pulled screen prints of Epiphany.

The Maine Tinker Photography by Siobhan Bogle will be parked out back in the Maine Photo Camper!!! Bring your leftover Halloween Props for an unforgettable #207beerweek photo!

BEER: 

The Thirsty Pig

Sam Adams Kosmic Mother Funk (KMF) Grand Cru
Northcoast Brewing Old Rasputin on Nitro 
SoMe Brewing Company Nubble-Weiss
Somerville Brewing - Slumbrew Porter-Square
21st Amendment Brewery Toaster Pastry
Maine Beer Company Titus
Southern Tier Brewing Company Warlock

MAPS

Foundation Epiphany, Burnside and Specially Crafted Sour Cherry Saison on Oak

COST: Pay as you go

This will be a ticketed event. 

Pickup and drop off will take place at the Park and Ride on Marginal Way.  Should you be planning on going to Freshmen Orientation at Coffee By Design, we’ll drop you off out front!

Maine Beer Tours is going to give you the entire rundown on the evolution of beer, from the ingredients you pick up at the homebrew supply store, to chatting with and sampling from a professional brewer, and everything in between. 

BEER: Maine Brewing Supply, Fore River Brewing Company, Austin Street Brewery

COST: $45

LINK: http://www.mainebeertours.com/tours/evolution-of-beer/