
Freshman Orientation 2018
Join the Maine Brewer's Guild as they welcome the Class of 2018 New Maine Breweries. This year the class will be limited to 12 new breweries.
Purchase tickets: freshmen-orientation2018.eventbrite.com
Ticket price is $35.00 and includes entry, all samples, souvenir tasting glass, and some snacks to cleanse your palette!
2018 Participating Breweries:
Bath Brewing
Corner Point Brewing Co, LLC
Definitive Brewing Company
GFB Scottish Pub
Lost Valley Brewing Company
Moderation Brewing
Nuts & Bolts Brewing
Odd Alewives Farm Brewery
Steam Mill Brewing
The Pour Farm
Turning Page Farm
Waterville Brewing Co
Von Trapp Food Pairing with Pine State Distributors

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
Blind IPA Tasting

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!
OTTO at ISLAND DOG

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
Basecoat Brunch
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
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

Liquid Swords Menu and Bottles
We're celebrating Oxbow Beer's 2016 Liquid Swords release with Wu-Tang, dope ramen and more.
Cost: Pay as you go
BEER COCKTAIL AND TAP TAKE-OVER
Liquid Riot will be tapping a different rare keg and featuring a new beertail (beer cocktail) each day of Beer Week.
GLB Features Rising Tide Brewing!
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
Maine Craft Beer Specials
Join Bull Feeney's for 12 Maine draft beers for $4 from 11:30a-9p 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!
Dirigo Brewing Co. Tap Takeover
Dirigo Brewing Company will be taking over Bingas Stadium taps for this years Beer Week. $4, 16oz beers and $5, 20oz beers all day!
Cask and Cider Brunch

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.
Kings Head fts Maine Breweries
For Portland Beer Week, we'll be doing something that we've been wanting to do for quite a while - stocking all 35 of our draft lines with our favorite Maine Breweries! We've been working with a variety of breweries to run a week's worth of Maine drafts, including many special treats, one-offs, Barrel-aged, and sour beers from some of Maine's most awesome breweries.
Participating breweries include, but are not limited to: Barreled Souls, Banded Horn, Bissell Brothers, Austin St., Allagash, Dirigo Brewing, Maine Beer Company, Oxbow, Funky Bow, Gneiss, Mast Landing, and more.
There will be roughly 3 designated draft lines for each featured brewery, with beers changing daily.
Please come through and see the wonderful variety of beer that this great state is producing! Draft list will be updated all week on our website!
Liquid Swords 2016 Bottle Release
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
MAINE CRAFT BEER SPECIALS
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!
Bob Murphy Birthday Bash

It's Bob Murphy's Birthday at Nosh Kitchen Bar! Bob picks the the draft lineup and we enjoy the beer. Starts at 5 and ends when the beer is gone.
BEER: MBC - Piolet 8, Gneiss Barrell Aged - 2x, Banded Horn - Bob's your Uncle (oatmeal stout) and Luminaire, Bunker - Golddome, Bayou Teche (Aged oak with coffee & chili), Tilquin, 1809 Berlinerwiess, Laguinitas Fusion 32 and Dopple Sticky
COST: Pay as you go
Sunday Supper in the Park
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/

Rising Tide Tap Takeover @ Great Lost Bear
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
Beer Tasting
Join Shipyard for a beer tasting at Craft Beer Cellar. Meet one of our brewers, Ben Meisner.
Freshmen Orientation: Maine Brewers' Guild Class of 2015
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
Sonny's Beer Brunch
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
Liquid Riot Total Tap Takeover
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
Cooler Can Grab ALL Week!
ALL WEEK at The Dogfish Bar & Grille - Put your hand in the cooler and pick up a can of Shipyard Beer for $3. Check the bottom of your can to see if you're a winner. Win swag, gift certificates and more!
COST: Pay as you go
Dia De Los Muertos Day 1: Bueno Loco Brunch
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