Discover the Breweries in Maine for Unique & Flavorful Brews

Founded by David and Karen Geary in 1983, D.L. Geary Brewing Co. was one of the first new microbreweries during America’s late 20th-century brewing renaissance and is still one of Portland’s most popular spots for tasting excellent brews. The granddaddy of Maine breweries recently opened a tasting room offering a rotating selection of its English-style beers in both five-ounce, and 10-ounce pours, along with a one-barrel pilot system that has been rolling out experiments. The brewery’s top ale is the signature Geary’s Pale Ale, which has a clear burnt-gold coloring, a thick, long-lasting head, and the scent of clean, flowery English hops with a classic English pale ale flavor. D. L. Geary Brewing Company is open Monday through Saturday during the summer with brewery tours available every day.

38 Evergreen Drive, Portland, ME 04103, Phone: 207-878-2337

Bissell Brothers Brewing Company is a new-age brewery with polished concrete floors, soaring ceilings, rustic garage doors that open onto a patio, and colorful cans and graphics showcasing as art pieces as much as advertisements. Housed in an industrial space in a development called Thompson’s Point, Bissell Brothers Brewing Company was established in 2013 by brothers Peter and Noah and was an instant success with their flagship brew known as The Substance Ale. The five-hop, orange-y ale formed the foundation for the kind of pillowy-soft blends Bissell still likes to make and is still made weekly, such as the Sigil 3, Nothing Gold, Baby Genius, Lux, and Bucolia. The tasting room is open Wednesday through Sunday and offers a menu of light snacks to accompany the tastings.

4 Thompsons Point, Portland, ME 04102, Phone: 207-808-8258

Allagash Brewing Company is a Belgian-style brewery in Portland that produces a rotating selection of limited edition German and British style beers brews. Founded in 1995 by Rob Tod, the small, 15-barrel brewery produces a variety of bottle-conditioned, double fermented ales with hints of Curaçao orange peel, coriander, wheat, barley, and other spices. Signature brews include Black - a Belgian-style stout; House - brewed in the style of a traditional of Belgian house; Saison – a Belgian farmhouse-style ale; Dubbel – a Belgian-style Dubbel; Tripel -a Belgian-style Tripel; White – a Belgian-style wheat beer; and CURIEUX - Belgian Tripel aged in bourbon barrels for seven weeks. The brewery is open for tastings in the retail store every day where visitors can sample three-ounce pours of four different beers for free.

50 Industrial Way, Portland, ME 04103, Phone: 207-878-5385

Rising Tide Brewing Company is a family-owned artisanal craft brewery located in Portland offering a variety of beers and brews in an airy tasting room, which also hosts live music, food trucks, and guided brewery tours. The brewery specializes in handcrafted ales brewed in small batches and produces four to eight beers of diverse styles of beer, including small-batch brews from the Seven Barrel and Entrepot ("warehouse") series, and year-round brews like Daymark American pale ale. The newly expanded tasting room features an outdoor patio for warm weather tasting a food truck in the parking lot. The tasting room is open from Monday through Sunday and beers are available in cans and on draft, as well as at select locations in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

103 Fox Street, Portland, ME 04101, Phone: 207-370-2337

Established in 2015, Airline Brewing Company - Amherst, formerly known as Square Tail, is focused on but not limited to British styles of beer with the apt slogan, "Peace, Trout, and Milk Stout." Located in a retired furniture mill that was once a thriving furniture company in Amherst, Airline Brewing Company boasts refurbished woodworking machinery from the late 1800s at which visitors sit while tasting the brewery’s handcrafted brews such as Lazy Paddle Milk Stout, Mooned Loon Pale Ale, and Fiddlehead ESB. Airline Brewing Company’s tasting room is open Thursday through Sunday.

22 Mill Lane, Amherst, ME 04605, Phone: 207-584-2337

Nestled in an enchanted forest amongst rolling farmlands and winding tidal rivers, Oxbow Blending & Bottling is a small farmhouse brewery located in rural Newcastle, Maine that produces a range of craft beers inspired by the spectacular natural beauty that surrounds the brewery. Named for the local winding tidal rivers, Oxbow Blending & Bottling features an expansive tasting room that offers a friendly picnic table service for draft and bottle samples of the brewery's funky farmhouse ales, which include Space Cowboy, Bowie, Black Light, Loretta, and the signature Farmhouse Pale Ale. The tasting room is open Monday through Sunday and beers are available in 5-, 8-, and 12-ounce pours, as well as bottles to go.

49 Washington Avenue, Portland, ME 04101, Phone: 207-315-5962

Atlantic Brewing Company is a microbrewery in Bar Harbor that produces a range of classic, seasonal and small batch series of brews, along with daily tours of the facility and tastings for visitors. Built on the grounds of a 19th-century Maine farmstead in Town Hill located minutes from downtown Bar Harbor that features local stonework and beautiful grounds full of native vegetation, the Atlantic Brewing Company has a tasting room that is open daily from late May to mid-October with tours offered every day in season. Visitors can learn all about the brewery’s small-scale beer production and sample some of the brews produced on sites, such as Bar Harbor Summer Ale, Leaf-Peeping Ale, New Guy IPA, Coal Porter, Island Ginger, and Blueberry Ale.

15 Knox Rd, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, Phone: 207-288-2337

Austin Street Brewery is a nano-brewery at 1 Industrial Way that began as a home brewing hobby and quickly grew from a casual day off activity to an obsession. Brews are fermented in a 10bbl system with an emphasis on hops, and signature beers include Rally, Offset, Neverender Patina Pale, Florens, Senescent, Half Light and Moses, to name but a few. Austin Street Brewery beers can be found on draft all around southern Maine, as well as the added bottle, and the tasting room is open for visitors to come and enjoy samples of the products.

Banded Horn Brewing Company is a small, locally owned and operated the facility with a brewery and tasting room on site that is open to the public. Open Monday through Sunday; the taproom offers a variety of samples of the brewery’s best tipple, including year-round brews such as Pepperell Pilsener and Veridian IPA, and a rotating selection of seasonal and limited-edition offerings such as the smoked German-style Rauchbier. The tasting room also serves light fare to accompany the brews such as grilled cheese sandwiches, pretzel bites, and homemade pies and sells growlers and bottles of beer to go. Thursday nights host live DJs spinning decks and other entertainment.

13-W, 32 Main St, Biddeford, ME 04005, Phone: 207-602-1561

Based in a basement speakeasy-like space, Barreled Souls Brewing Co. is a young brewery that produces a wide variety of small-batch beers which are brewed on a small, now-uncommon Burton Union System. Owned and operated by Chris Schofield and Matthew Mills, Barreled Souls Brewing Co. uses the now different fermentation system, which enables the beers to be brewed in 100% oak barrel-fermented instead of produced in stainless steel vessels, giving them a distinct flavor and taste. Signature beers include Half Shilling Scottish Ale, Celestial Person, Cantaloupe Island Sour – Gose, Silver Hawks IPA - Session / India Session Ale, The Authenticity Ship Has Sailed Sour – Gose, Blue Raspberry Gose brewed with Proclamation Ale Co, Alisson's Family Jeans IPA - Session / India Session Ale, and Quaker Stout – Oatmeal. The brewery tasting room carries 12 varieties on draft in small and large pours, as well as 32-ounce growlers to go.

743 Portland Rd, Saco, ME 04072, Phone: 207-391-3320