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Portland beer = good stuff
BY LISA CRAIG
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This little nook of New England is foaming with ales, stouts, and porters galore. Us locals know boozehounds don’t have to go far to sniff out a good guzzle in Portland, it comes out of its pours. Still, it’s good to see the country at large getting a view of our big pitcher. August’s issue of Stuff Magazine gives the Tree City a big sip, drafting three of Portland’s own microbrews in its list of the top 80 beers made in the USA. Number 25: Geary’s Pale Ale; Number 29: Gritty McDuff’s Original Pub Style; and number 68: Allagash Grand Cru (from a brewery in Allagash which celebrates their 10th anniversary this year). Strangely absent, we’d say, would be Shipyard, especially their Old Thumper Extra Special Ale. Maybe the citizens of California have said more than Stuff ever could. Shipyard just launched statewide distribution in Cali, using Wine Warehouse, which was apparently impressed with recent critical success. Shipyard’s Old Thumper took home Best in Show at the Los Angeles County Fair, and took home first place " in the English Pale Ale category at both the California and West Coast Brewers Festivals, " or so says a recent press release from the brewery.
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