Year Recap and Top Sellers of 2021 January 26 2022, 0 Comments

 Another pandemic year has come and gone, and we are still here happily providing your favorite craft drinks. 2021 has been all about adapting to challenges, and Bier Cellar underwent our biggest change yet as we enter the new year, rounding into our 10th year in business…

New Year, New Owners!

The start of December Bier Cellar owner and local legend, Greg Norton, stepped away, selling the company to two of his entrepreneurial employees, Justin and Don. The legacy that Bier Cellar holds is monumental, Don and Justin couldn't be happier to carry on Greg’s original dream born in the Summer of 2012. We look forward to meeting you all, long time customers and new. Please feel free to stop by either store, Portland or Gorham, and pull us aside for a chat!

All things considered, we are striving to plan a community celebration of Bier Cellar’s 10th Anniversary. A lot of factors are going into these decisions, and we truly want to be able to celebrate with the community. Currently, our ideas for the celebration are to host an event in June full of tastings, giveaways, special bottle releases, and possibly even catering or food trucks. We'll keep you all updated as things start to come together in the coming months. 

Thank you all for your continued support, especially during these difficult pandemic times, we wouldn't be around if it wasn't for all of you! 

-Justin and Don

Now onto the top 10 best sellers of 2021! We had some usual top finishers, with a couple surprises this year. We saw a brand new Portland brewery sneak into the top 10, narrowly beating the juggernaut that is Allagash White. Another list mainstay was dropped out, while the top 3 remained the same from 2020.

Here's the top 10 of 2021:

1. Bissell Substance
2. Battery Steele Flume
3. Bissell Reciprocal 
4. Maine Beer Company Lunch
5. Battery Steele Flume Squared
6. Orono Tubular
7. Austin Street Patina
8. Goodfire Prime
9. Bissell Baby Genius 
10. Belleflower Scrugsy

And Previous year's lists to compare:

2020

2019

2018

2017

Top Sellers of 2020 January 04 2021, 0 Comments

As the New Year rolls around it's natural to reflect on what transpired in the previous year.  As we enter our 9th year of business, posting our Top 10 Best Sellers of the previous year has become a tradition.  2020 was a challenging year for everyone, and the craft beer industry felt it acutely.  We thank you wholeheartedly for your support while we pivoted to mostly curbside during the opening days of the pandemic and have worked out hardest to keep our staff and customers safe throughout 2020.  All of these numbers are including keg sales and are combined between our two stores, they are dollar sales, not quantities.

1. Bissell Brothers The Substance

2. Battery Steele Flume

3. Bissell Brothers Reciprocal

4. Orono Tubular

5. Foundation Epiphany

6. Austin Street Patina Pale

7. Maine Beer Company Lunch

8. Battery Steele Flume Squared

9. Goodfire Prime 

10. Burlington Beer It's Complicated Being A Wizard

For comparisons sake, here are past lists:

2019

1. Bissell Brothers The Substance

2. Battery Steele Flume

3. Foundation Epiphany

4. Austin Street Patina Pale

5. Orono Tubular

6. 3 Fonteinen Cuvee Armand & Gaston

7. Lone Pine Oh J

8. Allagash White

9. 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

10. Definitive Ale

2018

1. Battery Steele Flume

2. Bissell Brothers The Substance

3. Foundation Epiphany

4. Maine Beer Lunch

5. Austin Street Patina Pale

6. Mast Landing/Bier Cellar Shorts Weather

7. Goodfire Prime

8. Lawson's Sip of Sunshine IPA

9. Mast Landing DDH Tell Tale

10. Definitive Ale

2017

1. Lawson's Sip of Sunshine

2. Battery Steele Flume

3. Foundation Epiphany

4. Bissell Brothers The Substance 

5. Rising Tide MITA

6. Liquid Riot A Beer Has No Name

7. Foundation Afterglow

8. Mast Landing Dash IPA

9. Mast Landing DDH Tell Tale Pale

10. Austin Street Patina Pale Ale

2016

1. Rising Tide Maine Island Trail Ale

2. Liquid Riot Headstash IPA

3. Bissell Brothers The Substance

4. Foundation Epiphany

5. Foundation Afterglow

6. Banded Horn Daikaiju

7. Bunker Brewing Cypher

8. Lord Hobo Boom Sauce

9. SoMe Apostrophe

10. Liquid Riot Kash Money IPA

2015

1. Bissell Brothers Substance

2. Rising Tide Maine Island Trail Ale

3.  Foundation Epiphany

4. Lord Hobo Boom Sauce

5.  Ballast Point Sculpin

6. Bissell Brothers Swish

7. Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin

8.  Banded Horn Veridian

9.  Maine Beer Company Lunch

10.  Bissell Brothers Bucolia

2014

1. Bissell Brothers The Substance

2. Rising Tide Maine Island Trail Ale

3. Lagunitas Sucks

4. Marshall Wharf Cant Dog

5. Maine Beer Company Lunch

6. Founders All Day IPA

7. Lagunitas Little Sumpin Sumpin

8. Stone Enjoy By IPA

9. Rising Tide Calcutta Cutter

10. Bissell Brothers Bucolia

2021 Bier Cellar Advent Boxes October 30 2020, 0 Comments

This year we have decided to continue our tradition of offering our Bier Cellar Advent Calendars.  These have been a huge hit the past couple years, so we have upped the number we are selling this year to 50, once those sell out, that will be all.  This year we are a little more on the ball and will be selling them throughout November so customer have plenty of time to pick them up before they begin on December 1st.  We will have the boxes built and ready for pickup on November 28th so they will be fresh, but if you want/need to pick yours up earlier, please let us know and we can accomodate. We will also be selling the boxes and the stickers for $12 if you just want to buy it and pick out the beers yourselves.

We will be putting these together right up to the last day of November, but we do have a limited amount of the boxes, so when they are all sold we are done for the year.  We will have four different options, a base configuration for $120, an IPA specific box for $135, a stout/dark beer option for $135 and a sour/wild beer option for $150.  All of the boxes share the same 12 base beers with a different second 12 beers based on which box you pick. All of these are the shelf prices of the beer with the box thrown in for free and the beers are all stickered for which day of the advent they should be opened.

Just a note, as with all beer purchases using our website, these cannot be shipped and must be picked up at one of our stores (you can choose which store when checking out).  Our checkout process does ask for a shipping address, you can just use your billing address for both the billing address and shipping address.

Due to rotating product availability and freshness, we due not have a list of what beers will be in the packages yet.  We have provided the 2020 boxes as a guide to what was included last year just to give a scope of how they were constructed.  As we get to mid November and start building the boxes we will publish the list of this year's beers.

The 12 base beers for 2020 were:

Dancing Gnome Aveum (Blonde)

Bunker Trashmaster (Stout)

De Dolle Arabier (Belgian Blonde)

Sun King GFJ (IPA)

Lawsons Sip of Sunshine (IPA)

St Bernardus Christmas (Belgian Christmas)

Paulaner Pilsner

Austin Street Six Grain (Stout)

Other Half Superfun (IPA)

Black Hog Leaves A Mark (Stout)

Schilling Landbier (Lager)

Allagash Starling Wit (Witbier)

The base configuration of the 2020 Bier Cellar Advent Calendar featured the following 12 beers in addition to the base beers above.  If you wish to order this box, you can follow this link.  These boxes are $120.

Oxbow Luppolo (Pilsner)

Finback Carbon Copy (IPA)

Sebago Slick Nick

Burlington Orbital Elevator (IPA)

Duchesse Petit Sour (Flanders Red)

Battery Steele Looming Illusion (Sour)

Orono Golden Era (IPA)

Banded Thicket (Barleywine)

Schilling Poppy's Moonship (Sour)

Blaze Dusk (Stout)

Sierra Nevada Celebration (IPA)

Sebago Barleywine (Barleywine)

The IPA Specific box in 2020 featured the following 12 beers in addition to the base beers listed above.  This box is $135 and if you wish to order this box, you can follow this link:

Finback Carbon Copy

Other Half Roc Showers

Goodfire Prime

Bissell Lux

Battery Steele Vagabond Dreamer

Orono Golden Era

Schilling Poppy's Moonship

Burlington Orbital Elevator

De Dolle XL

Definitive Distant Gardens

Mast Landing Biff

The Sour/Wild Specific box featured the following 12 beers in addition to the base beers listed above.  This box is $150 and if you wish to order this box, you can follow this link:

Orono Fruit Pie

Lone Pine Sparkler

Barreled Souls Pogs & Slammers

Finback Sitrus Gose

Girardin Gueze

Orono Everlasting Farm

Hanssens Oudbeitje

Schilling Poppy's Moonship

Dupont Avec Les Bons Voeux

Oxbow Surf Casting

Hermit Thrush Party Jam

The Stout/Porter box featured the following 12 beers in addition to the base beers listed above.  This box is $135 and if you wish to order this box, you can follow this link:

Finback Carbon Copy

Oxbow Luppolo

Burlington Orbital Elevator

Ridgeway Imperial Stout

De Molen Hel & Verdoemenis

Blaze Dusk

Pohjala Oo Pime

Allagash Black is Beautiful

Lone Pine World's Best Boss

Founders KBS Mackinac

Prairie Christmas Bomb

Top Sellers of 2019 January 02 2020, 0 Comments

As the New Year rolls around it's natural to reflect on what transpired in the previous year.  As we enter our 8th year of business, posting our Top 10 Best Sellers of the previous year has become a tradition.  2019 was a fascinating, exciting, frustrating, confusing year of tremendous growth for craft beer.  It was exciting to see a few non IPA's crack the Top 10 this year (although the style still took up most of the top spots).  As always we want to thank all of you for your support in 2019 and hope you will continue to visit us in 2020.  All of these numbers are including keg sales and are combined between our two stores, they are dollar sales, not quantities.  For a snapshot of quantities, we sold over 40,000 4 Packs of cans this year and over 620 kegs thanks to all of you.  Without further ado, here's our top 10:

1. Bissell Brothers The Substance

2. Battery Steele Flume

3. Foundation Epiphany

4. Austin Street Patina Pale

5. Orono Tubular

6. 3 Fonteinen Cuvee Armand & Gaston

7. Lone Pine Oh J

8. Allagash White

9. 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

10. Definitive Ale

For a reminder and comparison purposes, here are some past lists:

2018

1. Battery Steele Flume

2. Bissell Brothers The Substance

3. Foundation Epiphany

4. Maine Beer Lunch

5. Austin Street Patina Pale

6. Mast Landing/Bier Cellar Shorts Weather

7. Goodfire Prime

8. Lawson's Sip of Sunshine IPA

9. Mast Landing DDH Tell Tale

10. Definitive Ale

2017

1. Lawson's Sip of Sunshine

2. Battery Steele Flume

3. Foundation Epiphany

4. Bissell Brothers The Substance 

5. Rising Tide MITA

6. Liquid Riot A Beer Has No Name

7. Foundation Afterglow

8. Mast Landing Dash IPA

9. Mast Landing DDH Tell Tale Pale

10. Austin Street Patina Pale Ale

2016

1. Rising Tide Maine Island Trail Ale

2. Liquid Riot Headstash IPA

3. Bissell Brothers The Substance

4. Foundation Epiphany

5. Foundation Afterglow

6. Banded Horn Daikaiju

7. Bunker Brewing Cypher

8. Lord Hobo Boom Sauce

9. SoMe Apostrophe

10. Liquid Riot Kash Money IPA

2015

1. Bissell Brothers Substance

2. Rising Tide Maine Island Trail Ale

3.  Foundation Epiphany

4. Lord Hobo Boom Sauce

5.  Ballast Point Sculpin

6. Bissell Brothers Swish

7. Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin

8.  Banded Horn Veridian

9.  Maine Beer Company Lunch

10.  Bissell Brothers Bucolia

2014

1. Bissell Brothers The Substance

2. Rising Tide Maine Island Trail Ale

3. Lagunitas Sucks

4. Marshall Wharf Cant Dog

5. Maine Beer Company Lunch

6. Founders All Day IPA

7. Lagunitas Little Sumpin Sumpin

8. Stone Enjoy By IPA

9. Rising Tide Calcutta Cutter

10. Bissell Brothers Bucolia

2019 Bier Cellar Advent Calendars October 22 2019, 0 Comments

Last year we introduced our Bier Cellar Advent Calendars and they were a huge hit, selling out in just a few days.  So this year we are a little more on the ball and will be selling them throughout November so customer have plenty of time to pick them up before they begin on December 1st.  We will have the boxes built and ready for pickup on November 22nd so they will be fresh, but if you want/need to pick yours up earlier, please let us know and we can accomodate. We will also be selling the boxes and the stickers for $12 if you just want to buy it and pick out the beers yourselves.

We will be putting these together right up to the last day of November, but we do have a limited amount of the boxes, so when they are all sold we are done for the year.  We will have four different options, a base configuration for $110, an IPA specific box for $130, a stout/dark beer option for $130 and a sour/wild beer option for $150.  All of the boxes share the same 12 base beers with a different second 12 beers based on which box you pick. All of these are the shelf prices of the beer with the box thrown in for free and the beers are all stickered for which day of the advent they should be opened.

Just a note, as with all beer purchases using our website, these cannot be shipped and must be picked up at one of our stores (you can choose which store when checking out).  Our checkout process does ask for a shipping address, you can just use your billing address for both the billing address and shipping address.

Due to rotating product availability and freshness, we due not have a list of what beers will be in the packages yet.  We have provided the 2018 boxes as a guide to what was included last year just to give a scope of how they were constructed.  As we get to mid November and start building the boxes we will publish the list of this year's beers.

The 12 base beers for 2019 are:

Bissell Brothers The Substance (IPA)

Definitive Contee Kolsch (Kolsch)

Duclaw Sweet Baby Jesus (Porter)

Blaugies/Hill Farmstead La Vermontoise (Saison)

Bunker Libbytown Brown (Brown Ale)

Saco River Double Deckah (ESB)

Sierra Nevada Celebration (IPA)

Brewery Extrava Single (Belgian Table Beer)

Foundation Hansel (Helles)

Foulmouthed Horse Of A Different Color (Red Ale)

Mast Landing Inglenook (Stout)

Austin Street Patina Pale (Pale Ale)

The base configuration of the 2019 Bier Cellar Advent Calendar features the following 12 beers in addition to the base beers above.  If you wish to order this box, you can follow this link.

Surly Todd The Axeman (IPA)

Off Color Very Very Far (Belgian style Blonde)

Sierra Nevada Wet Hop Harvest (IPA)

Bissell Brothers Red Cuppin It (Pale Ale)

Austin Street Marquee Moon (Pale Ale)

Moderation Brewing As Lime Gose By (Gose)

Allagash Truepenny (Pilsner)

Orono Brewing Hazelnut Coffee Elwood Brown (Brown Ale)

Oxbow Farmhouse Pale Ale (Saison)

Lone Pine Onesie (IPA)

Battery Steele Endless Ride (Lemon & Blueberry)

Struise Barrel Aged Rio Reserva (Quad)

The IPA Specific box features the following 12 beers in addition to the base beers listed above.  This box is $135 and if you wish to order this box, you can follow this link:

Four Quarters Spectra (Double IPA)

Definitive Fallstreak (IPA)

Battery Steele Firn (Pale Ale)

Hoof Hearted 1-800-DoubleDouble-XtraXtra-FrootieFrootie-BiggieBiggie-JuicyJuicy (Triple IPA)

Orono Tiger Style (IPA)

Marsh Island Number of the Beast (IPA)

Finback Dematerialize (IPA)

Foreign Objects Mars In Scorpio (IPA)

Foundation Epiphany (Double IPA)

Mast Landing On A Mountain In The Clouds (IPA)

Boothbay Craft Brewery Thirsty Botanist (IPA)

Lone Pine Oh J (Double IPA)

The Sour/Wild Specific box featured the following 12 beers in addition to the base beers listed above.  This box is $150 and if you wish to order this box, you can follow this link:

Hermit Thrush Rowdy Monk (Sour)

Duchess de Bourgogne (Flanders Red)

Battery Steele Endless Ride (Kettle Sour)

Discord Beer Co Canadian Front Bumper (Sour IPA)

Barreled Souls Space Gose (Gose)

Hermit Thrust Party Guy (Kettle Sour)

Slaapmutske Flemish Kriek (Kriek)

Hanssens Oude Geuze (Geuze)

Boon Oude Schaarbeekse Kriek (Kriek)

De Leite Cuvee Jeune Homme 

Verzet Oud Bruin (Oud Bruin)

Plan Bee Bluff 

The Stout/Porter box featured the following 12 beers in addition to the base beers listed above.  This box is $135 and if you wish to order this box, you can follow this link:

Bell's Expedition (Imperial Stout)

Orono 44 North (Coffee Milk Stout)

Lone Pine Chaga Stout (Stout)

Battery Steele St Alfonzos (Stout)

Untitled Art Hazelnut Stout (Stout)

Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout (Barrel Aged Stout)

Moderation Brewing Box Top Girls (Stout)

Fore River John Henry (Milk Stout)

Prairie Bomb/Consider Yourself Hugged (Imperial Stout)

Foundation Forge (Imperial Stout)

Bunker Breakfast Kings (Imperial Stout)

Austin Street Six Grain (Milk Stout)

Equilibrium Brewing Pop Up Can Sale May 23 2019, 0 Comments

2018 Year in Review & Top 10 Best Sellers January 09 2019, 0 Comments

2018 was a crazy and exciting year at Bier Cellar as we continued to grow by adding a second location in Gorham, Bier Cellar West.  The support we have gotten from the community both at the new location and at the original has been humbling.  We were honored by each of you that walked through our doors and allowed us to share some time with you this year.  

2018 also saw us get honored by Hop Culture Magazine as one of the Top 10 Bottle Shops In The United States, which was a testament to how hard our staff works to keep their knowledge at the top of their game.  Just stocking great products isn't enough, you have to know about those products to really be able to help your customers.  

We were told that we were crazy in 2012 to open by only selling craft beer and wine, we were told you have to stock Macro lagers from Bud, Miller and Coors and cheap wine, cigarettes and lottery tickets to make it.  Well, we haven't crossed any finish lines by a long shot, but almost 7 years in you guys have said you want a place that respects the beer and wine being made by the best producers in the world and eschewing all of the distractions.

One thing we like to do is take a look and share with you guys the best sellers each year.  We do this by dollar value, not by quantity.  We combine cans and kegs together for each beer, so some of the top 10 were carried largely by keg sales.  But without further ado, here are Bier Cellar's combined top 10 sellers for 2018:

1. Battery Steele Flume

2. Bissell Brothers The Substance

3. Foundation Epiphany

4. Maine Beer Lunch

5. Austin Street Patina Pale

6. Mast Landing/Bier Cellar Shorts Weather

7. Goodfire Prime

8. Lawson's Sip of Sunshine IPA

9. Mast Landing DDH Tell Tale

10. Definitive Ale

So there you have it, the beers you bought the most of at Bier Cellar in 2018.  Thanks for all of your support and we hope to get to see you in 2019.

2018 Bier Cellar Advent Calendars November 21 2018, 2 Comments

Over the years customers have asked us about the concept of an Advent Calendar for beer.  We toyed with the idea but never pulled the trigger.  This year more customers asked then ever, so we figured we should get off our butt and get it done.  So we have put together a few options for Advent Calendars.  We will also be selling the boxes and the stickers for $12 if you just want to buy it and pick out the beers yourselves.

We will be putting these together right up to the last day of November, but we do have a limited amount of the boxes, so when they are all sold we are done for the year.  We will have four different options, a base configuration for $110, an IPA specific box for $130, a stout/dark beer option for $130 and a sour/wild beer option for $150.  All of the boxes share the same 12 base beers with a different second 12 beers based on which box you pick. All of these are the shelf prices of the beer with the box thrown in for free and the beers are all stickered for which day of the advent they should be opened.

Just a note, as will all beer purchases using our website, these cannot be shipped and must be picked up at one of our stores (you can choose which store when checking out).  Our checkout process does ask for a shipping address, you can just use your billing address for both the billing address and shipping address.

The 12 base beers are:

Orono Tubular IPA (IPA)

Allagash Brett IPA (Wild Ale)

Allagash Pictavia (Barrel Aged Scotch Ale)

Banded Horn Jolly Woodsman (Coffee Stout)

Rising Tide Pineapple On Board (Session IPA)

Bells Expedition Stout (Imperial Stout)

Bells Christmas Ale (Scotch Ale)

Liquid Riot Tropical Storm (Kettle Sour)

Banded Horn Pepperell Pilsner (Pilsner)

Spencer Peach Saison (Fruited Saison)

North Coast Old Stock (Old Ale)

Sierra Nevada Celebration (IPA)

The base configuration 2018 Bier Cellar Advent Calendar feature the following 12 beers in addition to the base beers above.  If you wish to order this box, you can follow this link.

 Foundation Bedrock (Porter)

New Belgium Oakspire (Oak Aged Ale)

Definitive 35 (Session IPA)

Andechs Doppelbock (Doppelbock)

Stiegl Radler (Grapefruit Radler)

Smuttynose Chupa Stout (Mexican Spice Stout)

Definitive DDH Sensitive Ears (Pale Ale)

Liquid Riot Headstash (IPA)

Mahrs Ungespundet (Kellerbier)

Oskar Blues Ten Fidy (Imperial Stout)

Austin Street Patina (Pale Ale)

Bissell Brothers The Substance (Pale Ale)

The IPA Specific box will feature the following 12 beers in addition to the base beers listed above.  This box is $130 and if you wish to order this box, you can follow this link:

Mast Landing Saccarappa IPA

Definitive Ale

Liquid Riot 1911 Brut IPA

Single Cut Push Push Double IPA

Finback Something Amarillo IPA

Interboro Fulltime IPA

Orono Brewing Ozone

Bissell Brothers The Substance

Austin Street Patina Pale

Definitive Vanilla Dome 

Battery Steele Onsight #7

Evil Twin/Omnipollo Rainbownade

 The Sour/Wild Specific box will feature the following 12 beers in addition to the base beers listed above.  This box is $150 and if you wish to order this box, you can follow this link:

Boon Oude Kriek Mariage Parfait

Upland Iridescent

TRVE Buried Sun

Hanssens Oude Kriek

Liquid Riot Love & Happiness

Fore River Preble

De Leite Fils a Papa

Bahnhof Berliner Weiss

Almanac Foudre Punch

Grimm Living Daylights

Bunker Colourz: Mango

Orval

The Stout/Porter box will feature the following 12 beers in addition to the base beers listed above.  This box is $130 and if you wish to order this box, you can follow this link:

Alesmith Speedway Stout

Dieu du Ciel Peche Mortel

Evil Twin Aun Mas a Jesus

Austin Street Six Grain

Oskar Blues Ten Fidy

North Coast Old Rasputin

Left Hand Nitro Milk Stout

Allagash Black

Prairie Christmas Bomb

Dirigo Baltic Porter

Singlecut Heavy Boots of Lead

Norway Brewing Barrel Aged Grumpalumpagus

Bier Cellar West Grand Opening July 11 2018, 2 Comments

In late May we opened the doors on our second store, Bier Cellar West, in Gorham, Maine.  We've been so excited to meet new customers and neighbors, as well as see some old faces that now have a bit easier of a trek to one of our shops.  After about a month and a half, it's time to have a party.  Come join us Saturday, July 14th from 1-5pm at our new shop at 593 Main Street in Gorham.

To celebrate we decided to host our neighbors in the brewing community right here in Gorham and just over the border in Westbrook to come in and sample their beers for you.  We will host Lone Pine, Sebago and Mast Landing throughout the afternoon.  We have also invited National Distributors and Crush Distributors to bring in their best Summer wine lineup, because despite our name, we aren't just beer fans, we love wine, cider and mead just as much.

Our tasting schedule is set as:

Beer Tasting:

Lone Pine: 1-2pm

Sebago Brewing: 2-4pm

Mast Landing Brewing: 3-5pm

Wine Tasting: 

National Distributors: 1-3pm

Crush Distributors: 3-5pm

Bottle/Can Releases:

We will also have bottle and can releases throughout the day.  These will all be first come, first serve with per person limits set to try to spread them out a bit.  We are excited to see our first bottles from Cantillon and 3 Fonteinen in about a year.  Always an honor to have the two best producers of traditional Belgian Lambic in the world represented.  These bottles have become amazingly scarce in the 6 years we have been open and I have to believe this is the first time these breweries have had bottles available in Gorham.  We will also see some beers from Texas' Jester King, easily one of the best breweries in the county.  We have a collaboration to release from Maine's Allagash and Chicago's Off Color Brewing, a witbier produced with citrus fruit and wild yeast.  We have the only cases in the State of Decadent Delight, an imperial stout collaboration between Evil Twin and Decadent Ales with lots of tasty adjuncts.  We have a drop from Ohio's Hoof Hearted, easily one of the most sought after breweries in the country right now.  Finally, we have the only drop of Jonah from Mast Landing that we will see for the entire summer.  Here is the schedule of releases:

1pm: Cantillon Oude Gueuze, Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus, 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek, Jester King/Kernel Colonel Toby, Jester King Simple Means, Allagash/Off Color Ghost Lemons

2pm: Decadent Ales/Evil Twin Decadent Delight, Hoof Hearted South of Eleven, Hoof Hearted Max Profits

3pm: Mast Landing Jonah Double IPA

We will also have merchandise giveaways throughout the day.  We will have raffle tickets to enter those and you do not have to be present to win.  We will be giving away:

Bier Cellar Gift Cards

Bier Cellar Merch (Glasses, Shirts, Tank Tops, Bottle Openers)

Brewery Merch (Glasses, Shirts, Swag)

We hope to see some new and familiar faces to help us celebrate.  There is parking located all around our building, please respect our neighbors and park in lined spaces.  For those of you visiting for the first time, we are in a small strip mall right next door to Dunkin Donuts.  Please bring a valid ID if you wish to participate in the tastings.

Mast Landing & Bier Cellar Shorts Weather May 30 2018, 0 Comments

Going back to 2014 it has been a tradition to brew an anniversary beer with friends of ours at local breweries.  We did two rounds of Bier 2 Cellar with Austin Street Brewery in 2014 and 2015, we did Tropical Storm with Liquid Riot in 2016 and 2017 and now for 2018 we are releasing Shorts Weather IPA with our friends at Mast Landing.  This beer will celebrate the 6th Anniversary of Bier Cellar Portland and the opening of our new shop in Gorham, Bier Cellar West which opened its doors on May 25th.

We brewed Shorts Weather on May 11th at Mast Landing's brewery in Westbrook.  We had bounced around ideas for a beer for a few weeks, nailing down a style, then the fruit we would use for the beer.  This is a smoothie IPA, brewed with peaches and apricots as well as lactose.  The peaches and apricot bring stone fruit to the citrus and tropical fruit from the hops, and the lactose creates a smooth body and a touch of sweetness to balance out the hops.  A beautiful fruit bomb to welcome in Shorts Weather that lasts far too short here in Maine.  

We will be releasing Shorts Weather just hours after it comes off the canning line on Friday, June 1st.  We will have cans available at both our Portland and Gorham locations for opening at noon.  We are taking paid holds via our website, http://www.biercellar.com/products/mast-landing-bier-cellar-shorts-weather-ipa.  Any paid holds will be available anytime after 1pm on Friday.

These are four packs of 16oz cans and will retail for $17.99.  Many thanks to Mast Landing for partnering with us on such a fun beer.  This will be a one time release, so don't sleep on it, once they are gone, these cans are gone.  We hope to see you at one of our shops Friday to help kick off Summer, celebrate our anniversary and opening of a new shop and to welcome in Shorts Weather.

Bier Cellar: Gorham March 30 2018, 2 Comments

Today we have some exciting news for you.  Bier Cellar has signed a lease to open a second location in Gorham, Maine at 593 Main Street.  We are incredibly excited to bring our love of beer, wine, cider and mead to the rapidly growing community of Gorham.  We have spent the better part of six years growing relationships with breweries, distributors, wineries and cider makers and we can't wait to help share all of the fruits of those relationships with another city.  

I was born and raised in Buxton, growing up one town over from Gorham.  Having seen the growth of this community and purchased a house in Gorham ourselves in 2013, we've been waiting for the right opportunity to bring Bier Cellar to the town where we now live.

We will spend the next couple of months building out the new location right on Route 25, located near Lone Pine's new space as well as the beautiful new Sebago Brewing complex and right down the road from Mast Landing in Westbrook.  We want to be a part of making Gorham a craft beer mecca just like we have watched the City Of Portland became one of the best craft beer destinations in the United States since we opened in 2012.

Things won't change at the Portland store, we are lucky to have the most knowledgeable and helpful staff around, the same staff that made Men's Journal name Bier Cellar one of the best 50 beer stores in the country, and they will continue to make Bier Cellar what it has been for the past almost 6 years.  We have spend the last month hunting down some great talent on both the bier and wine side of our world, and we think they will only further the Bier Cellar tradition of great staff.

We opened Bier Cellar in 2012 as the first Craft Beer focused store in the Portland area.  You have supported us through almost six years of living our dream.  We can't wait to make so many more customers and friends as we expand and keep serving our existing customers and friends for years to come.

2017 Best Selling Biers January 18 2018, 0 Comments

2017 was a crazy year within the walls of Bier Cellar.  Thanks to your patronage and support our sales grew over 25% from 2016 and we were able to grow our staff, add a walk in cooler to keep all of our hoppy back stock chilled for freshness and reinvest in our business to make it the bottle shop you deserve.  Each year we like to compile our top ten best sellers to see what you guys were most in to this year and to see if any trends emerge.  2017, like 2016, was the year of the local four pack 16oz hoppy beer.  With only one non Maine brewed beer in the top ten, you guys definitely voted local with your dollars.  We rank these based on dollars, not on units, and this top ten include keg sales.  For example, we sold 110 kegs of Bissell Brothers The Substance in 2017, so even with their relatively limited retail distribution they captured the #4 spot.  So here are 2017's top 10 best sellers.

1. Lawson's Sip of Sunshine

2. Battery Steele Flume

3. Foundation Epiphany

4. Bissell Brothers The Substance 

5. Rising Tide MITA

6. Liquid Riot A Beer Has No Name

7. Foundation Afterglow

8. Mast Landing Dash IPA

9. Mast Landing DDH Tell Tale Pale

10. Austin Street Patina Pale Ale

A few interesting stats.  All of the top ten were four packs of 16oz cans.  Just over 10,000 four packs were sold of those top ten beers.  

Of the top ten, many had limited time available.  Batter Steele Flume launched in May, Sip of Sunshine in July.  Rising Tide MITA is only available during the warmer months, and is buoyed on the top ten by lots of keg sales.  Lawson's Sip of Sunshine outpaced the number 2 beer by 78%, almost double the sales of Batter Steele Flume.  The number 2, 3 and 4 beers were separated by less than 2% difference in total dollar sales.

It's fun to break down a total years numbers and see how the chips fell.  Our goal of providing the best and freshest beer and the most knowledgeable staff never changes, but it is interesting to see how the craft beer industry changes year in and year out.  Lagers, like Foundation's Riverton Flyer and Bunker's Machine Pils, weren't far out of the top 10.  Our collaboration with Liquid Riot, Tropical Storm, a kettle sour with fruit puree wasn't far out of the top 10 as was Oxbow's Momoko.  So although the top 10 is all hoppy, variety wasn't far away.  

Thanks again for your support in 2017 and we will continue to bust our ass to earn your business in 2018.  Happy New Year.

Veterans Day Weekend Detour November 06 2017, 0 Comments

On Saturday, November 11 and Sunday, November 12 the City of Portland will be working on our section of Forest Ave as part of their continuing sewer and storm drain separation project.  What this means is Forest Ave will be closed to traffic from Marginal Way to just before our store.  Put another way, you won't be able to use Forest Ave to get from 295 or downtown to Bier Cellar for those two days.  

The good news is, you can still access our parking lot via the Hannaford Parking Lot cut through that many customers use already.  The Hannaford Parking Lot is accessible from either Baxter Boulevard or Preble St.  We have included a map below to make it more clear.  

Give us a call or email if you need any more help getting to the shop (207-200-6258).

5th Anniversary Tasting May 30 2017, 0 Comments

On June 2, Bier Cellar officially turns 5 years old.  It's been a fun, crazy and delicious 5 years of curating a selection of what we consider to be the best beer, wine, cider and mead that we can get our hands on to offer to you.  Five years is a big milestone for us, and so we decided to throw a party for you guys to thank you for your support since we opened our door.

So on June 10th from 12-6pm we are hosting a tasting.  The premise is simple, we made a list of the breweries, importers and distributors who have been a big part of our first five years, and those we think will be a big part of the next five years.  We have broken the day up in to hour long segments, with a couple tastings going for each hour.  Here is the tentative schedule, which is subject to change/get shifted around a bit, but as we get closer it will get locked down 100%:

12pm-1pm:

Allagash Brewing (Pouring Avance, Emile, Little Brett, Map 40 & Dawnlander)

Bissell Brothers Brewing

1pm-2pm:

Foundation Brewing & Cascade Brewing & Almanac Brewing

2pm-3pm:

Austin Street Brewery & Orono Brewing

3pm-4pm:

Mast Landing Brewing

4pm-5pm:

Shelton Brothers Importers (Pouring Grimm Double Negative, Prairie Spaghetti Western aged in Grappa Barrels) 

5pm-6pm:

Liquid Riot 

Some breweries will be bringing beers for sale, some just to sample.   This will be the release of the 2017 batch of Tropical Storm, our collaboration with Liquid Riot we originally did for our 4th Anniversary that was such a wild success that it had to come back for another year.  This beer is a kettle sour that is fermented with guava, passionfruit and mango puree.  This year the beer will be packaged in 16oz four packs for Summer time crushing.

Mast Landing will also use this party as the retail launch of their Wessie IPA.  Never before canned when it was brewed twice last year, this is a West Coast Style IPA that fits in with the rest of the amazing IPA's coming out of that brewery.

Allagash Brewing is digging some sours out of their cellar for sale including Avance and Emile.  

Shelton Brothers has provided us with some Grimm and Prairie beers for sampling and some Cantillon Classic Gueuze for sale.  

So like we said, we planned a party for you guys as a thanks for supporting our little shop for 5 years.  We hope you get a chance to swing in a try some world class beer.  

Cheers from our whole staff.

Best Sellers of 2016 January 11 2017, 1 Comment

As 2017 begins we wanted to take a look back at the year of 2016.  A fun way to capture an entire year at a retail store is to take a look back at the top sellers.  This was a year of canned beers, beers with tons of hops specifically.  It was a tighter race this year for best sellers, with more beers packed together and without a dominant winner.  Without further ado, here are our 2016 top sellers:

1. Rising Tide Maine Island Trail Ale

2. Liquid Riot Headstash IPA

3. Bissell Brothers The Substance

4. Foundation Epiphany

5. Foundation Afterglow

6. Banded Horn Daikaiju

7. Bunker Brewing Cypher

8. Lord Hobo Boom Sauce

9. SoMe Apostrophe

10. Liquid Riot Kash Money IPA

There is only one beer on this list made outside of the State of Maine, Lord Hobo Boom Sauce, produced only a couple hours away in Massachusetts.  In case you think that is a fluke, the next 17, yes 17, beers were made in Maine.  (Reminds me of a review we got once where a guy said we didn't focus enough on local ;))  Only one beer in our top 50 sellers is made outside of New England, and that is Hoof Hearted, who get's an honorary New England badge for how fresh their beer is shipped, arrives and is sold.

So there you go, another year in the books.  Turns our you guys like hoppy beers in cans, who knew?

BCU: Bier Cellar University October 20 2016, 8 Comments

The last ten years I have spent obsessing about beer.  Homebrewing it, drinking it, analyzing it, talking about it, reading about it, living it.  Four years ago we opened Bier Cellar, and our mission was to share all that info with you, our friends and customers.  We attempt to impart some of what we learn through our email blasts, shelf talkers and most of all, in store interactions.  But we have decided to formalize that learning for those of you who want to dive a bit deeper in to the world of barley, hops, yeast and water.

What we are proposing is informal classes, with a small group, where we talk about, taste and analyze a topic with a group of like minded people.  Some of the topics can be pretty advanced and hardcore, different brettanomyces strains and their impact or tasting off flavors, but we also would like to hit on some more basic topics, such as country/style topics, to lay the groundwork for advancing your knowledge in the hobby.  

Here's what we need from you.  We have some topics in mind, but would love to hear from you on some topics you might be interested in.  We would love to build this to the point of bringing in guests to talk about topics, but we need your help.  So in the comments, or by email, let us know what class you would be interested in attending.

Thanks and we hope to see you at school.

From Away: Non Local Beer In Maine August 02 2016, 0 Comments

I recently read a great article on GoodBeerHunting.com entitled "You're Not From Around Here Are You? -- Imports In The Age of Local" that was an analysis of how imported beer has fared in the current locavore movement in craft beer.  It got me thinking about imported in another way, just just from another country, but from even another state.  Here's my $.02 on how that's playing out in our little shop.

Maine has always been a Buy Local state, it's one of the things I love the most about my home state.  The support of locals during those cold non-tourist months help breweries, restaurants and shops survive, and those businesses in turn help make Portland and Maine a destination for beer, food and shopping.  But the past couple years has seen that Buy Local ethos shift in to overdrive within beer.  We hear from sales reps from other states that Maine is a tough market if you aren't from here, akin to Vermont.  Part of that is intuitive, with the craze of drinking IPA's that are minutes old, those IPA's can't be shipped across the country.  But for styles like sour/wild ales and other beers that can handle some age, something else is at work.

Since March of this year, only 2 beers out of our top 25 best sellers didn't come from the State of Maine.   The sole outlier was Lord Hobo, located about two hours south in Woburn, Massachusetts. So clearly, at least in our four walls, customers have a local preference.  I know most of you are yelling, "because we have great beer in Maine", and we obviously do.  Bier Cellar has been a champion of local brewers since we opened our doors in 2012.  But does this explain 100% of these trends?  There are styles/beers produced outside of Maine that are superior to those being produced inside our border.  I know, blasphemy, right?

What does this mean for brewers from outside (and inside increasingly) the Maine market in 2016?  You better have your game on lock.  You better make a world class example of your style.  Your quality control, marketing, packaging, social media better be on point.  The classics (Orval, Saison Dupont, Rodenbach) and our shop favorites (De La Senne, Kerkom, Blaugies, Trou du Diable, and more) all have a place on our shelves.  But every other inch is being fought for every day.  Everytime a new brand launches, or we bring in new beer, another beer or brewery loses it's spot.  It's great for the consumer, because as that happens, and we bring in better beer and other beers don't make the cut, the quality just goes up.  Curating a beer store in 2016 means painting with much higher quality brushes and paint then we did in 2012.  

Never has there been a better time to be a beer drinker than in 2016.  We just gently suggest that every once in awhile, let your palate leave the borders of the great State of Maine, you might find a higher appreciation for the beers produced within those borders.

Wine Boxes for Bier Geeks (and Wine Geeks) July 27 2016, 0 Comments

I came to love wine from the beer side.  Walking in to a wine store was overwhelming, styles and varietals and wildly different price points.  It was like being a novice beer drinker and walking in to a shop like ours and trying to figure out how a Gose is different than a Geuze.  Walking in to a wine store and trying to understand how a red Burgundy differed from a California Zinfandel, what is a Sancerre and why is Champagne so expensive?  

But slowly, by opening lots and lots of bottles of wine, we became comfortable buying wine for ourselves.  Then we opened Bier Cellar, and became comfortable buying and recommending wine for others.  Now we want to pass on what we have learned and start offering boxes of some of our favorite wines at a big discount to you.

We have put together two different offerings, the 4 for $45 box and the 6 for $80 box.  These are boxes of some of our favorite wines, complete with tasting notes at a 10% discount off the shelf price.  They are meant to be grab and go boxes, you simply pick one up, take it home and start enjoying wine.  We have taken away the pressure of picking good wines and have done that work for you.  

The 4 for $45 box is very seasonal, and will shift often with the seasons.  For example, right now in the Summer, it is filled with white wine and rose, perfect for hot weather.  The 6 for $80 box has a bit more of a variety, with a couple red wines tossed in for either more substantial food pairing (like barbeque) or for the cooler nights.  Both prices include tax and deposit, that is your price out the door.

This is our attempt to make wine buying have less pressure, and give you some cost savings while we are at it.  We have selected our best quality to price ratio wines that work with the season and are drinking great right now.  There are links to both of the packages below, or stop by with any questions:

Six for $80

Four for $45

Some Weeks July 19 2016, 0 Comments

One of the core tenants of Bier Cellar is to carry beer as fresh as possible.  Now, sometimes we are constrained by wanting to carry a beer that comes from far away, and obviously it takes some time to get that beer to Maine.  Let's be honest, Maine is the center of our universe, but not the center of THE universe.  We have to make some concessions to have beer from other places.

That being said, we try our hardest to carry little to no back stock.  Our backroom is barren compared to other beer stores.  It would be heretical at your average big box liquor store to run out of products, but we would rather run out with lean inventory, then have old beer sitting in our back room.  Doing things this way puts us at the mercy of our distributors and breweries to keep the supply chain filled.  Some weeks that doesn't happen, and things can get a little lean.  Then there are weeks like this week.  I sat down and was planning out the week and was blown away with what will be coming in.  

Yesterday, Monday, we got the first batch of Long Trail Space Juice we have seen in awhile.  If you haven't had this beer before it is a juicy, piney Double IPA that was canned less than a week ago.  

Now today, the onslaught continues with drops from Bissell Brothers of The Substance, which will last it's normal five minutes on the floor (just kidding, a couple hours), as well as resupply of Allagash's James Bean, a limited run of Curieux brewed with coffee.

Wednesday will see drops from Oxbow (Saison dell'Aragosta, their Saison collaboration with Italian brewery Del Ducato that features lobster and got huge press when it was released the first time).  Wednesday will also see drops from Foundation (Zuurzing and Afterglow) and Marshall Wharf (Cant Dog).  We will also see a Shelton Brothers delivery Wednesday, with beers from De La Senne, Anchorage, Trou du Diable, Lervig, Siren/Cigar City and more.

Finally, Thursday we will see the first monster drops of cans off Liquid Riots new 30 barrel fermenters.  Hopefully Headstash and Primus for weekend crushing.

Now, all of these deliveries are contingent on canning lines, trucks, how the wind blows, so are subject to change.  But weeks like this are like an avalanche of good beer, so get while the getting is good and fresh and we will do our best to make sure it stays that way.

Happy Summer.

Bier Cellar 2016 July 14 2016, 0 Comments

What we are good at: 

• Selling ridiculously good beer to people
• High fives

What we are bad at:

• Updating our blog
• Pretending bad beer is good beer

So, as I write this, Bier Cellar is four years old.  Four years of bier, and my has the world changed.  When we opened in 2012, there were no canned craft beers available outside of Baxter.  Now, who doesn't can?  If you don't can, you don't sell beer pretty much.  Beers with the word sour and wild in the description were a rarity, now it is rare to see a week that doesn't see new sours and wild ales in the market.

It's been a crazy year this last year.  It was incredibly fun/rewarding to cap it off with the third beer in our anniversary beer series.  The first two were done with Austin Street, who this year expanded, along with lots of other breweries in Maine.  This year's anniversary beer, Tropical Storm, was done with our friends at Liquid Riot.  Liquid Riot is, in my humble opinion, the most underrated brewery in our State of Maine.  Tropical Storm was a kettle soured wheat beer brewed with mango, guava and passionfruit.  Sadly, but not unexpectedly, that beer disappeared quickly, with us selling our 50 cases in under a week.  Hopefully we can talk them in to a second batch :)

We just unrolled our new loyalty program, which has replaced our old email list loyalty program.  It follows the same formula, spend 100 dollars, get a  5% off coupon.  But now you can get points for things like social media follows, birthdays, and for just signing up.  You can join the email list at http://biercellar.com/pages/email-list., you can join the loyalty program by just clicking on "Rewards Program" at the bottom of our homepage.

We have brought on new staff and said goodbye to some familiar faces, as is the way with retail.  We thank all of our former employees for the way they have uniquely shaped Bier Cellar, and we are super excited to see what the new employees will bring to the shop.  

We had a new record sales year in year 4, and we thank you for that.  We thank you for the positive outpouring of love when we were attacked by a social media wielding douchebag who hides behind a keyboard, and his boss who decided that was how he wanted to compete with the rest of us in the Portland beer scene.  I honestly believe the public can sniff out authenticity and true love for the scene, and those who see good beer as a quick buck.  

We are always open to feedback to what we are doing right and what we could do better as a beer and wine store.  We so appreciate when customers reach out to us personally and engage in a conversation.  Send me an email at greg at biercellar.com, I always love to chat.

New Rewards Program June 23 2016, 0 Comments

Update: A few people have asked if balances for members reset to zero.  Yes they do, unfortunately it is not possible to import any balances to the new program, but any coupon codes earned in the past few months are valid and we will issue June coupons as soon as the month ends.

Following our switch over to our new Point of Sale system in March 2016, we were forced to change our loyalty/rewards program.  We looked long and hard for a solution that rewarded our customers for their repeat business in a way that was meaningful and convenient.  Finally, we have found our solution.  By partnering with Sweet Tooth Rewards, we will be able to reward not only purchases in store and online, but also through your interaction with our social media, through telling friends about Bier Cellar and several other ways.  We have a step by step below to walk you through either adding the loyalty program on to your existing BierCellar.com account, or creating a new one.   Even if you are an existing BierCellar.com customer, or are/were a member of our email list, you must signup for the new program to gain/use points.   

Points can be redeemed in the following ways:

• 100 Points for a 5% off coupon
• 500 Points for a 10% off coupon

You can earn points in the following ways:

• 100 Points For Creating Rewards Program Account
• 1 Point For Every Dollar Spent
• 100 Points For Referring A Friend
• 200 Points On Your Birthday
• 50 Points For Liking/Following Our Facebook/Instragram/Twitter Account

So now that we covered what the account entails, here is how to get started:

 Go to http://www.biercellar.com, click on the Rewards Program Tab.  This will be where you will control your rewards program account from:

 A small screen will appear, where you can either log in to your existing BierCellar.com account if you have one, or create a new BierCellar.com account:

Once you either log in to your existing BierCellar.com account or setup a new one, you should be brought to the following screen showing your rewards balance, as well as giving you the opportunity to redeem any earned points.  On a separate tab, where it says "Earn Points", you can find out how to earn additional points.:

If you wish to redeem your rewards in store, we will do that at check out.  If you wish to redeem the points on our online store, simply click on the "Redeem" button next to the reward you wish to redeem.  You will be given a coupon code to use at checkout for  your discount.  The same code will be emailed to you:

We hope you enjoy the new loyalty program, and we again thank you for your patience while we transitioned.

Top Sellers 2015 January 02 2016, 0 Comments

2015 was a great year at Bier Cellar.  We experienced double digit growth this year, meaning more of you out there are digging what we are doing and we thank you for allowing us to do what we love for a living.  December was our busiest month on record, with back to back weeks breaking our busiest week record.  We owe a great 2015 to our customers, and I have to thank our staff as well for working hard this year to try to make everyone who walks through our door a happy customer.

Before we get to the top ten best sellers this year I want to thank the people who make and deliver the beer, because without them we would all go thirsty.  The beer scene in Maine received lots of national attention this year, and for good reason.  Our brewers are among the best in the country and world.  It is a great time to be a beer lover in Maine.

The story of 2015 at Bier Cellar had two major themes.  The first is that as far as producers go, sales greatly diversified this year.  Although our top seller remained the same this year, the gap's between each top beer narrowed considerably.  Last year Bissell Brothers Substance sold four times as much as the second place beer, Rising Tide MITA.  This year, 1 and 2 remained the same, but the gap has narrowed to a very slight amount.  

The second major theme was IPA's once again dominating sales, especially IPA's in cans.  8 of the top 10 beers were IPAs in cans and all of the top 10 beers could be considered IPAs of some sort.  But without further ado, here are our top sellers of 2015.  The previous rank is listed in parentheses beside the current rank.  New beers that weren't on the list are abbreviated (NB):

1 (1).  Bissell Brothers Substance

2 (2). Rising Tide Maine Island Trail Ale

3 (NB). Foundation Epiphany

4 (NB). Lord Hobo Boom Sauce

5 (NB). Ballast Point Sculpin

6 (NB). Bissell Brothers Swish

7 (NB). Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin

8 (NB). Banded Horn Veridian

9 (6). Maine Beer Company Lunch

10 (12). Bissell Brothers Bucolia

Hoof Hearted Q&A October 17 2015, 0 Comments

On Thursday, 10/22 from 5:30-7:30pm, we will host a tasting/launch of Hoof Hearted Brewing from the Columbus, Ohio area.  Because the guys can't make the tasting (don't worry, they will be here for an event at Nosh in early November), we wanted to ask them a few questions to introduce them to the Portland area.  

As you quickly get the idea from their brewery name, their label art and their general ethos, these guys clearly take their beer seriously, but not themselves.  

This will be the first time cans have been available outside of the Ohio area.  The beer we will be selling will be Roller Blabe Double IPA, which has been getting ridiculous buzz online.  Thanks to Trevor at Hoof Hearted for taking the time to answer a few questions:

With your beer being so highly regarded (great ratings and reviews) and only available in Ohio, why are you sending us beer here in the backwoods State of Maine?  Do you have a thing for moose or lobsters? We purchased our brewhouse & fermenters from Tigpro in Portland. Last Dec. we came up to check out their progress and had an insanely great time annihilating Poutine & Oxbow FPA at Nosh, hanging with the Bissell Brothers, & eating pizza in a greenhouse at Funky Bow. So basically we were looking for any excuse to come back to eat killer food & party.

Lazy question: how did you guys decide to enter the beer business?  What's your backgroud? We had all been traveling a lot and drinking killer beer everywhere else except for Columbus where there had been the same 3 breweries for the last 20 years. We knew we had to make a vow of dankness. Flash Forward there are now a shit load of breweries here. I (Trevor Williams) was a wine sales rep for a wine distributor in Columbus and I have two partners Jarrod Bichon is welding engineer/automation specialist and Ryan Bichon was a Web Developer.

History of Best Sellers Through April 2015 May 13 2015, 0 Comments

The following is the top seller (in dollars) for each month going back to our opening in June 2012.  We are happy to see that most month's winners are made right here in the 207.