Easy transition from Red Ales, Brown ales and some darker lagers.” It had great color and taste.Ī few blocks away, an excellent dinner awaited us at Cafe Miranda ( “funky, edgy and eclectic – this is not your white table cloth sort of place. roasted malt notes and middle-of-the-road, balanced flavor. We split an outstanding pint of their Copperhouse ESB (6.0%) and we could understand why it is their flagship beer: The Pub had sixteen beers on tap and about half are brewed in-house. Īnd I intend to take him up on his offer for a reserved seat in the gallery at his first State-of-the-State address! Meeting interesting people like Amelia and John is one of our motivations for traveling and visiting breweries!īefore dinner, the Rock Harbor Brewery and Pub, right on Main Street of this city of 7,300 beckoned. The town of a little less than 7,000 was founded in 1770 and like our Portland, the name (derived from the Northern Ireland city) was determined by a coin toss.īesides his political career, he is a small businessman and motivational speaker who declared as an Independent write-in candidate for Governor in 2018. On the morning drive we visited the Marshall Wharf Brewery in quaint Belfast.
It would have been nice to have more time in the “right-coast” Portland, but we had to drive to Boston for our flight home to the “left-coast” PDX. on Samuel Adams Beer and a fascinating legal issue involving both coasts of the USA.)
(See the end of the post for some interesting info. If you are seeing this on your phone, click on the caption at the top to access the blog.)Īfter our three and one-half days in New York City, two days on the lake in Bridgton, Maine and then another two at Acadia National Park (click on the links to see the blog posts), we took a day and one-half driving down the beautiful coastline of Maine before spending an afternoon and evening in Portland. And the final night was in Boston. The Penobsot Narrows Bridge – the tallest bridge observatory in the world!
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