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In 2012, Maine's 43 brewing establishments (including breweries, brewpubs, importers, and company-owned packagers and wholesalers) employed 390 people directly, and more than 5,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing. [1] Altogether 47 people in Maine had active brewer permits in 2012. [2]
The pub is on Hare & Billet Road, and across that road lies Hare and Billet Pond, considered to have the most natural appearance and probably the best wildlife habitat of the four ponds on Blackheath. [5] The road is said to be haunted by the ghost of an 18th century woman who hanged herself from an elm tree when her lover failed to meet her there.
The Fore Street location is considered the first brewpub to open in Maine since Prohibition ended. [3] In 1995, a second location with a larger brewing facility was opened in Freeport, Maine. The company experienced a downturn in sales in the late 1990s, as did most craft breweries. [1] A third brewpub was opened in Auburn, Maine, in 2005.
Shipyard is the largest brewer in Maine (owning the Shipyard, Sea Dog Brewing Company, [1] and Casco Bay Brewing Company banners, and bottling under contract with Gritty McDuff's Brewing Company). Shipyard is the fourth largest microbrewery in New England after Boston Beer Company , Harpoon Brewery , and Magic Hat Brewing Company .
The Green Man was a public house on Blackheath Hill (now the A2), in Blackheath, London. It was an important stop for coach traffic owing to its position and was used as the headquarters of the Royal Blackheath Golf Club. It hosted "free-and-easy" music hall evenings in the 19th century and jazz and pop music in the 20th.
The Great Lost Bear is a bar and restaurant at 540 Forest Avenue in Portland, Maine, United States. Established in 1979 by Dave and Weslie Evans and Chip MacConnell, [1] it is noted for its selection of draft craft beers. [2] [3] [4]
The property was built by Dr. John Anglier Hyde, a local physician. (Hyde's daughter, Mary, married Ebenezer Wells, professor of obstetrics at the Medical School of Maine.) [6] Shortly after the home's completion, it was sold to Captain Samuel Jameson (1766–1814). [7] It was run as a tavern between 1801 and 1828, when Jameson's widow sold it. [3]
The Sun in the Sands is a pub-restaurant between Blackheath and Shooter's Hill in London. It lends its name to the adjacent junction, where the A2 between central London and north Kent meets the A102, which notably, to the north, provides access to the Blackwall Tunnel. Several Transport for London (TfL) bus routes pass the former simple ...