We have recently added Kelly to our tour operations staff. Learn a little bit more about her interesting background in today’s The Beer in ME post. I’ve written before about how many of our current and past staff members have joined the Maine Brew Bus team shortly after moving to Portland. It’s a great way to…
Andy’s Old Port Pub is on Commercial St in Portland, right across from our official home at Craft Beer Cellar. After watching several thousand guests board our buses for educational fun, the owners of Andy’s closed for Andy Day so their staff could have some fun too. 
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Joel Alex had a vision to connect Maine-grown grain directly to Maine’s brewers. His Blue Ox Malthouse in Lisbon Falls now prepares various grains for use in breweries. We recently went to their open house celebration to learn more about the unsung hero of beer.
Our Road Team is on the go next weekend with two simultaneous events in two states. The Rhode Island Brew Fest is in Pawtucket, and the America On Tap series makes a stop in Portland. 
Our second appearance at the…
A hearty cheers as Craig Lanzillotti joins the Maine Brew Bus team as our very first Road Team lead. Find out more about his important role in promoting our tours throughout New England. But first, some background… We learned very early on how important it was to market our business out of state. With so…
Visitors really depend on the local knowledge of their hotel staff once they arrive in Portland. So we recently took hotel guest services employees out for a Lodging Familiarization Tour. The modern traveler relies on a number of research tools before visiting a new city. Google research leads to Best of and Top Ten lists, TripAdvisor…
The Maine Brew Bus is pleased to welcome Jack Van Paepeghem to our faculty in the position of Curriculum Coordinator. Learn more about Jack and what he can share with all of us.
The Maine Brew Bus was featured this week on the website Business Insider. Ride along with video editor Stephen Parkhurst on a recent Beast of the yEast tour. Maine native Stephen Parkhurst is a video editor for the popular website Business Insider. He contacted us in December with an idea, he was coming back to…
We try to hire team members that are in constant pursuit of learning more about craft beer. In the process, our staff are often unknowingly “auditioning” to work in the industry. See what some of our past faculty are brewing and doing in craft beer. Some of our staff came to us with a pretty…
One of the first beer festivals of the year is scheduled this Saturday at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Join us for either session of Bangor On Tap. The beginning of the year is traditionally not a busy time for beer festivals in Maine. The potentially dicey weather and cold temperatures has meant that…