PORTLAND, Maine — Shipyard Brewing Co. has leased space in a Memphis brewery to make its Shipyard Pumpkinhead, a wheat beer available in Maine from September to October.
Blues City Brewery will help the craft brewery meet this fall’s expected high demand for a seasonal beer.
Shipyard president Fred Forsley said the company’s Portland brewery is at full capacity and brewing in Memphis will allow it to meet demand.
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I only wish they could have expanded here in Maine. Please don’t let it be that they will eventually be moving everything south.
its a short term deal to meet a seasonal peak demand for pumpkin head. It wouldn’t be feasible to build brewery space to brew some extra beer people drink in the fall — leasing space at a larger brewery with excess capacity (there are none in Maine) is the only economically feasible option. Even Sam Adams does it.
It is a healthy sign for a company when demand exceeds capacity! (unless the demand is for beer and your name is pushtheredbutton, that is).
Booze has created more trouble for people than anything else in this country.
Drunks can say what they want but it starts off with beer goes to hard liquor then drugs.. It needs to be taxed $1 per bottle of beer of 50 cents a glass, that way we can pay for all the people in prison who did stupid stuff while drunk…