Maine Beer Project explores Maine’s beer and brewing culture in its many forms—as food, as commodity, as a node of social networks of consumers and producers, as an expression of identity, and as a shaper of the built environment.

Follow the buttons below to learn about the 34 historical breweries of Maine.

CASCO BREWERY

GEO. WILSON/B. BELLECOUR

J.E. HOWE AND SONS

FOREST CITY BREWERY

JOHN BRADLEY

JOHN FRENCH

LEVERETT S. BALDWIN

THE FLAHERTY BROTHERS

JOHN A. WALLIS

AARON B. ROBINSON

JAMES AND CHARLES HINDLE

FOREST CITY BREWERY

PATRICK MCGLINCH

JAMES MCGLINCH

ROBERT NEWTON

RUMERY AND CHASE

JOSHUA P. MADDOX

6 MAIN STREET

JOHN CANTILLON

BENJAMIN F. HALEY

YOUNG & HOWE

AUGUSTUS R. STANTON

HARMON W. PAINE

EMERY O. WALKER

BENJAMIN F. WALKER

TRISTRAM WALKER

THE DEPOT HOTEL

ASAHEL PENNIMAN

J. PARLIN WYMAN

L.R. MARSH

ROBERT W. ARMOUR

CHARLES T. GARDNER

SUMNER A. WHEELER