Stoneface Brewery News Today

The Portsmouth location will stay the same as Somersworth provides space for expanded production as well as a gathering place.

PORTSMOUTH — A permanent reduction in the federal excise tax on craft beer production means less money for the U.S. government and more money for local brewers as they climb out of the economic dregs of the COVID-19 pandemic. “This relief allows us to thrive as opposed to creating a situation — especially in times like these when everybody is hurting — where your margins get dwindled down to nothing,” said Dagan Migirditch, co-founder of Liars Bench Beer and Bodega on Islington Str...

Russ Hilliard says it takes nearly two years, sometimes even more, to grow an oyster from seed at his aquatic farm in Hampton Harbor. Once grown, the majority of his tasty crop is either sold to local restaurants, or directly to customers at his retail store on the beach, which he runs with his business partner, Conor Walsh. A select few of the succulent mollusks, however, have been finding their way up the road to Newington, where they have been thrown right into the boil at Stoneface Brewing ...