For Subscribers Maine craft brew can-do: It was a bitter year, but they canned more, tweaked taprooms and hung on After a decade of stout growth in Maine, "the world came to a crashing halt," as one Auburn craft brewer put it, for the craft brew industry and everyone else in the pandemic. Now many brewers are feeling better about 2021. Share Otterslide, an American IPA, is Lost Valley Brewing Co.’s No. 1-selling beer. By pure chance, brewer Darren Finnegan bought equipment to start canning one month before the start of the pandemic. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal AUBURN — Darren Finnegan bought Lost Valley Brewing Co.’s first canning equipment a month before the pandemic. Thrilled by the timing, he spent three months canning beer in the morning and driving it to customers’ homes in the afternoon.