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A new brewery coming to the Pepperell Mill in Biddeford will brew only gluten-free beer, using millet, buckwheat and rice as ingredients.
Lucky Pigeon Brewing’s head brewer, Scott Nebel, formerly of Maine Beer Co., is experimenting with several styles, including IPAs, a brown ale and a Kolsch-style blonde. The co-owners of the business – Kathleen Pigeon, Bev Pigeon, Nic Bramer and Lesley Bramer – are raising money for a canning machine on indiegogo.com. So far they’ve raised just over $2,000 of their $20,000 goal.
CANANDAIGUA Picture big white fluffy snowflakes falling from the sky.
While cold, it’s not that deep-in-the-bones stay-in-the-house-under-the-covers-until-May frigid cold that a warm coat, hat and gloves (or perhaps the mittens in the Bernie Sanders inauguration memes that are making the rounds so hysterically on social media) won’t cure.
But it helps to be sipping a big-bodied stout by a firepit to help cut the bite of winter’s cold.
Stouts, according to David D’Allesandro, who with wife Meagan owns Frequentem Brewery in Canandaigua, are a really cool style for these months.
“In the winter, people want big red wines, they want bourbon or whiskey to warm them up,” D’Allesandro said. “And the big roasty character of stouts l think lends itself really nicely to colder months.”