Booze Cruise On Wheels: Aboard The Maine Brew Bus

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• The Local Pour Tour starts with a beer and sausage tasting at The Thirsty Pig in Portland's Old Port
• Allagash White paired with Buffalo chicken sausage at The Thirsty Pig
• Maine Brew Bus owner Zach Poole (right) at The Thirsty Pig
• The Maine Brew Bus at Maine Mead Works
• Sampling sausages at The Thirsty Pig
• The Thirsty Pig specializes in sausages and, naturally, beer
• Tasting Honeymaker Mead at Maine Mead Works
• Don Littlefield on the Maine Brew Bus
• At Bunker Brewing in Portland's East Bayside neighborhood
• Chresten Sorensen of Bunker Brewing
• East Bayside has been nicknamed "Yeast Bayside" because of its growing brewing and fermenting industry
• Tasting cider and kombucha at Urban Farm Fermentory in East Bayside
• Ned Wight of New England Distilling
• New England Distilling's Ingenium Gin, featured on cocktail menus in Portland and beyond

The beverages on tap and in bottles at Maine's restaurants and bars are, increasingly, made right here in the state. For thirsty explorers eager to know the stories behind the what's in their beer mug or cocktail glass, a little green bus named Lenny is here to help. The slogan for The Maine Brew Bus is "Driving You To Drink Local." Launched by Zach Poole last fall, this is the MBB's first summer on the road. Poole is ably assisted by fellow beer geek, Don Littlefield, who keeps passengers entertained between stops with history lessons and trivia quizzes. Three tours are currently offered, with more coming in June. To soak up the beer and booze, they all include stops at eateries: The Run of the Mill Public House & Brewery in Saco on both the Casco Fiasco and York County Bounty tours, Federal Jack's in Kennebunkport (the birthplace of Shipyard beer) on the Casco Fiasco tour and The Thirsty Pig in Portland on the Local Pour Tour.

· The Maine Brew Bus [Official Site]