Portland Beer Week

Beer Week is in full swing - how is everyone holding up? Bill Murray may have spent the day with his Ghostbuster pals instead of drinking beer with us, but we're not sad. I don't know about you, but I've had enough great Maine beer already this week to last quite some time, but the week's not over yet!

Don't say I didn't warn ya! This Saturday is the kick off of Portland Beer Week and will be chock full of events to check out. The listing of all the events, and all the details can be found at www.portlandbeerweek.org. After pouring over the schedule, I think I can say I found some of the weirdest, most interesting or just plain cool events - and here's my mini-list below...

While everyone is super excited about Halloween next week, there are a few things happening before and afterwards to put on your radar: This weekend: Saturday morning (9am) will be the release of Allagash Ghoulship, a unique pumpkin based beer that was fermented in the open air...

Shahin Khojastehzad, co-owner of Novare Res Bier Cafe on Exchange St, is running a campaign to get Bill Murray to Portland on November 5 for Portland Beer Week.