Treat your valentine to a gourmet dinner in the Optimus Room with perfect wine pairings, romantic delights and the soulful music of acoustic guitarist Jeff Cusack. 
Tune in to WJAB 96.3 FM/1440 AM every Thursday from 5:00 - 6:00pm for The Shipyard Hour with Chris Sedenka on The PM Jab. Each week a co-host from Shipyard Brewing Company joins Chris to talk sports and beer. We encourage your calls and participation in the discussion. Tune in every Thursday at 5:00pm and talk beer on The PM Jab!
The Maine Brewers Festival planning team made some time for Shipyard Brewing Company's new Pugsley's Signature Series one recent wintry evening at the Coat of Arms in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Read the blog entry HERE. "Man, oh, man, what a fine place for a stormy night, with an abundant supply of draft-craft, and a good selection of cask-conditioned choices, including the full and tasty Pugsley's Signature Series Imperial Porter."
On Monday, January 26, Bruce Forsley of Shipyard Brewing Company will be interviewed live at 9:20 a.m. on WSFZ 930 AM "Supersport 930" radio out of Jackson, Mississippi. If you aren't in Mississippi, you can still listen live on the web at this LINK..jpg)
Coastal Living Magazine featured The Inn on Peaks Island as one of its Top 10 Romantic Island Inns. Read the article HERE. "Leave the mainland behind and sneak away to one of these heavenly hideaways....In winter, you can snuggle up at the [Inn on Peaks Island] and enjoy the muted clang of buoys in the bay and the sharp scent of a wood fire."
Don't miss Twitter Taste Live tonight at 8:00 pm EST. Here's the scoop from A Blog About Beer:This Saturday January 17th will mark a great day in the growing emergance of craft beer on the popular microblogging & social networking platform Twitter. At five o’clock PST (that’s 8:00pm for those of us here on the East Coast), beer and Twitter enthusiasts the world-over will gather at Twitter Taste Live — a site originally launched to do real-time sampling of wine via Twitter, which has since expanded to include tastings of cigars and beer — for the first of what TTL regulars hope will be many beer tastings to come. The tasting is being co-hosted by Jay Brooks of the Brookston Beer Bulletin, who will be “on hand” Tweeting about the tasting and answering any questions that arise. The tasting is called...MORE
The Inn on Peaks Island and executive chef Chris Gordon, the Maine Restaurant Association's 2009 Chef of the Year, proudly presents the 2009 Island Dining Series.
Have dinner with the Beatles! New England’s Beatles tribute band All Together Now performs at a live dinner show.
Michelle is an out of state Shipyard Brewing Company fan and sends us this photo and note to kick off the new year:"I visited your brewery earlier this year and brought a case home. At a family party, we were drinking it and my dog was going nuts over the smell. So after we finished a bottle we let him lick the top. Since he's a Chihuahua this photo has provided many laughs for a lot of my family and friends, because everyone says the same thing -- the caption should be, 'Who needs a Corona? I'm a Chihuahua and I drink Shipyard from Maine!' Hope you all get as many laughs as we did!!!"
James from Seattle, Washington sent us this photo of an idea he had for a Shipyard Brewing Company Coozie. He bought this at the Shipyard Gift Shop this summer to keep his beer cool and, instead of retiring it when the snow arrived, put it to good use to keep the water for his hummingbird friends from freezing after a winter snow storm.
Don Russell (aka Joe Sixpack)is a prolific writer and beer columnist in Philadelphia. Don't miss his new book, hot off the press: Christmas Beer -- The Cheeriest, Tastiest and Most Unusual Holiday Brews
