Posts by baxterstg
Love & Pride
It’s finally June! A month full of warm weather, campfires, cookouts – the start of Pride Month and its many festivities. Pride Month has been important to me since coming out at the age of 14. I grew up in the relatively small town of Auburn, Maine. Pride celebrations, parties, and parades were where I…
Read MoreGone Fishin’
Have you ever heard the term “secret fishing hole?” It’s a term not thrown around lightly among the die-hard angler community. Mentions of such things often dissipate as quickly as they appear. The term usually carries an aura of mystique, status, and most of all, secrecy. Well as luck has it, I encountered my first…
Read MoreA Sensory of Direction
We all have that one beer; our so-called “Ah-ha!” moment. I remember mine vividly. It was a Russian imperial stout, much like our very own Wicked Dark. Everything about that beer was pleasing to me: the jet-black color, the inch-and-a-half of brown-tinted foam on top, a warm alcohol sensation. It was rich with complex coffee,…
Read MoreThis Too Shall Pass
If you have read a newspaper or turned on a television set in the last 60 days you know we find ourselves in a “new normal” in which seemingly everything has changed. Life for me has become a game of figuring out how to come out on top of the ubiquitous stress, anxiety, and depression.…
Read MorePink Boots Get Muddy
On March 8, Baxter Brewing proudly hosted a consortium of beer industry professionals to take part in the creation of a new product for our “Passion Project” beer series. This collaborative super team consisted of accomplished restaurant owners and managers as well as personnel from multiple breweries in Maine including brewers, owners, marketing associates, HR…
Read MoreThoughts on the Run
“I wanna give the Earth relief, R-E-C-Y-C-L-E. Oh, I wanna give the Earth relief, R-E-C-Y-C-L-E! Runners have a funny habit of getting songs stuck in their heads. As characteristic as cold beer is after a hard workout, it is likewise common practice to fixate on a tune and…
Read MoreIntroducing Out of Range
We all love the allure of escape. Whether eluding our daily stressors, the responsibilities of adulthood or how to embark on the upkeep of our social lives, we all look to get away sometimes. Today, escape could not be more on the forefront of our collective minds. Here in Maine nature abounds, and gives us comprehension to the notion of wanderlust and being out of…
Read MoreFree Jacks with BBG
Wow! As of 2020, Major League Rugby has a New England team: The Free Jacks. Their new home is in Weymouth, Massachusetts. “Okay, John, why all the excitement; are you a rugby fan?” Glad you asked. I grew up in Weymouth and that’s where I started my professional career in the alcohol industry. Weymouth is…
Read MoreCraft Beer & Beards
In the craft beer world there is a common phenomenon that happens: Beards. At the very least, some sort of facial hair is corralled or tamed into a unique design only fitting the face it is on. Some twenty plus years ago my classmates, working a list of superlatives, conferred me the “Rusty Razor Award”. …
Read MoreNew Year, New Baxter!
This isn’t a rebrand at all–it’s a revolution. The word “REVOLUTION” means “going back to the beginning.” That’s why we’re not looking at the new face of Baxter beers as a rebrand. We’re going back to the beginning–back to our Maine identity, of portable cans that can be enjoyed by everyone, everywhere. The entire Baxter…
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