Stay warm with a cold one at these Maine breweries
Ten breweries with the best outdoor seating areas for winter.
By Catie Joyce-Bulay
Photo courtesy of Rising Tide Brewing Co.
Enjoying a beer outside in Maine has typically been an activity reserved for the warmer months, but with breweries upgrading their outdoor seating areas during the pandemic, now winter is included.
The state has not allowed tasting rooms to reopen indoors since the start of the pandemic, but many breweries have kept their outdoor seating areas open and enhanced them with heating sources to keep you warm – some with live music stages to keep you entertained, so you won’t even notice the cold. Here, we’ve rounded up 10 breweries with the best outdoor setups. A couple are also full-service restaurants with indoor seating as well, but we’re opting for fire pits and fish shacks when we can.