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Read Article Ericka Malley organizes the craft beer refrigerators at Bow Street Beverage in Portland this week. Janine Kerr, a manager, said Bow Street Beverage has been “much, much busier” with retail sales this year but wholesale business has dropped. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer Mainers stocked up on liquor in the early weeks of the pandemic, but sales data suggest the rest of 2020 remained largely in line with previous years. Heading into December, wholesale gross sales for the state’s liquor operation showed a rise of 9.3 percent over the same nine-month stretch of 2019, according to state data. The previous five years showed an average annual growth of about 7 percent. ....