E-Malt.com News article: USA, ME: Foulmouthed Brewing plans to open a brewpub in South Portland

A Portland couple unveiled plans for the first brewery in Knightville, South Portland, and only the second in the city, Bangor Daily News reported on October 8.

Pending approval from the Planning Board, which is scheduled to hold its first hearing on the proposal on October 13, Foulmouthed Brewing‘s owners Craig and Julia Dilger will open in a building that was once an auto garage.

The property is still in the early stages of renovation, and the Dilgers said they expect the business to be up and running sometime next spring.

“Foulmouthed Brewing will be a brewpub, rather than a brewery with just a tasting room,” Craig Dilger said.

The Dilgers said they have been talking about starting a brewery since they got together about eight years ago. They said the business name, Foulmouthed, is a play on the region’s history, when all of greater Portland was known collectively as Falmouth.

The name is also a reference to “the city’s seafaring history and the many salty conversations between sailors on the waterfront,” according to the Dilgers.

Dilger, who has been a home brewer for more than a decade, said a brewpub will allow them to offer more beer options without worrying about bottling and distribution.

He will brew with friend and fellow brewer Bill Boguski. The two have been brewing together for a while.

“The ability to do something different routinely is a big part of the appeal of a brewpub, rather than a production-style facility,” Dilger said. “A pub gives us the ability to make a beer just once.”

Dilger expects to start with six beers when the pub opens, but plans to cycle through the full spectrum of brews, everything from German-style lagers to American wild and Belgian ales.

He said he is also open to offering experimental beers, like a chocolate salted seaweed beer he’s brewing for a local beer competition.

“We looked in both Portland and South Portland, but we really found what we were looking for in South Portland, and we realized what a great community it is,” Julia Dilger said.

Several people suggested the Dilgers look into buying property in Portland’s East Bayside neighbourhood, “but in terms of wanting to be a pub in a really walkable community, South Portland was exactly what we are looking for,” Craig Dilger added.

Dee Taylor, of Sawyer Street, who said she walks in the Knightville neighbourhood all the time, said the beer was delicious. “This is exciting. I think it’s a great idea. […] it will draw people here,” Taylor said.


09 October, 2015