An Award-Winning Family Owned Brewery in Maine, USA

Shipyard Brewery USA is based in Portland, Maine, and is a family-owned and run business that brews award-winning beers which are hand crafted by a team of brewers who learned their trade from world-renowned master brewer Alan Pugsley. The team is constantly exploring new brews and innovative and diverse styles of beer at both its pilot system in Portland and at its' 7-barrel system at Federal Jack's Brew Pub in Kennebunk Harbor which is just some 30 miles down the coast from Portland.


Not only does Shipyard Brewery USA brew beers, but it also has its own line of Capt'n Eli's sodas that it makes using 100% natural cane sugars. There are no high fructose corn sugars here, and the sodas are caffeine and gluten free. In addition, the company has an online gift store where it sells baseball caps with the company logo in a variety of different styles and designs along with, as you might expect, a wide range of beer mugs and 16oz beer glasses that you can use to drink their products from. They also sell a Sea Dog sign that you can hang on the wall, and a Shipyard Pumpkinhead LED sign that would look great on any man cave or home bar.

On top of that, Shipyard Brewery USA also has a choice of 19 different T-shirts that you can wear in order to tell people what your favourite brand of beer is, sweatshirts and hoodies, tap handles, ice buckets, bottle openers, growlers, bar signs, a pitcher, ceramic beer steins, and coffee mugs, all with the Shipyard logos and designs on them. They also have a wide choice of gifts such as tote bags, gift baskets, bumper stickers, Pumpkinhead socks, a Main lobster oven mitt, their own soap, and more.

In addition to all that, they also brew beer! You can taste it every day of the week in their Tasting Room which sells flights, growlers, 10oz pours, and packaged product, as well as Capt'n Eli's sodas. There is a rotating offer of core beers and seasonal beers, as well as new beers and pilot beers that they have not yet released on to the market.

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