Forsley told Stevoe how he\u00a0grew up in Gray, where many followed the polder mentality of life, doing for others and they would inturn do for you.\u00a0 Forsley also recalls the story of singing “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” the whole way through, twice, while waiting for his mom to pick him up in a snowstorm.<\/p>\n
President and Co-Owner of The Shipyard Brewing Company Fred Forsley joined TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods in the studio to celebrate American Craft Beer Week.<\/p><\/div>\n
Shipyard grew out of the Kennebunkport Brewing Company and Federal Jack’s Restaurant and Brew Pub, which Forsley and his partner Alan Pugsley, began in 1992 as a way to turn around a troubled retail development in Kennebunk, Maine.<\/p>\n
Two years after founding Federal Jack\u2019s, Forsley and Pugsley launched Shipyard Brewing Co. in downtown Portland.\u00a0 The original space, 5,000 square feet, has been expanded several times throughout the years. It\u2019s now 100,000 square feet of brewing, bottling, retail and administrative office space.\u00a0 The brewery recently moved some of its warehousing operations to another site in Portland, which has freed up enough space for future expansion. The brewery plans to turn out roughly 150,000 barrels of beer this year, and currently distributes its beer in 34 states.<\/p>\n
The business has grown to encompass much more than beer. Forsley and his cousin Bruce Forsley, Shipyard\u2019s director of sales and marketing and part owner of the brewery, also own restaurants, brewpubs, a line of soft drinks, and even a wine importer.<\/p>\n
Forsley is also president of the Maine Brewers Guild, a non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the craft brewed industry in Maine.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods describes President and Co-Owner of The Shipyard Brewing Company as the “Kevin Bacon” of Maine, where everywhere he goes someone knows him. The two also discussed Shipyard’s recent expansions, as well as Forsley’s Skype session with Senator King. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}