{"id":2530,"date":"2014-03-26T14:21:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T14:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2015-11-16T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:48:19","slug":"luke-livingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/luke-livingston\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 104: Owner, Founder & President of Baxter Brewing Company Luke Livingston"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a0104
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, March 22
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Luke Livingston
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Luke Livingston, Owner, Founder & President of Baxter Brewing Company\u00a0<\/a>grew up in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine community.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Livingston decided to return home after attending Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he received a Bachelors degree in Communications & Culture. \u00a0Livingston developed an obsession with fine beers and began brewing his own in his college dormitory.\u00a0 This obsession led to the successful online beer journal, BlogAboutBeer.com, which he authored for nearly four years.<\/p>\n

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Livingston told Stevoe how when he turned 21 years old his family bought him a brewing a kit and the rest is history.\u00a0 In January 2009, Livingston took the leap of faith to sell BlogAboutBeer.com, leave his day job, and publish a business plan that would later become Baxter Brewing Company.<\/p>\n

Baxter Brewing Company is an eco-conscious brewery that is the first in New England to package 100% of its beer in metal containers only \u2013 aluminum cans and stainless steel kegs. Baxter shipped its first case of beer in January of 2011. When demand for the company\u2019s beer exceeded production capability, Livingston raised an additional $100,000 for an August 2011 expansion that doubled capacity.<\/p>\n

Named the \u201c2011 New Brewery of the Year\u201d by BevNet Magazine, today Baxter Brewing Co. employs 19 people, with plans to further add to its workforce in 2014. The company grossed over $1 Million in their first year, and brewed a total of 5,040 barrels of beer in their first full year of production. A feat recognized later as a record for first year production in the U.S. craft beer industry.\u00a0\u00a0 In March 2014, the company completed a 400% production expansion project in Lewiston which cost nearly $2 Million.<\/p>\n

Livingston was named one of Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” Most Influential Entrepreneurs Under 30 Years Old in the Food & Beverage category for 2011.\u00a0 In 2012, Livingston was named named to MaineBiz Magazine’s “Next List” of 20 people shaping the future of Maine’s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods recently sat down with Owner, Founder and President of the Baxter Brewing Company. The two discussed what blogging taught Livingston about breweries and how he learned what he wanted to do with his own brewery. They also talked about the hierarchy of the beer industry and how the craft beer segment is rapidly growing. 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\/2530"}],"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=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}