Supply-chain issues have further driven up the price of carbon dioxide, which is used in several aspects of brewing.
Food
Food, dining and restaurant news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
The Wrap: Common Ground Country Fair returns to Unity next month
Plus, Nosh changes hands, Slab’s frozen pizzas hit Hannaford shelves, volunteers at St. Peter’s pump out 7,000 cookies for its annual Italian Bazaar this weekend, and more.
Demand for grocery delivery cools as food costs rise
Grocery delivery saw tremendous growth during the first year of the pandemic.
Vegan Kitchen: More plant-based foods partner with pop culture icons
Younger generations are more interested in vegan foods, and marketing professionals have taken notice.
Maine Gardener: Strategic weeding can help make it a manageable, even mediative, chore
Keeping weeds from going to seed and always having a trowel on hand are starters.
Keeping it wild for Wild Blueberry Weekend in Maine
Dresden organic blueberry farm hosts visitors, bees.
This brewer is determined to make the world’s 2 best lagers in Biddeford
Brienne Allan, who accidentally started a movement after posting about sexism in the brewing industry, is starting fresh in Maine with her niche brewery, Sacred Profane, opening this month.
Maine Gardener: The thing about gardening? There are always surprises
This week it was the berries on the potato plants. You read that right: potato berries.
Patience and improvisation are keys to cooking over campfire
Girl Scouts and a Registered Maine Guide offer tips for making meals in the great outdoors.
Green Plate Special: A Limington farm is making labne, a Middle Eastern yogurt cheese delicious no matter how you spell it
Try labne as a spread with bread and olive oil or in an Israeli couscous salad.