A tasting tour of Oxbow Blending and Bottling.

By Pete Lyons

More than 200 years ago off the coast of Maine, a bloody sea battle marked by thundering cannon fire took the lives of two rival naval commanders: America’s William Ward Burrows II, 27, and England’s Samuel Blyth, 28. The two—immortalized in the Longfellow poem “My Lost Youth” and honored by the Portland cocktail bar Blyth & Burrows—are buried side by side in Portland’s Eastern Cemetery in a pairing as uneasy as some of the couples we meet on Portland Maine Walking Tours—one thirsting for more of our fair city’s 400-year history, the other just thirsty. Happily Portland’s blessed with more breweries per capita than any city in the country, so for anybody wondering, “Where’s the beer?” the answer’s usually “Right here!” 

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