Some get their kicks from champagne, but…

From Staff & Wire Reports

Maine craft brews, we get a kick out of you. As 2022 unfolds, few are better equipped to insinuate a different kind of kick into local brews than Matt Hawes, CEO of Novel Beverage Co. of Scarborough. 

Matt matters in this new industry. He’s psychoactive. The cat was let out of the bag when Novel Beverage partnered with Shipyard Brewing Company to create a non-alcoholic, THC-infused version of Pumpkinhead Ale. Working with Shipyard was “awesome,” Hawes says. “They’re super cool. We’re going to try a 10 mg option next. What we had before was 5 mg.”

Did you work with founder Fred Forsley on the Shipyard project? “Yes, but in situations like this we work with ILS—Innovative Liquid Solutions. They’re the intermediary between us and places like Shipyard and Sea Dog.”

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