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Posted on Feb 10, 2010 by Kathleen |
Peak Organic is one of the top organic craft brewers in the country, so it’s no surprise that it’s on the list of best breweries to visit if you’re in the Portland, Maine area! Here is a tasty excerpt from The Atlantic online magazine’s article on the subject:
North of downtown, near the shore of Back Cove, is Peak Organic, one of the country’s best-known organic brewers. Brewing organically is trendy but almost impossible to do right. Not only does a brewery have to invest heavily in new equipment, but it also has to pay up to 50 percent more for organic malt and search the world over for reliable supplies of organic hops (Germany and New Zealand being the best sources right now). Not only is this expensive and time-consuming, but it limits the range of available ingredients—there’s no large-scale organic producer of the resinous hops found in the Pacific Northwest, for instance.
And yet Peak made a go at it in the late nineties, and it’s done pretty well. I was skeptical, having had more than my share of tasteless yet “eco-friendly” alternative foods over the years, but I’ve yet to have a bad beer from Peak. A few—particularly the King Crimson Imperial Red Ale—are absolutely stunning, with round, bold flavors and a long, smooth finish, and none of the thin, cloying tastes that plagued early organic brews.
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