ORONO and MILBRIDGE, Maine (Could 16, 2024)
– Orono Brewing Firm and Wyman’s have collaborated in crafting the quintessential
style of Maine summer season in each sip – Depraved Maine Blueberry Ale. Not like
fleeting seasonal releases, Depraved Maine Blueberry Ale, or Depraved for brief,
guarantees to be a year-round delight, providing Mainers, guests, and beer
aficionados a perpetual style of the Pine Tree State.
“My first
earned greenback got here from raking wild blueberries in downeast Maine,” stated Abe
Furth, co-owner of Orono Brewing Firm. “Crafting Depraved permits us to pay
homage to my deep Maine roots, and to share that heritage with beer lovers
throughout the state.”
Brewed utilizing
Wyman’s wild blueberries and brewed with a light-weight malt and hop recipe, Depraved
highlights the scrumptious taste of Maine’s official state fruit and affords a
refreshing style at each sip, even pairing nicely with a lobster roll.
“Depraved is
rapidly turning into our second-best vendor behind Tubular,” stated Furth.
“Eating places, bars and shops are excited to characteristic Depraved as a result of it combines
the perfect Maine elements to make a superior blueberry beer.”
Depraved Maine
Blueberry Ale is now flowing on faucet throughout the state, together with Luke’s Lobster
Portland Pier and Geddy’s in Bar Harbor, guaranteeing that fans can savor
the style of Maine wherever their adventures take them.
“The wild
blueberry has been synonymous with Maine for greater than a century,” stated Colleen
Craig, Wyman’s Senior Model and Communications Supervisor. “It’s solely becoming that
we accomplice with one in every of Maine’s high rising industries- craft beer- as we
have a good time our one hundred and fiftieth anniversary and toast to the way forward for wild blueberries.”
ABOUT ORONO BREWING COMPANY
Orono Brewing Firm was based in 2004 by lifelong Mainers who met by way of
the College of Maine. Orono Brewing has steadily grown since 2004 and is now
one in every of Maine’s largest and most well-loved breweries. The brewery employs over
forty individuals, and their flagship Tubular IPA is one in every of Maine’s hottest
beers.
ABOUT WYMAN’S
Based mostly in Milbridge, Wyman’s was based in 1874 by Jasper Wyman and is within the
fourth technology of household possession. Wyman’s is likely one of the world’s main
growers and processors of untamed blueberries, and the nation’s top-selling
retail model of frozen fruit. The corporate owns 55,000 acres of land all through
Maine and Canada and works with accomplice farmers across the world. Wyman’s
supplies 300 year-round jobs, plus tons of of seasonal jobs throughout the
harvest. Study extra at wymans.com
ABOUT WILD BLUEBERRIES
Wild blueberries, vaccinium angustifolium, are Maine’s official state fruit.
The low-bush berries took root in Maine 10,000 years in the past, after the glaciers
receded, and Maine is the one state within the U.S. the place wild blueberries are
commercially grown in abundance. Study extra at wymans.com
