Tag Archives: Active Beer Geek

Coaster Critique: Sebago Brewing Co. Simmer Down

Name: Simmer Down Brewed By: Sebago Brewing Company Style: Summer Session Ale ABV: 4.9% Pours an orange-copper color that shimmers gold when held to the light, pour raised a short off white head that left fine lacing down the glass. Malt aroma comes through as lightly toasted grains; hops are dominating though, fresh squeezed orange […]

The Maine Dream Team-up Project: Conclusion

The Maine Dream Team-up Project has officially come to a close, a fifteen day blog series that asked seventeen different, beer minded individuals, four questions about who they would like to see collaborate on a beer. In return I received a total of 74 different dream collaborations that consisted of 25 different Maine breweries, 29 […]

The Maine Dream Team-up Project: Benjamin Moore

Benjamin Moore is a craft beer blogger based in Southern Maine, his blog Active Beer Geek is dedicated to craft beer and fitness. Ben is a communications student at USM and VP of USM Enactus, Host of #BeerChat every Thursday night at 9pm EST on Twitter, a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, long distance […]

Pub Crawling around Portland

I rarely have the opportunity to check out the bars in Portland, Maine, trips down are infrequent and although my wife would love to go out to the bars with me, it’s not my kid’s idea of a fun evening. The tail end of last week I was in Portland for training for work, this […]

Interview: Benjamin Moore of #BeerChat

Benjamin Moore is known online as the ActiveBeerGeek, his beer blog focuses on the Maine beer scene as well as physical fitness, and he also leads a weekly twitter chat called #BeerChat. BeerChat wasn’t started by Ben, it was an existing hashtag that had died out and Ben set out to bring it back to […]