Finding love on Cove Street.

BY JEFF LYONS & JASON SINGER

Maine is a very proud state. We fly the 1901 flag on our hats and shirts and coffee mugs. In Portland we have squares, bookshops, museums, restaurants, bars, and statues honoring locally born celebrities like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Ford. We support our multi-generational farms and fishermen, labeling tourists and transplants as “from away.”

But even by these proudly provincial standards, Belleflower Brewing Company is spectacularly locavore. About 99% of their grain is grown, malted, and processed in Maine. They display local art for sale on their walls. The Instagrammable mural on the exterior—voted Best Mural in Portland Old Port’s 2022 Best of Portland list—was painted by Portland artist Rebecca Volynsky.

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