{"id":22162,"date":"2022-09-21T18:09:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T22:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22162"},"modified":"2022-10-18T10:57:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:57:20","slug":"belle-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/belle-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Belle  Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23ededed&amp;d=final_oct22_flipbook_-_reduced&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=68&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Finding love on Cove Street.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>BY JEFF LYONS &amp; JASON SINGER<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\nM<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aine is a very proud state. We <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fly<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the 1901 flag on our hats and shirts and coffee mugs. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Portland we have squares, bookshops, museums, restaurants, bars, and statues honoring locally born celebrities like <\/span><strong>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><strong>John Ford<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We support our multi-generational farms and fishermen, labeling tourists and transplants as \u201cfrom away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But even by these proudly provincial standards, <\/span><strong>Belleflower Brewing Company<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is spectacularly locavore. About 99% of their grain is grown, malted, and processed in <\/span><strong>Maine<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They display local art for sale on their walls. The Instagrammable mural on the exterior\u2014voted <\/span><strong>Best Mural<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><strong>Portland Old Port<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s 2022 <\/span><strong>Best of Portland<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> list\u2014was painted by <\/span><strong>Portland<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> artist <\/span><strong>Rebecca Volynsky<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22163\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BelleFlower-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BelleFlower-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BelleFlower-1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BelleFlower-1-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BelleFlower-1-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BelleFlower-1-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BelleFlower-1-620x324.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding love on Cove Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1207],"class_list":["post-22162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-october-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22165,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162\/revisions\/22165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}