Our company officially opened in 2013, but it was years of imagining and planning that helped us get here.

After our first trip to Maine in 1993 and finding our first micro-brewery, we knew we wanted to call Maine home. So in 1999, we packed our minivan with clothing, the kid and his dog and headed for Blue Hill.

Wow, what a change! We fell in love with our little rural peninsula with its rich history of fishing, boatbuilding, and farming.

Al continued to home-brew and founded our local home-brew club. We opened our home to community suppers and word spread about the delicious brews we were serving up. In 2012, we started Maine’s first and the nation’s third CSB (community supported brewery). We sold enough shares and ran a successful Kickstarter to fund our opening!

In 2023, we celebrated our ten year anniversary at Strong Brewing. Now in 2024, we are rebranding into Strong’s Public House & Patio with the hopes to bring our local community an authentic public house. To see more about our future vision, see our vision board here.