I feel sorry for our print readers. The poor bastards spend all day trying to hunt down a copy of the elusve Freetie Magazine, only to find that, for the second time in a row, the beercraft column has been bumped for lack of space. Fear not, loyal reader. We’ll still be pumping out our unique and slightly unsavory concoction of great beer, mediocre wit, and poor social skills for many issues to come. This is nothing more than a bottleneck.

Anyway, I’m writing this from the Extended Stay America in Portland, Maine, where I will spend the next two days acquiring an intimate, hopefully biblical, knowledge of the city’s beer scene. Expect news, comment, and increasingly blurry images to follow.

-Mark