Allagash Brewing 2018 Recap

What a year….

2018 is complete. It’s time to recap. Last year brought quite a bit of change for us as a brewery—all of it exciting. To give you an insight into nearly everything that happened last year, we put together the list below. We hope you enjoy it. And thank you again for being with us on this exciting journey.

2018 By the Numbers:

Number of different local nonprofits we supported through our community grant program: 14

Total number of bagels eaten by brewery employees thanks to “Free Bagel Wednesdays”: 5,772

Number of States in which you could find a bottle of Coolship Resurgam in 2018: 17

Number of States in which you could find a bottle of Coolship Resurgam prior to 2018: 1

Total percentage of sales we donated to charity in 2018: 1%

Number of volunteer time off hours taken by our entire company in 2018: 409

Pounds of local, Maine fruit we put into beer: 40,000

Number of Grand Cru Tours conducted: 9

Number of shawarma rotisseries fabricated by our engineering team for a company barbecue: 1

Approximate number of visitors to our tasting room in 2018: 145,000

Approximate number of visitors to our tasting room in 2010: 6,500

Number of taps in our tasting room in 2017: 5

Number of taps in our tasting room in 2018: 17

Amount of money our customers donated to local charities in 2018, in lieu of tips in our tasting room: $40,055.89

Approximate number of pounds of Maine-grown and processed grain we used in 2018: 330,000

Approximate number of pounds of Maine-grown and processed grain we plan to use in 2019: 600,000

Number of pounds of Maine-grown and processed grain we pledged to use, per year, by 2021: 1,000,000

Number of new beers we released: 17

Number of doughnuts and doughnut holes, respectively, given away during beer releases in our tasting room: 1,800, 4,320

Number of Allagash Employees in 2018: 132

Number of Allagash Employees in 1995: 1