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Sam Adams Infinium is in a league all its own.  Also a category all its own.  Sam adams partnered with Weihenstephan brewery of Germany to create an entirely new beer style while maintaining the age old rule of the Reinheitsgebot. This brewery collaboration resulted in a beer that closely resembles champagne because of its small bubbles and delicate aroma.  Flavoring hops and bottle conditioning ensure that this beer develops a deep complexity but yet soft flavors of light spice and citrus.

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We have a large assortment of wine and beer gift packages -  reasonably priced and ready to go!  Come get them while they last!  Pinot Grigios, Rieslings, Champagne, and many specialty beers.

Wine and Beer Gifts - ( Price range: $12 - $35)

New at Madden Beverage!  The limited edition Dogfish Head Twenty Faithful Ale has hit the shelves.

Following the success of their previous two music + beer collaborations (The Miles Davis “Bitches Brew” and the Robert Johnson “Hellhound”, Dogfish Head has released their latest effort to wake up the music community. Twenty Faithful Ale commemorates Pearl Jam’s 20th anniversary and is available in limited quantities (we could only get our hands on 12 bottles).  Described as an “ale brewed with currants”, this beer is unlikely to disappoint.  Available while supplies last for $11.99.

Come join us for a wine tasting and find one for your Thanksgiving table!

WHERE: Madden Beverage and Brewing Supplies, 335 North Street, Saco, Maine.

WHEN: Saturday, November 19th, 3-6pm

We we will be tasting 8 different wines in all. Below is a description of a few of the ones to be sampled!

Novellum Chardonnay Fresh, crisp and lively, with great apple, pear, peach and fig notes, with a long and clean finish. Just a kiss of oak has an influence on this wine.

Loredona Riesling The 2009 Loredona Vineyards Riesling is a great blen of orange, honeysuckle and white nectarine.  The residual sugars blend perfectly with the citrus notes to bring a balanced and fresh wine as a result.

Voga Italia Pinot Grigio Pinot Grigio is the most popular white wine produced in northern Italy. Voga is full and rich, with fresh ripe apple and pear aromas, and delicious juicy flavors.

Pink Truck Califonia Wine This wine is an intense blend of the most forceful red varietals.  Mourvedre, Grenache and Zinfandel combine to bring out juicy and bright flavors of citrus, fruit and zesty orange.  This is a greatly refreshing wine with unique and complex flavors.

*Pairs well with ham.

Join us on Saturday, November 12th from 3-6pm as we team up with Peak Organic and Bar Harbor Brewing Company to offer a unique selection of Maine beers for Maine Beer Week. This event is taking place in our store at 335 North Street and is free to the public.

Peak Organic is a small craft brewing company dedicated to making delicious, handcrafted ales using only the finest artisanal ingredients.

From Peak Organic we will be featuring their Hops Noir, a delectable Black IPA, dripping with piney, aromatic Centennial hops. The malt base is dark and rich, anchored by organic black malt. This provides a strong foundation for the extravagant kettle hopping and dry-hopping that this beer experiences. Enjoy with a night-light.

Soon, Peak will also be releasing their newest offering, Local ME, which is a collaboration with local farmers to produce a beer using all local ingredients. The recipe will stay the same, but will be created with ingredients only from the state featured on the bottle. Inconsistencies will be attributed only to the differences in local harvests. More on these new offerings here.

Bar Harbor Brewing Company – (Hailing from Bar Harbor, ME) has been producing great tasting and award winning beers for twenty years.  Bar Harbor operates a small brewery and only produces about 8320 gallons of beer per year.

The most likely feature for our tasting this weekend will be the Thunder Hole Ale, a delicious, full-bodied, and complex brown ale. This is the brown ale that beat Newcastle, Sam Adams and more, at the World Beer Championships in Chicago. Cadillac Mountain Stout will most likely be on our table this weekend as well. This thick and full stout maintains great flavors of chocolate and is balanced will with hops.  This beer won World Champion for dry stouts in 1995 and was also featured in Men’s Journal as the best hart to find beer in America.

This event is being offered in tandem with Maine Beer Week, which is running from November 10th to 17th and will feature Maine brewers at various locations throughout Southern Maine. For more information on Maine Beer Week please visit http://www.mainebeerweek.com

21+ only may participate. Proper ID Required.

Win a Landshark adirondack chair!

Summer has come and gone, but we have one final item to give away.  Enter to win this full-size adirondack chair sponsored by Landshark and Madden Beverage. We will be drawing one winner from our mailing list to take home this item, just in time for Thanksgiving!

How do I enter?!

All entries are comprised of our newsletter members!  You can enter up a couple of ways:

• Use the form on the top right of this page to activate your e-mail onto our mailing list, or
• Text us your email address! Text maddenbeverage (one word) to 22828 to get started (yes, it’s really that easy)

Landshark Adirondack Chair - ($200 Retail Value)

How do I find out if I won?

Our givaway winners will be announced in our November newsletter and will be notified by the e-mail provided. You must submit a valid email to enter. Already on the mailing list? Stop right there, you’re already in the running! Our newsletter members enjoy the luxury of being automatically entered to win great givaway items like this landshark chair. Expect the winner to be announced in our November newsletter, which will be published Thanksgiving week.

Good Luck!

No Purchase Necessary. Must be 21 years of age or older to qualify.

Sip the Blood of the Vine and Enjoy!  

Vampire Merlot

Rumor has it that the Vampire Vineyards are actually owned by a circle of vampires, and the company’s founder, an entertainment attorney from New York, is actually just a front. (Whether he and his convertible were commandeered by a Vampire is still a subject for debate.) We do know however that their vineyards have yielded wonderful tight small clusters of grapes that have been skillfully blended by vampire winemakers to produce phenomenal wines – smooth and well rounded, with forward fresh fruit and aged in both French and American Oak Barrels.

Sip the Blood of the Vine and enjoy! – Vampire Vineyards

Madden Beverage has Vampire wines in Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot- $9.99 each.

Dogfish Head has released a special batch of their fabled 120 Minute IPA to distributors along the East coast and we have it at Madden’s! So hurry in to get a bottle before it’s gone!

For those of you who are unaware – Dogfish Head 120 is the pinnacle of IPA’s on the market today. Coming in between 15-20% ABV and with 120 IBUs – this is without a doubt a masterpiece for ” hopheads”!!

For a quick lesson on this beer and the impact of hops, check out the Dogfish Head brewmaster in this quick clip about 120 Minute IPA:

Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA Video Clip

Available in individual 12 oz bottles – $9.99 each.

Want to know exactly when 120 hits the shelves? Find us on Facebook here, or follow us on twitter (@MaddenBeverage) for up to the minute updates on new releases, events and insider specials!

Angry Orchards Ciders is the newest line from Boston Beer Company – the brewers who make the  Sam Adams Beer line. Try it in either the Crisp Apple or Apple/Ginger flavors. Available at Madden Beverage for $7.99 /6-pack.

Hard cider is  also “gluten-free” because it is made from apples (not wheat, barley or rye) and is a tasty alternative to the often unpalatable, gluten- free beer.

Dogfish Head’s Punkin Ale is a full-bodied brown ale with smooth hints of pumpkin and brown sugar. Brewed with  pumpkin meat, organic brown sugar and spices, it is the perfect beer to warm-up with as the season cools.

Punkin Ale is named after a locally-famous and seriously off-centered event  in southern Delaware – Punkin Chunkin where pumpkins are hurled more than 4,000 feet through the air!  

Punkin Ale 4-packs are available at Madden Beverage for $ 8.99.

 Making Punkin Ale: Here Sam Calagione of Dogfish talks about the beer and tells a bit about it’s inception.