A city zoning administrator has denied the Allagash Brewing Co.’s request to sell prepackaged snacks – such as chips, popcorn and trail mix – to beer tasters at the company’s brewery on Industrial Way, an area that has become a hotbed for beer enthusiasts who flock to its cluster of breweries to sample and buy fresh beer and ale. An Allagash representative will appear Thursday before the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals to try to have the ruling overturned.
“We’re not trying to expand our business,” said Jill Perry, Allagash’s retail manager. “We’re just trying to be responsible purveyors of alcohol.”
Zoning Administrator Ann Machado said in a Dec. 30 letter to the appeals board that serving food is not allowed in the moderate industrial zone, because it is not an “ancillary use.”
“A tasting room and the retail sale of beer are ancillary uses to the permitted use as a brewery,” Machado wrote. “The sale of pre-packaged food is not accessory to the brewing of beer.”
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