Urban Farm Fermentory – Portland, ME

Not really sure what to make of this place. Is it a brewery or is it not? They offer over 30 fermented concoctions but none are made with hops, malt or barley. The closest thing to beer is their gruit which is brewed with botonicles but not your traditional ingredients of hops, malt or barley. Their flights come 5 at a time and there was only 4 gruits on the menu so we picked a 10% ABV mead hoping it would either taste like beer or at least liquior. We choked down the IPA, Forest Ale, Strawberry Amber, Elderflower and of course the Hopped mead. And if the “beers” aren’t weird enough for you, the bathrooms are “gender neutral” so everyone goes in the same, multi-stall bathroom and does their business. I peed in a urinal next to a girl in the stall…..