Courtesy / Mast Landing Brewing Co.
Ian Dorsey
Updated: April 14, 2021
Westbrook brewery Mast Landing to add tasting room, production site in Freeport
Courtesy / Mast Landing Brewing Co.
Mast Landing plans to expand to Freeport. Seen here, Gabe Vickery, a packaging operator, works at the Westbrook production facility.
By Staff
Westbrook beer maker Mast Landing Brewing Co. plans to open an 11,000-square-foot tasting room, brewery and event space this summer at the Freeport Crossing shopping center in Freeport.
Mast Landing’s second branch will occupy two floors and include a 4,000-square-foot private event space, one of the largest in the area, the company said in a news release Tuesday. The site will be open year-round.
Features of the new space will include an all-glass curtain wall and an outdoor area accessible from a garage-door-style entrance. The tasting room will have high-top tables, lounge seating and bar service. The on-site pilot brewing facility will turn out test products that might be developed into wider-reaching production.
The second floor of the facility will convert to the private event space. A culinary partner will occupy an adjacent kitchen, with lunch and dinner menus for the Mast Landing tasting room and a catering menu for private events, according to the release.
Mast Landing already has a tasting room and production facility at 920 Main St., Westbrook.
“Expanding to Freeport is an exciting opportunity, not only to grow the connections that we’ve been building over the past five years, but also to make our mark in the town where we first dreamt up the idea for Mast Landing,” President and CEO Ian Dorsey said in the release.
Dorsey launched the company in 2015, in his garage in Freeport. He named the business after Freeport’s Mast Landing neighborhood. The name dates to the early 1700s when the British navy searched nearby forests for large white pines to make ship masts.
Freeport Crossing is at 200 Lower Main St., just off Exit 20 of Interstate 295 and about a mile from downtown Freeport. A Shaw's supermarket is a major tenant, but there have been numerous vacancies at the shopping center in recent years.
It's one of 15 retail developments in Maine belonging to Chestnut Hill, Mass.-based WS Development.
Mast Landing will serve as an anchor to Freeport Crossing, as WS Development works to diversify offerings there with a mix of companies, restaurants and retail tenants, said WS Development’s director of leasing, Nick Margitza.
Dorsey was recently planning to install additional fermenters and a larger canning line for his growing retail market
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