Maine Beer Company

When you enter the tasting room at Maine Beer Company, look up! There’s a 50 foot long fin whale skeleton suspended from the rafters above the bar area.

This whale skeleton, named Finny, was collected in the fall of 2024 by students and staff at College of the Atlantic Allied Whale and was preserved and articulated by Dan DenDanto of Whales and Nails. 

The installation was made possible because of Maine Beer Company's longstanding nonprofit giving program.  In 2009 their first-ever 1% for the Planet nonprofit donation was sent to Allied Whale and so began a long giving partnership.  In fact, Lunch, their popular IPA, is actually named after a whale that was first spotted in 1982 off the coast of Maine (and was catalogued by their photo ID project).Finny isn't Lunch, but her skeleton does represent a unique way for visitors to learn about marine mammals while enjoying a beer.