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Company That Bottles Maine's Most Popular Liquor To Expand

Susan Sharon
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Maine Public
A Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey bottle found on the ground in Maine in January of 2017.

Boston Brands of Maine - a division of Sazerac, which makes Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey - says it's expanding its Lewiston facility.The company says the $4 million investment will bring about 50 jobs to the region.

Fireball whiskey earlier this year displaced Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy as the Maine's most popular liquor brand. More than a third of those sales were in the small bottles known as "nips," which have come under scrutiny as a major source of roadside littering.

In response, the Legislature added "nips"  to Maine's bottle deposit laws as of this past January.
 

Nora is originally from the Boston area but has lived in Chicago, Michigan, New York City and at the northern tip of New York state. Nora began working in public radio at Michigan Radio in Ann Arbor and has been an on-air host, a reporter, a digital editor, a producer, and, when they let her, played records.