{"id":608,"date":"2018-06-12T15:20:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T19:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/?p=608"},"modified":"2018-06-15T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:41:14","slug":"benjamin-m-ridlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/2018\/06\/12\/benjamin-m-ridlon\/","title":{"rendered":"History: Benjamin M. Ridlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ridlon is a bit of a mystery man in the world of historic brewing. He made small quantities of small beer at 61 Elm St., Biddeford in the early 1870s. Not much else is known about him. There are records of a Benjamin M. Ridlon who worked as a joiner in 1877 in Portland but is unclear as to whether this is the same man or not.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-864\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-864 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/files\/2018\/06\/nearby-the-brewer-home.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/files\/2018\/06\/nearby-the-brewer-home.jpg 640w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/files\/2018\/06\/nearby-the-brewer-home-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image is of the Loom Pocker Company building at the corner of Pearl and Elm streets in Biddeford, a few blocks from Ridlon&#8217;s brewing location. Frank Allen, 1873. Biddeford Historical Society Photographs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-608\" data-postid=\"608\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-608 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_crf6404 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full   tb_uzwg048 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module box -->\n<div  class=\"module module-box tb_recm500 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"module-box-content ui  tb_default_color\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tb_text_wrap\"><p>Sources:<\/p><p>Will Anderson, <em>The Great State of Maine Beer Book<\/em> (Portland: Anderson &amp; Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996) 43-47.<br \/>Biddeford City Directory, 1872.<br \/>Portland City Directory, 1877.<\/p><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module box -->\n                    <\/div><!-- .tb-column-inner -->\n                            <\/div><!-- .module_column -->\n            \t    <\/div><!-- .row_inner -->\n\t<\/div><!-- .module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ridlon is a bit of a mystery man in the world of historic brewing. He made small quantities of small beer at 61 Elm St., Biddeford in the early 1870s. Not much else is known about him. There are records of a Benjamin M. Ridlon who worked as a joiner in 1877 in Portland but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7939,"featured_media":864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[921],"tags":[374723],"builder_content":"<p>Sources:<\/p><p>Will Anderson, <em>The Great State of Maine Beer Book<\/em> (Portland: Anderson &amp; Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996) 43-47.<br \/>Biddeford City Directory, 1872.<br \/>Portland City Directory, 1877.<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7939"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}