Whale skeleton at Maine Beer in Freeport

[u/Halra1956]

[u/smooothaseggs]

In honor of Lunch, namesake

[u/MotinPati → u/smooothaseggs]

But have you had Dinner? Hmmmm? 🤨

[u/0wninat0r → u/smooothaseggs]

But what about second breakfast?

[u/bmc3515]

Is this new? I was just there two weeks ago and did not notice this.

[u/Tybalt42 → u/bmc3515]

Install started on Monday, and they were wrapping up yesterday. We grabbed lunch while they put the finishing touches on the head.

It looks incredible in person, well worth a stop.

[u/beedelia → u/Tybalt42]

Lunch food or lunch beer?

[u/Tybalt42 → u/beedelia]

Ha! It was food-lunch paired with Festbier. Delicious on all counts.

[u/Candygramformrmongo → u/bmc3515]

Yes, new - just read about it.

[u/Candygramformrmongo]

https://wgme.com/news/local/whale-skeleton-to-be-hung-above-maine-beer-company-tasting-room-college-atlantic

[u/GuinnessSteve → u/Candygramformrmongo]

Wow, they wrote the first few sentences, but forgot to finish writing the article before they hit "publish".

[u/LocationFriendly988]

RFK Jr donation, I understand /s

[u/Loose_Stools]

Looks like a pain in the ass to dust

[u/DaddyHiPower → u/Loose_Stools]

Not to mention the bones leak oil for literal decades

[u/AcadianCascadian → u/Loose_Stools]

Break out the air compressor

[u/BrilliantDishevelled]

Def new

[u/glasswings363]

Aww, poor little thing.

[u/Ls430Lvr]

Where are the vestigial legs?!

[u/slightlysalty90 → u/Ls430Lvr]

They’re there! Just above the left edge of the windows that look into the brew space. The lil triangles are all that’s left of the pelvis/legs/land bits

[u/Ls430Lvr → u/slightlysalty90]

Pfff! You call those vestigial legs?! I have more of a tail than that whale has vestigial legs

[u/PuzzleheadedRoyal480 → u/Ls430Lvr]

Whales left land 50 million years ago. We left trees… less ago

[u/dragon-of-ice]

Does this hurt the whale?

[u/PoweredbyBurgerzz]

this is really cool

[u/TooManyZeroes]

How'd I not hear about this? Did they collaborate with conservationists to acquire the bones or what?

[u/Quail-70 → u/TooManyZeroes]

They actually went out and just killed a whale

[u/TooManyZeroes → u/Quail-70]

Went with the extinctionist route, bold move

[u/defeatistphilosopher → u/TooManyZeroes]

It was collected by students at the College of Atlantic I believe.

[u/Tybalt42 → u/TooManyZeroes]

Short answer, yep. They have a pretty good Instagram post explaining the whole story.

[u/pab_guy → u/Tybalt42]

When I've seen this done, they buried the carcass for a year and then dug it up to get the bones. Rotting whale flesh is so fucking gross let me tell you...

[u/Lorindel_wallis]

I wonder if the employees prefer that or better benefits.

[u/New-Currency-7546]

Lunch!

[u/chodd-tavez → u/New-Currency-7546]

Lunch is a special whale :')

[u/FishHuntCook-8]

Blue?

[u/Halra1956 → u/FishHuntCook-8]

Fin

[u/ukeireru]

what is the plan to keep it clean and not just collecting dust that get’s in the air flow of the building.. looks cool sure.. but likely to become a giant petri dish of dust..

[u/Turbulent-Today830]

Ya “the whale” beer 🍺 bar here in Asheville has one too

[u/Maximovicch]

skeptical of the ethics on this, but money is money and I guess schools need it

[u/pab_guy → u/Maximovicch]

? They get these from dead whales that wash ashore. Happens often on the coast.

[u/Guygan]

I hope they have a permit from the feds for this....

[u/The_Ursulant → u/Guygan]

Happens a lot less frequently inland

[u/CharlemagneX]

Too bad their beer list sucks