Mark your calendars and save the date! 21st annual belgian beer festival at Max's Taphouse is coming.
Held in conjunction with the 2025 Chesapeake Fire & Ice Festival throughout the Town of Easton.
Saturday, February 15, 2025, from Noon to 4pm
The Easton Beer Fest is YOUR destination for Great Beer and a Great time. We know you will be looking for something to break the Cabin Fever Blues, STEWS & BREWS is just what you'll need!
STEWS & BREWS sponsored by Easton Liquors will feature 25+ Craft Brewers, Wineries and Distillers like Burley Oak, Harvest Ridge Winery, Lyon Distilling, Other Half (DC), RAR, Ten Eyck. Your tasting glass is your ticket to unlimited tastings. Restaurant / Caterers like Doc's Downtown Grille, The Bagery, Chef Jordan Lloyd and many more will offer samplings of stews and chowders to Festival goers. A tasting glass and stew sampling is included in your General Admission Ticket. Food-only (non-drinking) tickets are available. Restaurants / Caterers will have small plates for sale as well.
Take a break from the cold by viewing ice sculptures and events around downtown. Enjoy the warmth inside the Easton Volunteer Fire Department building, sip on some of your favorite craft beers, fill yourself with mouthwatering stews, shop vendors, enjoy the live music, play a few games of chance and have a Great Time with Your Family and Friends.
The past STEWS & BREWS have SOLD OUT in advance, don't get left out in the cold, get your tickets early!!!!
General Admission: $50.00 ($60 Same Day, if available) includes 12 Noon Entry, tasting Glass, unlimited beer sampling, and stew samples.
Food Only: $20.00, includes stew samples, music, and enjoying the day with friends.
ATM available in the Firehouse
Must be 21 to Enter. IDs Checked before entry.
NO 4 LEG FRIENDS OR STROLLERS PERMITTED (infants in chest carriers are okay)
Location: Easton Volunteer Fire Department, 315 Leonard Rieck Drive, Easton, MD 21601
STEWS & BREWS and the Easton Beer Fest are Hosted and Operated by the Easton Volunteer Fire Department as Fundraising Events
Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 12 PM - 7 PM
Hyper Local BREW FEST '25
Frederick Fairgrounds
797 E Patrick St, Frederick, MD 21701-5999
It's time again for the area's Premier BREW FEST of the YEAR!
Get ready for the ultimate local beer festival, where we'll come together as a community to celebrate and support all of our awesome FREDERICK CITY BREWERIES!
Welcome to the Hyper Local Brew Fest! A Festival your gonna love!
Join us on Saturday, February 15, 2025 at the Frederick Fairgrounds for a full day enjoying the finest local brews, fantastic friends, tasty food trucks, kickin' music, and hip vendors!
Your favorite Frederick City Breweries are coming together in one location to Celebrate BEER and the Frederick Community.
A Brew Fest, By the Breweries!
Deets:
Date/Time: February 15, 2025 from 12-7PM
Locale: Frederick County Fairgrounds, INSIDE Building 9.
Tickets: Ages 21+ $8 Pre-sale tickets or $12 at the door
Ages 18-20 $ 5 or $10 at the door. Ages 17 and under free
Breweries: Rockwell, Olde Mother, RAK, Idiom, Midnight Run, Steinhardt and Monocacy.
Live Music: Let There Be Rock School; Headliner Band TBA
More: Food Trucks; Vendors; Games!
Plenty of FREE parking on-site
Come drink some beer, have some fun, and support your local breweries!
All ticket sales are final. No refunds.
The Biggest St. Patrick's Day Party and True Beer Fest around.. Live Music by SOUTH OF SOBRIETY & SONS OF LIBERTY! 33+ Regional Breweries. 140+ Craft Beers, Ciders, Spirits & Wines. Dozens of vendors, great food, wild games & more!
For Full Details Or Inquiries, Please Visit Our OFFICIAL WEBSITE (Click Here)
NEW RULES IN 2025:
All Attendees Must Be At Least 21 Years Old. No Exceptions.
No Outside Food Or Drinks Permitted (Only Unopened Bottled Water)
Bags/Coolers Must Be Under 12"X12"X18"
This is an all weather event. Make Up Date TBA
The DC Beer Festival returns to Nationals Park, bringing together dozens of craft breweries that will feature spring seasonal beers, plus food trucks, dueling pianos, cover bands, DJs, and more throughout the park.
Historic St. Mary’s City annual BeerFest features music by local bands, food from local cuisine, and a variety of regional craft brews.
All proceeds from this event will help further education and research at Historic St. Mary’s City.
TICKETS GO ON SALE MARCH 2025
Description: Join us on the spacious farm patio as we celebrate 8 incredible years of beers! Live Music ~ Food Trucks ~ Award Winning Fresh Cold Beer & more Saturday June 7 Open 12 Noon to 10:00PM
Date: June 07, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM
Address: 13006 Mason Road NE, Cumberland, MD 21502, United States
Contact Name: M M
Contact Email: CONTACT1812BREWERY@GMAIL.COM
Did you miss drinking the holiday beers in December? Are you craving a sip of the winter season?
Max's Taphouse will be pouring the 12 Days of Christmas Collection by The Bruery just in time for Christmas in July! Mark your calendars to get a taste of the holiday season halfway through the year.
The 2025 Western Maryland Craft Beverage Festival is scheduled for Sunday, August 31st form 12-6pm. More info will be posted as it becomes available. See below for a description of the event.
Join us at Hoffman Park on Sunday, Aug 31st from Noon - 6pm for the 2025 Western Maryland Craft Beverage Festival! This 7th year event is designed to showcase Maryland's breweries, wineries, distilleries, and their products. Festival proceeds go to the Allegany County Animal Shelter, the only “no kill” municipal animal shelter in the state of Maryland. We currently have 30 of Maryland's best breweries, wineries, and distilleries joining us with more being added. They will all be ready to let you sample their best.
Nestled in the woods just 1.5 miles from I-68 on Hoffman Hollow Road, Hoffman Park provides the perfect setting to kick back, relax, and sample some of the best beverages that Maryland has to offer including international award winning spirits, beers, wines, and more from Maryland’s mountains to its eastern shore. Sampling tickets (12) for any beer, wine, or spirit of your choosing are included with ticket purchase. Full-sized versions of your favorite beverages and additional sampling tickets will be available for purchase as well.
The 2024 list of beverage vendors currently includes: Baltimore Spirits Company, Butterfly Spirits, Covalent Spirits, Cushwa Brewing, Clear Skies Meadery, EVO Brewing, 1812 Brewing, Gray Wolf Distilling, Fordham Lee Distilling, Liquidity Ale Works , McClintock Distilling, Meinelschmidt Distillery, Pathfinder Farms Distillery, RAK Brewing, Rosie Cheeks Distillery, Silver Branch Brewing, Stone House Urban Winery, Ten Eyck Brewing, Tenth Ward Distilling Co, Thick N Thin Brewing, and Twin Valley Distillers.
This family and dog friendly event (kids 12 & under admitted free) will feature live music in the amphitheater, food & craft vendors in attendance, as well as kids activities throughout the day. Feel free to bring a lawn chair/blanket/pop up tent, relax on the amphitheater lawn, enjoy some great food, see what our craft vendors have to offer, listen to the music, and sample some world class, award winning beverages made right here in Maryland!
Come join us for the day, support a good cause, and top off your summer and your glass with the best Maryland has!
We are pleased once again to host this unique event to promote Maryland’s microbreweries. The Maryland Microbrewery Festival is the highlight and culminating event of Carroll County Beer Week. This fun-packed festival celebrates and promotes the best of Maryland’s handcrafted and distinctive microbrews. Come join the fun of Maryland’s premier beer festival!
A wide selection of Maryland breweries, each with a variety of different beers to sample.
Food vendors.
Continuous live music and entertainment.
Crafts and unique merchandise vendors.
Seminars to enhance the public’s knowledge of brewing
Historic Site – 16 acres of open, beautifully maintained parkland with easy access.
Ample parking, both onsite and at the satellite parking lot–Park there and carpool!
Adult / beer sampling: $25 (in advance) or $30 (at the door)
Non-beer sampling: $8 (in advance) or $10 (at the door)
Under 12 years: free
Proceeds of the Festival support the Union Mills Homestead Foundation’s ongoing interpretation and preservation of the historic Union Mills site. Please contact us at 410–848-2288 if you require additional information. Thank you for your support!
Tickets are available at the event, or get prepaid tickets in advance on the event website, marylandmicrobreweryfestival.com.
Limited admission: tickets sold on first-come, first-served basis.
Tickets will go on sale mid-to-late August.
If you are planning to drink ANY alcohol at the festival, you must purchase a drinking ticket.
Drinking tickets include unlimited samples and the option to purchase alcohol during the event.
Prices are inclusive of fees.
Early Bird Drinking Tickets: $33
Regular Drinking Tickets: $43
VIPs have access to a separate entry to the festival (skip the line), two pint tickets for full beer pours of your choice, voucher for event shirt (redeemed at official event store), Good Beer Festival pint glass (picked up as you exit the festival) and brewery/event swag.
Non-Drinking Tickets: $13
Attendees purchasing non-drinking tickets will not be permitted to sample or purchase alcohol of any kind, regardless of their age.
Tickets are one day admission only. Purchasers can redeem their ticket on Friday OR Saturday.
Advance ticket sales are online only at the link above. Tickets will not be sold in person at the box office or by phone in advance of the event.
We strongly suggest attendees purchase tickets in advance to avoid lines at the gate. The same fees will apply to tickets purchased online and at the gate.
A valid ID is required at the gate for all drinking ticket holders. Vertical IDs will not be accepted.
The festival is a rain or shine event. There are no refunds or exchanges. Stay tuned to our Facebook page for the latest updates.
Local craft breweries,
UNLIMITED tastings of 40+ different styles of beer, mead, hard tea & seltzers,
live music,
more vendors than ever before,
food trucks, and
commemorative pints for the first 1200 attendees.
4 hours for VIPs and 3 hours for GAs. Kid and pets welcome.
This year, Shore Craft Beer's OCtoberfest has a new date! We are once again at Bayside Park at 3rd Street, with its large grassy area perfect for our festival, with expansive views of the bay, but this year we will hold Octoberfest on November 1st 2025!
LOCATION
St. Louis Avenue between 3rd and 4th Street
Ocean City, MD 21842
Enjoy unlimited sampling of over 50 beers from an AMAZING brewery line up, live music, food trucks, and artisan vendors in beautiful historic Sykesville.
The event is rain or shine.
When: November 8, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Where: Sykesville, MD 21784, USA
TICKETS COMING SOON!!!
NO PETS ALLOWED (Town Ordinance 301, which modified the Town Code. The Town Code reference for the “no pets or animals allowed at Town events is: Chapter 51, Article 1, Sections 51-1 through 51)
FREE shuttle service, thanks to our sponsors! Picking up at Freedom Park and Sykesville Middle School, looping through the nearby “Park and Ride” and taking you to our beautiful Main Street, 11:30 am to 4:30 pm, regular and ADA accessible at both locations.
2024 Headliner – FireKite
Guest tickets come with $10 Main Street Bucks redeemable at your favorite participating downtown shops and restaurants on event day through to the Saturday after the event! You can also redeem your Main Street Bucks at the concession stand to buy domestic beer for $5. Participating stores coming soon!
Love Thy Beer is the Brewers Association of Maryland's annual FeBREWary showcase of locally crafted winter ales and lagers! Fans of malt-forward, winter beers can't miss this event.
The Brewers Association of Maryland will return to the Silver Spring Civic Building for this year's Love Thy Beer tasting event on Friday, February 7, 2025. This exclusive tasting event showcases a huge collection of winter ales and lagers from two dozen Maryland breweries. Attendees of Love Thy Beer are invited to sample from dozens of Maryland-made beers, enjoy lite fare, dance to live music and celebrate local craft beer! Cupid's Curse Pass holders gain early entry (6:00 pm) to this year's event and are invited to enjoy a welcome beer!
Love Thy Beer isn't your average craft beer event. The beers featured at this event are typically limited releases and focus on recipes that are best enjoyed seasonally. Attendance at this event is incredibly limited and attendees are given the opportunity to chat with the experts behind Maryland beer in an intimate setting – all while tasting incredible seasonal ales and lagers and meeting some of our industry's greatest influencers. And to round out the fun, enjoy some delicious lite fare and great live music with your beers!
Breweries attending Love Thy Beer will feature their unique 2025 "Cupid's Curse" entries. These beers are brewed with this event and FeBREWary in mind! Love Thy Beer attendees are invited to VOTE for their favorite Cupid's Curse entry! Each attendee will receive tokens to use to The winning brewery will take home an awesome trophy and earns bragging rights for the next year.
You won't want to miss this! Hub City Brewery's Grand Opening is going to be a BLAST! Come enjoy some beautifully crafted beverages and celebrate with live music - Rays of Violet from 7 -10 pm, delectable food from Diego's World, and a LIVE spiced rum demo with our head distiller (tickets required).
Hub City Brewery
25 W. Church Street Hagerstown, MD 21740
email: gm@hubcitybrewery.com
When: Saturday, December 7th, 2024
VIP: 3 PM – 7 PM
General Admission: 4 PM – 7 PM
Where: Cambria Hotel, Ocean City, MD (on the water!)
Tickets: Limited to 400! Get yours now before they sell out!
Join us for a Shuckin' Good time on Saturday, November 30th for our annual OYSTER FEST for 2024!! LIVE MUSIC is provided by The High & Wides! Unlimited evo craft beer tastings are included along with fresh local oysters on the half shell, single fried oysters, a variety of baked oysters along with a CHILI STATION, our smoked pork & more! Tickets are sold online and available for anyone 21 and older. This is a rain or shine event!
This year we wanted to recreate that Frat party vibe, kicked up Burley Oak style. We have invited some of our great friends to swing by with some of their best craft creations. This will be general admission only. Click the link below to purchase your tickets before they're gone!
We’re throwing a pretty sweet party on Saturday, November 16 right here on Kent Island known as Greater Maryland Beer Festival (don’t read it out loud ‘cause then it kinda sounds like “Great American Beer Festival”, and we don’t want to cause any confusion).
We’re hosting in 23 breweries in honor of our 23 counties (almost all represented) who are each bringing 2 styles of beer for your to enjoy.
The party will run from 12-4pm outdoors under the tent and we’ll have food and all sorts of entertainment including a live game show, music, and a presentation of medals for winning beers based on YOUR voting. Each guest will get a ticket and can put them in the ballot box to vote for best beers, coolest breweries, and best brewery hairstyles.
A ticket is just $43 and includes unlimited samples during the 4 hour extravaganza as well as access to all the ridiculousness.
Assemble your crew and make your vote count!
Saturday, November 9 · 12 - 4:30pm EST
Patterson Park Bull Circle
27 S Patterson Park Ave
Baltimore, MD 21231
Show map
No Refunds
This event is rain or shine and tickets are non-refundable. Kids 16 and under are FREE! For severe inclement weather, the event will be held November 9.
Saturday, November 2 · 12 - 8pm EDT
Nationals Park
1500 South Capitol Street Southeast Washington, DC 20003
No Refunds
The DC Beer Festival finally returns to Nationals Park, bringing together dozens of craft breweries , featuring their spring seasonal beers. Taking place throughout the stadium's concourse including Centerfield Plaza, Budweiser Brew House, Bud Light Loft and Budweiser Terrace, the DC Beer Fest will have over a dozen food trucks throughout as well as lawn games, DJs, and more!
General Admission is $55 with a choice of two sessions: noon to 3pm and 5pm to 8pm. Admissions includes unlimited tastings, with food sold separately. For additional event info, visit www.dcbeerfestival.com
*This is a 21 and over event. This event is rain or shine. Please note that new DC law requires that Nationals Park be a non smoking facility. As such, we've eliminated the smoking section of the event and smoking will not be allowed at the event.
**Tickets are non refundable
The Baltimore Craft Beer Festival Is Charm City’s ONLY Official Maryland Beer Celebration!
String up your pretzel necklaces, put on your best brewery T-shirt, and join your favorite Maryland Brewers at our new location at Baltimore Peninsula!
This annual celebration of Maryland’s growing craft brewing industry showcases more than five dozen local breweries and their awesome portfolios of ales, lagers, ciders, and meads.
Our new waterfront venue features even more space, easier access, and parking!
As always, BCBF will present great live music, local food trucks, shopping from unique vendors and much, much more!
New for 2024
The Maryland Craft Beer Competition Gold Medal Winners Circle and a live presentation of the competition’s Best In Show award.
All Beer Geek (VIP) Passes have the option of purchashing an addtional parking pass. These spots are located directly outside the festival entrance.
Enjoy unlimited sampling of over 50 beers from an AMAZING brewery lineup, live music, food trucks, and artisan vendors in beautiful historic Sykesville.
The event is rain or shine.
When: November 2, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Where: Sykesville, MD 21784, USA
Connect with our Facebook page here.
NO PETS ALLOWED (Town Ordinance 301, which modified the Town Code. The Town Code reference for the “no pets or animals allowed at Town events is: Chapter 51, Article 1, Sections 51-1 through 51)
FREE shuttle service thanks to our sponsors! Picking up at Freedom Park and Sykesville Middle School, looping through the nearby “Park and Ride” and taking you to our beautiful Main Street, 11:30 am to 4:30 pm, regular and ADA accessible at both locations.
Those in the know, know: Snallygaster is the District’s biggest & beastliest beer festival, bar none. And on October 12, 2024 the merry monster makes its triumphant return to DC for its 12th year as a rollicking tribute to the wonderful world of craft beer. Festival goers can expect a mind-boggling selection of no fewer than 450 highly sought-after draft beers, casks, gravity kegs and bottle pours from 175+ of the finest American and international producers set against a backdrop of local food trucks and two stages of live music.
Tickets go on sale right here (and only here) beginning Tuesday, July 9th at 10 am sharp!
Everything else you need to know about the big day you can in our handy-dandy FAQ.
The Hopes & Harvest Festival brings together purveyors of beer, wine, cider, mead, and spirits to Merriweather Park.
Saturday, October 12 · 12 - 5pm
Location:
Merriweather Park at Symphony Woods
10431 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD, 21044
The Good Beer Festival in Salisbury, Maryland, offers unlimited tastings of craft brews, music, games, food and peddlers of crafty and unique items. Friday is the only nighttime beer festival on the Eastern Shore.
For more information on the Good Beer Festival, contact James Simmons
at 410-548-4900 x114 or jsimmons@wicomicocounty.org.
It’s an Olympic Year! Get Ready for DAS VERRÜCKT OLYMPIADE! We’ve build a Sports Stadium inside the show so you can participate in Stein Holding! Fingerhakeln! Tug-of-War! The Carry-Your-Wife Competition! And new this year – WIENER SLINGING! BE THE WELTMEISTER! Win great prizes like THE WURST trophy ever.
Great Centralized Location: the Timonium Fairgrounds. Directly on the light rail or use the totally FREE parking. Get ready to have an UBER GOOD time!
ALL YOU CARE TO TASTE OVER 120 INTERNATIONAL, DOMESTIC, AND LOCAL MARYLAND BEERS, DOMESTIC WINES and SCHNAPPS. All of your favorite craft beers and perfectly paired wines will be served to highlight the great Beer Hall theme.
OOMPAH BANDS and LIVE MUSIC. There will be 2 STAGES. Listen to Live Rock & Party Music on the Main Stage and enjoy Authentic Oompah Bands on the Oompah Stage.
VIP Ticket Experience. This option offers guests 1 extra hour of drinking, a reduced crowd, and a LARGER 16 ounce Souvenir PINT GLASS.
SHOP. Browse Cool Art Exhibits and Craft Exhibits, Brewerania, Beer Accessories, Cigars, and more!
GREAT FOOD. There will be several brat concessionaires who will be offering the best sausages and German food along with food trucks and your festival faves! Enjoy all your favorites! Food will be purchased a la carte.
18th Maryland Microbrewery Festival
Celebrating Maryland Beer and History
We are pleased once again to host this unique event to promote Maryland’s microbreweries. The Maryland Microbrewery Festival is the highlight and culminating event of Carroll County Beer Week. This fun-packed festival celebrates and promotes the best of Maryland’s handcrafted and distinctive microbrews. Come join the fun of Maryland’s premier beer festival!
A wide selection of Maryland breweries, each with a variety of different beers to sample.
Food vendors.
Continuous live music and entertainment.
Crafts and unique merchandise vendors.
Seminars to enhance the public’s knowledge of brewing
Historic Site – 16 acres of open, beautifully maintained parkland with easy access.
Ample parking, both onsite and at the satellite parking lot–Park there and carpool!
Tickets are available at the event, or get prepaid tickets in advance on the event website, marylandmicrobreweryfestival.com. Limited admission: tickets sold on first-come, first-served basis.
Adult / beer sampling: $25 (in advance) or $30 (at the door)
Non-beer sampling: $8 (in advance) or $10 (at the door)
Under 12 years: free
Proceeds of the Festival support the Union Mills Homestead Foundation’s ongoing interpretation and preservation of the historic Union Mills site. Please contact us at 410–848-2288 if you require additional information. Thank you for your support!
Follow the Maryland Microbrewery Festival on Social Media: #MDMBF
The City of Rockville's Rocktobierfest celebrates German culture with beer, bands, bratwurst and more! This free festival includes two stages of live music, food, beer sales by local breweries, an artisan shopping area, and activities for kids. This annual Oktoberfest event attracts nearly 8,000 people to Rockville Town Center.
Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Rockville Town Center
Fredericks’s Oktoberfest is an event rich in tradition and history!
Bratwurst, Oktoberfest beer, German wines, dancing, music, children’s events and much more! And it all benefits Frederick County charities. Spearheaded by the Rotary Club of Carroll Creek, and the Rotary Club of Southern Frederick County this annual event not only promotes cultural exchange, but it also supports both clubs’ efforts in the community to raise thousands of dollars for area non-profits. These are all rain or shine events. Sorry, no refunds.
Friday's event is from 6:00pm - 10:00pm and is an age 21+ only event. Featuring the opening ceremony and keg tapping. Great food, a wide selection of beers, and live music by The Dan McGuire Band. 21+ only event!
Saturday's event is fun for the entire family! Featuring authentic German cuisine, an amazing selection of seasonal beers, live music, kids zone, German heritage tent, and live football games in the sports tent!
For more information, please visit frederickoktoberfest.org This is a rain or shine event, no refunds. No pets permitted, except registered service animals.
Ticket Pricing (price is per person)
Friday, 9/27 General Admission Age 21+: $8.00 advance, $10.00 per person day of event. (age 21+ event)
Friday, 9/27 General Admission Age 21+ with Beer Stein*: $20.00 per person. Advance sales only. (age 21+ event)
Saturday 9/28 General Admission Age 13+: $10.00 advance, $12.00 per person day of event. (all ages event)
Saturday 9/28 General Admission Age 21+ with Beer Stein*: $22.00 per person, advance sales only. (all ages event) Advance sales end 9/27 at 10PM. Steins will be available for purchase inside the event while supplies last.
Saturday 9/28 General Admission, Age 3-12: $6.00 per person in advance or day of event (all ages event)
*stein with ticket purchase will be empty; must be 21 years old to receive stein at the gate. 2024 Stein availability: Stein availability is only guaranteed if picked up by 8PM on the date of ticket. After 8PM, a dated stein cannot be guaranteed.
15+ local craft breweries, UNLIMITED tastings of 40+ different styles of beer, mead and seltzers, live music, more vendors than ever before, food trucks, and commemorative pints for the first 1500 attendees.
4 hours for VIPs and 3 hours for GAs. Kid and pets welcome.
This year, OCtoberfest has a new date and location! We will be one of the first festivals to be held at the new Bayside Park at 3rd Street! The park has a large grassy area perfect for our festival, with expansive views of the bay. There is a huge playground for kids to enjoy during the festival, making it more kid friendly than ever.
IT'S TIME TO FILL DAS BOOT;
OKTOBIERFEST IS COMING BACK!
Join us for dozens of German & German-style biers all weekend long.
Duration: 3 days
Draft list to follow...
This festival is FREE to attend. Must be 21+ to drink.
Get ready to elevate your festival experience at Braglio Farm's Beer & BBQ Festival! Dive into the best of Maryland's BEER & BBQ, and cast your vote to crown the champions!
With a General Admission ticket, you get two tokens: one for your favorite beer vendor and one for your top BBQ pick!
Want more? Grab a Beer Punch Ticket to enjoy free samples from every brewery, and you can still buy full pours even without the punch ticket. After sampling all the delicious brews, place your token at your favorite beer vendor's tent!
BBQ lovers, rejoice! Vendors will be serving $10-15 sample platters of their best meats and sides. Cast your token for the BBQ vendor that tickles your taste buds the most to help decide the winner!
General Admission includes access to all the farm fun: live music by Hat & Hair and The Stone Ridge Boys, local artisan vendors, craft beer & BBQ vendors, spiked drinks, a petting ranch, log playground & kids' dirt track, bonfires & S'mores, Country Market shopping, Sundaes Ice Cream Shoppe, and so much more!
Join us for a day of fun, flavor, and friendly competition at Braglio Farm's Beer & BBQ Festival!
Children 12 and under are FREE; please reserve them a free ticket with your purchase
Absolutely no outside food or beverage will be permitted
Guests are encouraged to bring chairs and blankets for lawn seating
Security will be on site
IDs will be checked upon entering in order to get a wristband, without a wristband you will not be able to sample or purchase alcohol!
Without farms, there would be no beer so we're sending well wishes to our farms and farmers on Sunday, September 8th from 11am-3pm at the Queen Anne's County 4-H Park in Centerville.
A $5 admission will give residents a chance to shake the hands that produce our agriculture, as well as enjoy food & festivities including the Blessing of the Combines. In addition to local food trucks and beer from all five of QAC's breweries: Ten Eyck, Cult Classic, Big Truck, Patriot Acres, and Bull and Goat, we'll have local vendors, music and with any luck, some four-legged friends from the farm. Shore Party Rentals will also host an inflatable zone for the kids for an additional cost.
This is a family friendly event. Children 2 and under do not need a wristband.
The event is rain or shine. All sales are final. We don’t offer refunds or exchanges unless the event is cancelled due to extreme weather.
The 2024 Western Maryland Craft Beverage Festival is scheduled for Sunday, Sept 1st. More info will be posted as it becomes available. See below for a description of the event.
Join us at Hoffman Park on Sunday, Sept 3rd from Noon - 6pm for the 2023 Western Maryland Craft Beverage Festival! This 5th year event is designed to showcase Maryland's breweries, wineries, distilleries, and their products. Festival proceeds go to the Allegany County Animal Shelter, the only “no kill” municipal animal shelter in the state of Maryland. We currently have 30 of Maryland's best breweries, wineries, and distilleries joining us with more being added. They will all be ready to let you sample their best.
Nestled in the woods just 1.5 miles from I-68 on Hoffman Hollow Road, Hoffman Park provides the perfect setting to kick back, relax, and sample some of the best beverages that Maryland has to offer including international award winning spirits, beers, wines, and more from Maryland’s mountains to its eastern shore. Sampling tickets (12) for any beer, wine, or spirit of your choosing are included with ticket purchase. Full-sized versions of your favorite beverages and additional sampling tickets will be available for purchase as well.
Our current list of beverage vendors currently includes: Baltimore Spirits Company, Butterfly Spirits, Charis Winery & Distillery, Cove Point Winery, Cushwa Brewing, Clear Skies Meadery, Dig Deep Brewing, 1812 Brewing, Gray Wolf Distilling, Fordham Lee Distilling, Landmade Brewing, Locust Post Brewery, McClintock Distilling, Meinelschmidt Distillery, Misfit Winery, Mobtown Brewing, Old Line Distillery, Rosie Cheeks Distillery, Rte 40 Brewery & Distilling, Sheree Harvest Winery, Silver Branch Brewing, Six Wicket Vineyards, Stone House Urban Winery, Tenth Ward Distilling Co, Tipsy Teacher Winery, Toasted Goat Winery, Tobacco Barn Distillery, and Twin Valley Distillers.
This family and dog friendly event (kids 12 & under admitted free) will feature live music in the amphitheater, food & craft vendors in attendance, as well as kids activities throughout the day. Feel free to bring a lawn chair/blanket/pop up tent, relax on the amphitheater lawn, enjoy some great food, see what our craft vendors have to offer, listen to the music, and sample some world class, award winning beverages made right here in Maryland!
Come join us for the day, support a good cause, and top off your summer and your glass with the best Maryland has!
Mark your calendars: Max's annual Hopfest dates are set for 2024.
HOPPY A$$ DRAFT LIST AS OF 7.11:
3 Floyds/War Pigs USA Brewing - Interstellar Bonanza
Burley Oak - Fog Delay
Electric Breweing - Self Destructive Destiny
Industrial Arts - Impact Wrench
Kings County Brewing Collective - Fraggle Croc
Maine - Wolfe's Neck
Maine - Dinner
Nepenthe - Odisns Bane
Planted Brewing - Hoya
RAR - Pineapple Habanero Grenade
RAR - Frills
Resident Culture - Static God
Resident Culture - Forever Alone Pineapple Jam
Sierra Nevada - Hoptimum
Spyglass - Exit 1
Spyglass - Laminar Flow Pink
Tired Hands - Crushable Church
Tripping Animals - Synesthesia Cloak
In association with the Brewers Association of Maryland, 30 local breweries on the Guinness lawn.
Check Guinness Open Gate for updates.
Featuring imported and domestic beers, schnitzel, wurst and other authentic German foods, craft and clothing vendors
Entertainment by the Edelweiss Band, Mike Surratt & the Continentals, the Alpenrose Schuhplattler Verein, and Horn’s Punch and Judy Show
Food. Music. Beer. On June 22 bring your friends, an appetite, and an outdoor chair to enjoy one of the best outdoor festivals southern Maryland has to offer.
BeerFest will feature music from local bands, food from local cuisine, and a variety of regional craft brews.
Enjoy a rollicking outdoor festival while helping to further education and research at HSMC.
DrinkMaryland: Centreville - A Maryland Makers Event
Now in its seventh year, the event will be held on Saturday, June 15 from noon to 5 p.m. in downtown Centreville on Maryland’s Eastern Shore on Route 213, a 30-minute drive from the Bay Bridge.
Tasting passes are on sale now! Tasting passes are $20 in advance plus $3.34 in fees.
About 2/3 of our attendees attend the event for free and partake in the live entertainment, delicious food and diverse selection of artisan merchandise.
The event is produced by event partners MWA and the Town of Centreville and is executed by a group Centreville Main Street volunteers and MWA staff and volunteers. The signature event is funded in part through the generosity of its corporate sponsors.
Step into a world of tradition and taste as we invite you to join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating the art of Kölsch-style beer service. Indulge in a unique experience where every pour tells a story.
📅 Event Date & Times:
Friday, June 14, 2024, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Saturday, June 15, 2024, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Saturday, June 15, 2024, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Your ticket grants you access to:
2 (two) 12 oz pours of our signature Elder Pine Brewing & Blending Co Kölsch
Delectable event-themed food to tantalize your taste buds
A gold-rimmed, branded Kölsch glass to take home and cherish
But the adventure doesn't end there! With your refresh card in hand, enjoy the thrill of the Kölsch service experience. Your card entitles you to up to six beer fills throughout the event. Savor the first two included pours, then let your palate guide you as you explore additional refills, each charged at retail price.
Seating is limited, so secure your spot now and join us for a journey through Kölsch culture and community. Tickets are selling fast - don't miss out on this exclusive event!
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