Baltimore Craft Beer Festival 2019


On Saturday November 2nd I attended the Baltimore Craft Beer Festival with my friend Dominic, who is one of the founders of Baltimore Beer Week. I'd been to the BCBF a few times before but never created a website for it.

It was a beautiful fall day - a bit chilly but the sky was blue and the leaves were turning color. We arrived in Canton before 1:00, and since general admission entry wasn't until 1:30 (VIP entry was at noon), we stopped at Mahaffey's Pub for a pregame beer. The place was already crowded in the early afternoon. It's so popular that some of the members of its 100 Beer Club have consumed thousands of beers.

We walked to the festival at Canton Waterfront Park. There were more breweries this year than ever before - over 50. With more than 100 beers to choose from we didn't have time to sample them all. Here are the ones I tried. Dominic tried most but not all of these because there was a bourbon tasting area, so he went over there for a while.

  1. Raven The Cask
  2. Guinness IPA
  3. Reckless Illustrious Buddha
  4. Reckless Festbier
  5. Heavy Seas Siren Noire (good)
  6. Manor Hill Right Brain
  7. Manor Hill Left Brain
  8. Pooles Island Green Dragon Triple IPA
  9. Pooles Island Fog Lifter Hazy IPA (bad)
  10. Pooles Island Le Blanc Fort (beer/wine hybrid)
  11. BC Brewery Raspberry Flamingo
  12. BC Brewery Cantaloupe Sour
  13. BC Brewery To Helles Bock Again
  14. BC Brewery Momo IIPA
  15. Black Flag Choice Nugs Hazy IPA
  16. Black Flag Anti-Dentite
  17. Hysteria A Dark and Hazel Fortnite
  18. Hysteria Happy Little Accident: Pomberry Passion
  19. Ministry of Brewing Fresh Flannel Wet Hop Saison
  20. Ministry of Brewing Lady Day Pale Ale
  21. Nepenthe Beebweepa
  22. Nepenthe Space Jellyfish
  23. Duclaw Retribution
  24. Antietam Blind Ambition
  25. Steinhardt Orange Punch
  26. Steinhardt Kriek
  27. Steinhardt Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  28. Milkhouse Peach Fieldhand
  29. Milkhouse Red Eye Porter
  30. Smoketown German Crossing
  31. Smoketown The Patsy
  32. Idiom What's the Scoop
  33. Idiom Cosmic Debris Double NEIPA (nice)
  34. Red Shedman Mad River
  35. Homaide Fight Milk
  36. Homaide James and the Giant Peach
  37. Homaide Honey Bunches of Beer
  38. Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter Aged in Whisky Barrels
  39. Flying Dog Foeder Aged Flanders Red
  40. 1812 It's All About the Phil
  41. Baile Cask & Kettle Cannonball Comin' Imperial Stout
  42. Olde Mother Impressionist IPA
  43. Olde Mother Coconut Chocolate Stout (cask)
  44. Monocacy Hyperion's Chaos
  45. Brewer's Alley IPA
  46. Jailbreak Little Punisher
  47. Joyhound Pincer
  48. Inverness There's Always One
  49. Independent Crushing Day (good NEIPA)
  50. Independent The Juice is Loose (good)
  51. Independent Personal Space Invader
  52. Inverness Currantly Crazy
  53. Ruhlman Mad Cow Sour Milk Stout
  54. Monument City Bulls-Eyes
  55. Heart and Solar Farmhouse Ale
  56. Wistful IPA
  57. Wistful Saison
  58. Full Tilt Hakuna Mahopa IPA
  59. Crooked Crab Ghost Master Flex
  60. Brookefield Beer Farm Fall Colors on Cinnamon (cinnamon in a randall)
  61. Gypsy Tripel Barrel
  62. Calvert Dankity Skankity (10% ABV)
  63. Oliver Bmore Hazy
  64. Waredaca Winslow
  65. Key Irreguardlessly
  66. Union Cold Pro (Old Pro with cranberries and cinnamon)
  67. Union Divine
  68. Union Chessie (12.3% ABV barleywine)
  69. Peabody Heights Astrodon
  70. Peabody Heights Werk (nice DDH DIPA)
  71. Falling Branch Black Market Imperial Stout
  72. Denizens Chapless Horseman
  73. Brawling Bear Brown Ale
  74. 7 Locks Fall Line Flanders Red
  75. Franklin's Weizenbock
  76. True Respite Nightingale
  77. Silver Branch My Alien Robot
  78. Astro Lab Peekaboo
  79. Cult Classic Tarantula Exploration Point
  80. Maryland Beer Company Double Trouble (meh)
  81. Mully's Hazy Not Lazy


Afterward we came back to Dominic's place and then had dinner at Ledo Pizza with his girlfriend Lisa. A great day and evening.