Baltimore Craft Beer Festival 2021


After skipping a year due to the pandemic, the Baltimore Craft Beer Festival returned on Saturday November 6th. Dominic, Kent, and I arrived in Canton early and went to Mahaffey's Pub. The two of them had a pregame beer; I did not, given that I would be assaulting my liver all afternoon.

We walked to Canton Waterfront Park. As in 2019, it was a beautiful, somewhat chilly fall day with blue skies and the leaves turning color. There were close to 50 breweries, all from Maryland. Here is what I sampled:

  1. Inverness Rye on a Buffalo
  2. Inverness Jockey Juice
  3. Heart and Solar The Ladies Man
  4. 7 Locks Surrender RyePa
  5. Lone Oak Farm Haystack
  6. Mococacy Ethereal Dreams
  7. BC Brewery Ceal Team Stout
  8. Streetcar 82 Fancy Nancy
  9. Astrolab Fresh As
  10. Joyhound Beer Company Foggy Harbor
  11. Checkerspot Megamaroo
  12. Mully's IPA
  13. Calvert Motueka IPA
  14. Red Shedman Hazy Cosmic Punch
  15. Cult Classic Uforia
  16. Guinness Smoked Brown
  17. Manor Hill Hand to the Plow
  18. Manor Hill Dark Side of the Moo
  19. Independent Half Past Nein
  20. Independent Crushing Day
  21. Black Flag Mallow in the Barrel (11.8% ABV stout; favorite beer of the day)
  22. Guilford Hall Baltimore Pils
  23. Guilford Hall Lager
  24. Nepenthe Inescapable Fate
  25. Nepenthe Phantom Scream
  26. Waredaca Sampson
  27. Union Divine
  28. Heavy Seas Joose Cannon
  29. Abbeywood Public Lands
  30. Monument Sobo Southbound
  31. Abbeywood Black Label (very good)
  32. Idiom Generational Gap
  33. Ministry of Brewing Imperial Wispy
  34. Steinhardt Orange Haze
  35. Charm City Meadworks Elderberry
  36. Mobtown The Doctor Says I'm Hazy
  37. Ten Eyck Headsplitter
  38. Ten Eyck Side Dish
  39. Full Tilt Here's to the Night
  40. Full Tilt No Stringz Attached
  41. Maryland Beer Company Wild Haze
  42. Maryland Beer Company Jess's Black Heart
  43. 1623 Aquahop
  44. Smoketown Omar Comin
  45. Evolution Day Trader
  46. Pub Dog Vermont IPA
  47. Pub Dog Unleashed IPA
  48. Pherm Get on the Bus
  49. Pherm I Just Wanna Fly
  50. Pherm Mallow Out
  51. Gypsy Rauchbier


Afterward we dropped Kent off, then Dominic and I hung out at his place until the wee hours and had Indian food.