Baltimore Beer Week

Key Brewing has their 8th Anniversary Weekend coming up October 20th-22nd

Come see Black Falls kick-off the Key Brewing 8th Anniversary Weekend Extravaganza!

Friday 10/20/23 – Black Falls Band 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Saturday 10/21/23 – Farmers Market & Farm Brewery 8th Anniversary Celebration 3:00pm – 7:00pm. Live music 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Key Brewing - 2500 Grays Rd. Dundalk, Md. 21222

Here's an event you might be interested in... The SPBW 'Society for the Preservation of Beer from the Wood' promotes cask conditioned beer. Naturally Carbonated and usually served at the appropriate temperature which preserves the flavors and nuances of a well crafted beer. Attend the event, try the cask conditioned beer and see if you would like to join the SPBW. Dues are only $15 per year. Monthly events as well as several special events during the year."

February 2023 SPBW Chesapeake News

This month's meeting will take place at Park Tavern in Severna Park , They will have on hand a Cask Conditioned pin of Oliver Brewing Company's Cherry Blossom Ale. This is a 5.6% Cherry Wheat Ale which is always excellent when they release it this time of year. A large choice of great food is available at the Tavern too.

WHEN: Thursday, February 9th, 5PM - 9PM (both earlier and later, to suit everyone's schedule!)

WHERE: Park Tavern 580 Ritchie Hwy, Severna Park, MD 21146

January's Meeting in the books!.

At last months meeting we had a great turnout at Victoria Gastro Pub in Columbia with over 30 people attending and1 new member. We finished the pin in record time as the final members to arrive just barely got a taste of the Mild Manor Ale with toasted beech spirals.

Special SPBW promoted event Saturday February 11th.
Barks Puppymoon
Cask Celebration @ Charm City Meadworks
Saturday February 11th Noon - 5pm
400 East Biddle Street, Baltimore MD

Fresh off their union at the BARCS 2nd Annual Dog Wedding, Lily and Nugget invite you to celebrate their honeymoon at Charm City Meadworks!

Free Entry! Dog Friendly! Human food available!

A portion of drink sales will be donated to BARCS.

The Casks and drafts will be:
Brewer's Art - A pin of sessionable Belgian-ish pale ale (pilsner base with light malt and flaked wheat), 5% abv, modestly bittered with Sterling, finished with Amarillo and Nugget, fermented with Abbey Ale yeast lightly dry hopping with Amarillo. Also a sixtel of a Foeder aged crystal rye lager with a little bit of Brett. funk in it, quite delicious and 5.7% abv

Olivers- A sixtel of Duel Of the Iron Mic - 8.5% Double IPA w/ Citra Incognito and Mosaic and a Pin of Cherry Blossom w/ White Chocolate Chrissy Murphy and Jason Williams are the contacts

Mystique Barrel Brewing and Lager House-a new Baltimore-based startup (Les White is a part of this) specializing in barrel aged, mixed fermentation ales and European style lagers. The Cask will be a Session Porter....

Charm City Meadworks - A pin of Honeymoon and a sixtel of Hive Society draft.

Food and Catering from Les White.
Call for Volunteers!
SPBW would like to help this benefit for Barks. We are looking for 4 or more (split shifts) to pour the beer. Contact Steve Marsh if you would like to volunteer at [email protected]

For more information about the Barks Event Click here
Membership Renewal and More!

We'd like to thank all those who have renewed. If you have not renewed, please do. We depend on dues to operate the Society.

We're holding the line on club dues, keeping them at just $15 for the year! Dues may be paid in person at club meetings by check or cash, or via PayPal to [email protected]

Greetings,

Baltimore Beer Week is no longer in operation; however, our old friends from the SPBW are reaching out to renew and gain interest in their unique quest of promoting Real Ale. Anyone interested can show up this Thursday at Victoria's Gastro Pub where a firkin from Manor Hill will be served. The Chesapeake Bay Branch is the only US branch and was started back in 1997. They hope to see you as they look to spread the love for Cask Ale.

Checkerspot Brewing this Sunday from 12 to close...Oktoberfest with German Foods, great beer and live music from Baltimore's own Black Falls Band. Just south of M & T Bank Stadium. The Ravens game will be on with sound. All outdoor event with plenty of room for distancing.

This Sunday, we'll be doing a full band show for Checkerspot's Oktoberfest. The Ravens 1pm game will be on with sound and we'll do a quick halftime set and then start right after the game. This is such a cool spot next to M&T Bank Stadium on the south side under the 395 overpass. With colder weather coming, there won't be too many more outdoor shows so come on out and do your Sunday, funday.

To anyone still looking at this account, tomorrow's TV show focuses on the transfer of Ellicott Mills Brewing Co. to Phoenix Brewing, with the owners of the twice-flooded Phoenix Emporium taking the reins!
8 PM on Fox 45 Baltimore and other Fox stations!

‘It’s going to be an emotional episode’: TV special featuring Ellicott City makeover by Gordon Ramsay to air Tuesday A two-hour special episode of “24 Hours to Hell and Back,” featuring celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay renovating three Ellicott City businesses, airs Tuesday night on FOX.

Our good friends at the SPBW are doing a great local bus trip this Saturday. Click for details and grab a ticket and learn about cask beer at the same time

SPBW 2019 Bus Trip Get on the bus! We're doing another bus trip. This year we start and end at the Snowden River Park & Ride in Columbia, MD. Intersection of Snowden and 175. Destinations: Sapwood Cellars, Columbia, MD Full Tilt Brewing, Baltimore, MD BC Brewing, Hunt Valley, MD Falling Branch Brewery, Street, MD

https://www.capitalgazette.com/lifestyles/ac-cn-naptown-pint-20190924-jgwdonhkmjebfi56bg5be7347e-story.html

Naptown Pint: As we say goodbye to beer weeks, what’s next? Baltimore Beer Week is not the first to fall in Maryland. Both Maryland Beer Week and our very own Annapolis Beer Week events are distant memories, as they ended their runs years ago.

https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2019/09/17/baltimore-beer-week-ends-after-10year-run.html

Baltimore Beer Week ends after 10-year run - Baltimore Business Journal "It seems its beer week every week nowadays," the event's founders wrote on Tuesday.

Farewell Baltimore Beer Week

Release Date: 9/15/2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Bon Voyage, Adios, Sayonara… with bittersweet sentiment we announce today that there will not be an “official” Baltimore Beer Week in 2019…
Over the past 10 years we have been working with dedicated businesses and organizations to bring Baltimore Beer Week to life with hundreds of beer-centric events that focus on beer culture, culinary aspects, meet and greets, homebrew demos and beer history every October. All in the name of seeking to increase people’s awareness of all things beer in the famed “Land of Pleasant Living.”

So much has changed in the past 10 years – in 2009 when we started there were less than 25 breweries in Maryland (there are currently 75+ breweries operating in the state – with more in the planning stages). Nationally there were 1,653 breweries operating across the country in 2009… there are currently 7,500+ breweries pumping out liquid in 2019!

We, the dedicated volunteers who have organized Baltimore Beer Week year after year, feel we have far exceeded our wildest dreams of reaching and honestly surpassing the mission we set out to achieve – Beer culture and awareness in Baltimore has never been more wide-reaching or pervasive! It seems it's beer week every week nowadays!

We can’t tell you how proud we are of just how much has been accomplished over these past 10 years – Thank you to everyone who supported our unwavering efforts along the way! We truly hope that the support for beer culture continues to thrive in Baltimore for years to come!

Feel free to reach out with questions or thoughts at any time…
Cheers, Joe Gold & Dominic Cantalupo
[email protected]
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The Baltimore Beer Week crew regrets to report the passing of Baltimore beer historian Joseph C. “Turkey Joe” Trabert, a former Fells Point bar owner who passed away Thursday at his Northeast Baltimore home. He was 83.

Former Fells Point bar owner Joseph C. 'Turkey Joe' Trabert dies "Turkey Joe" Trabert, former Fells Point bar owner and local personality, dies at his Northeast Baltimore home.