
Historic St. Mary’s City BeerFest
Historic St. Mary’s City annual BeerFest features music by local bands, food from local cuisine, and a variety of regional craft brews.

1812 Farm Brewery 8 Year Anniversary
Join 1812 Brewery in Cumberland MD on the spacious farm patio as they 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

Beer and BBQ Stroll
Enjoy local brews, live music, vendors and delicious food al fresco! Live entertainment featuring Jimmy, Kenny and The Pirate Beach Band on the Library Stage.

The Bruery's 12 Days of Christmas IN JULY
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.

Western Maryland Craft Beverage Festival
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.

Maryland Microbrewery Festival
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.

Good Beer Festival
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.

Shore Craft Beer Fest - Octoberfest
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!

Sykesville Craft Beer Festival 2025
Enjoy unlimited sampling of over 50 beers from an AMAZING brewery line up, live music, food trucks, and artisan vendors in beautiful historic Sykesville.

DC Beer Fest
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.

Quad State Beer Fest: SHAMROCKED! 2025
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!

6th Annual Winter Cask Classic at Denizens Brewing Co
The 6th Annual Winter Cask Classic is back on Saturday, February 22 from 1-5 pm at Denizens Brewing Co. Come enjoy delicious cask beer from some of your favorite local MD, DC, and VA breweries. $40 gets you in the door, plus a souvenir glass, and unlimited cask beer. You can buy tickets in advance or at the door. Food and other drinks will be available for purchase.

Love on Tap 2025
12 local breweries will be pouring at the Love on Tap event, including Fin City Brewing Company, The Buzz Meadery, Burley Oak Brewing Company, Evolution Craft Brewing Company and Big Oyster Brewery.

Dark Hearts Beer Festival III
On February 15, 2025, we at 5th Company Brewing will be holding our THIRD annual Dark Hearts Festival -- which is our Valentines celebration of all things Dark Beer. Porters, Stouts, and other specialties all await you, as we feature a showcase of dark beers from local and regional breweries, and ourselves!

Hyper Local BREW FEST 2025
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!

Easton Beer Fest: Stews & Brews 2025
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!

Belgian Beer Festival 2025
Mark your calendars and save the date! 21st annual belgian beer festival at Max's Taphouse is coming.

Love Thy Beer (CANCELLED)
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.
Hub City Brewery Grand Opening
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
Shore Craft Beer and Beverage Fest
Shore Craft Beer Fest At The Cambria Hotel
Event Details:
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!
EVO Oyster Fest
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!

Burley Oak Controlled Chaos 2024
Controlled Chaos - Year 3 - Animal House!!
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!
Greater Maryland Beer Festival
Greater Maryland Beer Festival
$43.00
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!
7th Annual Patterson Park BrewFest
Join Friends of Patterson Park for the 7th Annual Patterson Park Brew Fest. Enjoy live music, local food trucks and restaurants, a family zone, and over 40+ local brews. All proceeds benefit the Friends of Patterson Park.
Date and time
Saturday, November 9 · 12 - 4:30pm EST
Location
Patterson Park Bull Circle
27 S Patterson Park Ave
Baltimore, MD 21231
Show map
Refund Policy
No Refunds
About this event
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.
2024 DC Beer Fest
2024 DC Beer Fest
Date and time
Saturday, November 2 · 12 - 8pm EDT
Location
Nationals Park
1500 South Capitol Street Southeast Washington, DC 20003
Refund Policy
No Refunds
About this event
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
Baltimore Craft Beer Festival
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.
Sykesville Craft Beer Festival
Sykesville Craft Beer Festival
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.
Snallygaster 2024
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 Hops & Harvest Festival
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
Good Beer Festival At Pemberton Park
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.
Das Best Oktoberfest - Baltimore
NEW THIS YEAR…
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.
AND AS ALWAYS…
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.
Maryland Microbrewery Festival
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
Rocktobierfest
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.
Event Information
Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Rockville Town Center
Frederick's Oktoberfest
An Authentic German Experience
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.
Shore Craft's Octoberfest OC
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.
OktoBIERfest 2024 at Max's Taphouse
OktoBIERfest 2024
SepTEMBER 20 - 22
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.
Maryland Beer & BBQ Festival
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!
Blessing of the Combines
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.
Western Maryland Craft Beverage Festival
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!