Maryland Medals Win at World Beer Cup

Maryland breweries bring home medals at the 2026 World Beer Cup, with silver finishes in highly competitive categories from a large international field.

Maryland silver medal winners included:

• Scent of a Lesser Stag, BabyCat Brewery (Kensington) — Silver, Fruit Wheat Beer

• Free Drift, Eden Town Brewing Co. (Denton) — Silver, Juicy or Hazy Pale Ale

Comments from the winning breweries

Holy moly!! Moments ago, Scent of a Lesser Stag won the Silver medal at the World Beer Cup in the fruited wheat beer category! This is a huge achievement for our head brewer Phil, our founder Sam - who created the original recipe as a home brewer, and the entire BabyCat team. 🦌🩷🦌 on tap now in both taprooms!

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Still hard to believe we won a @worldbeercup medal last night. 1,644 breweries from 50 countries submitted beers for the competition this year. We were able to medal in a heavily contested category with 90 total entries. Also, we believe that, having only been open for 4 months, Eden Town Brewing is the youngest brewery to earn a WBC medal this year.

Come check out the award-winning Free Drift Hazy Pale Ale or any of the other incredibly delicious beers we have on tap!