Dear PoP – Maryland Microbrewery Festival, Sept 25 in Carroll County

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I know lots of folks here, including me, enjoy cold beer so I thought I’d share the following festival from a reader:

“Dear PoP,

I wanted to send you information on the 5th Annual Maryland Microbrewery Festival: http://www.marylandmicrobreweryfestival.com/default.asp?iId=HILHG.  It’s a great opportunity to eat some good stuff, drink some good beer, and get to see a really beautiful part of the state.  It’s $18 for the tasting, which is hard to beat.

It’s happening out in lovely Carroll County this Saturday, September 25.  The leaves aren’t quite there yet, but this is a beautiful place nonetheless.  For those PoP readers who don’t know MD too well, Westminster is just 50 miles straight up north on Georgia Avenue.  There’s a bunch of ways to drive out there, but Rte 29 (aka Georgia) is the simplest and second prettiest (to Rte 27 after you get off I-270 and north of Damascus).

Anyway you get there, there’s lots of good food and beer:

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Food:

• Michael Range – Italian ice.
• Kountry Kafe and Katering – pit beef, turkey, Maryland crab soup, sodas
• Angels Concessions- crab cakes, cheeseburgers, fried shrimp, fish and chips
• Sunrise concessions – submarine sandwiches: cheese steak, Italian sausage,grilled chicken
• The Happy Belly – Fried: oreos, pickles, snickers, milk ways, Mac & cheese, hot dogs, onion rings,ribbon chips
• Rita Murray – sausage, steak subs, corn dogs, blooming onions, funnel cakes,sodas/water
• Aw Boy Fries – AMERICAN gourmet fries
• Westminster Elks lodge #2277 – pit ham and burgers
• Timeout Sports Grille – shrimp salad, crab cakes
• Silver Run/Union Mills Lions Club – hot pretzels,cheese dip,crab dip, sodas, water, coffee
• Buffalo Wild Wings -wings, boneless wings, ribs
• Valley Lions Club – pulled pork, cole slaw, red beet eggs, iced tea,sodas,ice cream sandwiches
• Deer park Lions Club – bratwurst, hot dogs, potato salad, iced tea lemonade, coffee
• Johanssons – raw bar, turkey legs, German sausage

Beer:

• Baltimore Washington Beer Works Baltimore, MD
• Barley and Hops Grill & Microbrewery – Frederick, MD
• Brewer’s Alley – Frederick, MD
• Bawlmer Craft Beers- Baltimore, MD
• Clipper City Brewing Company – Baltimore, MD
• DOG Beverage Company – Westminster, MD
• DuClaw Brewing Company – Abington, MD
• Ellicott Mills Brewing Company – Ellicott City, MD
• Flying Dog Brewery – Frederick, MD
• Johanssons Brewing Company – Westminster, MD
• Olivers Ales – Baltimore, MD
• Red Brick Station / White Marsh Brewing – Baltimore, MD

And I’d combine it with a stop over at Baughers: http://www.baughers.com/.  I think this place has the best fruit in the state.  You can pick your own 10–5 Sat and Sun.  I know this is way outside the normal PoP world, but I thought it might interest some folks.”