Once again, I managed to get into the Opening Tap Ceremony of Baltimore Beer week, and managed to capture video of the event.
A good time for sure, though Duff kind of stuck his foot in his mouth with the Oktoberfest comment — It lasts for 16 days in Germany. I would like to see more homebrewers involved in the opening ceremonies next year, and more grassroots, community involvement as well, but we’ll see what’s required to help make that happen.
BUT you can get all the grassroots you can stomach at the Charitably Charmin’ Chilibrew event at the 2640 Space starting at 6:30 p.m. tonight.
This year’s 
It starts tomorrow, and I am looking forward to all the beers bolded in the list after the jump.
It’s one of those things… brewers, like many hobbyists have a tendency to at least seem like they’re doing less during the long hot days of Summer. I’ve been doing less too, but for a lot longer than the hot months. Between rather unexpectedly purchasing a house, being absolutely slammed with the real life job, and working on 
Max’s recently had its grand re-opening and featured a beer I had the good luck to try last September at the German Beer Fest — and it’s a weird one. I took a fellow Baltibrewer with me late on the grand opening evening and shoved a mug of it into his hand and asked him to tell me what the weird ingredients were.