Michael and Rachel travel to Havre de Grace and meet with Lev Shellenberger and Aaron Hopkins. Where the Hopkins family has started a farm brewery on their 100 year old 4th generation family farm.  https://hopkinsfarmbrewery.com/

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Hopkins Farm Brewery

Rachel and Michael visit Eden Perrigo Sales Manager at the Baltimore Spirits Company. They compare the home at the Union Collective with their previous location and talk about future plans. And oh yeah the taste some wonderful spirits.   https://baltimorespiritsco.com/

Baltimore Spirits Company

Rachel and Michael talk about the need to support the local Beer, Wine and Spirit industry this holiday season and beyond. While highlighting some of their local favorites for the holidays. 

'Tis The Season to Shop Local

Rachel and Michael sit down with John Levenberg, and brothers Enrique and Felipe Pallares of The Wine Collective in Hampden. A unique urban tasting room and production facility to try their amazing wines and food, learn about the winemaking process. www.winecollective.vin

The Wine Collective

Rachel and Michael travel to Cecil County and visit with the three generations that run the daily operations of Dove Valley at their 100 acre farm on the Rising Sun country side.  for more information visit their website https://www.dovevalleywine.com/

Dove Valley Vineyard

Rachel and Michael travel to the first brewery in Cecil county Firetower Farm Brewery in  Colora Md. and meet with Roger Davis who is making some amazing beers on the Kilby dairy farm.

Firetower Farm Brewery

Rachel and Michael visit the wineries of the Gunpowder Wine Trial in Harford and Baltimore County. They also sample some wine cheese that will be featured as part of their, GPWT's 2019 Wine and Cheese Event: Nov 2-3 and Nov 9-10. For more information on the trail, the wineries, the events, and tickets visit gunpowderwinetrail.com  

Gunpowder Wine Trail

 Rachel and Michael visit Ken Carter of Maryland Meadworks in Hyattsville and taste some very incredible meads. marylandmeadworks.com

Maryland Meadworks

On this episode Rachel and Michael visit Sangfroid Distilling a small, artisanal distillery in Hyattsville focusing on fruit-based brandies, and dutch-style gins. sanfroiddistilling.com

Sangfroid Distiling

On this episode Rachel and Michael visit Alecraft Brewery in Bel Air MD. They are two businesses, a full-service home brew supply shop and a Microbrewery specializing in artisanally crafted small-batch brews.   AlecraftBrewery.com

AleCraft Brewery

Michael visits White Tiger Distillery in Forest Hill and talks with owner and founder Itsara Ounnarath, They taste and discuss the spirits produced there that pay homage to and merge cultures.

White Tiger Distillery

Michael visits with Kevin Mooney of Harford Vineyard and Winery and talks about some the challenges of this years vintage and taste some great wines.

Harford Vineyard and Winery

Michael is with Colin Mitchell from Wine World Beer and spirits and they preview Fall seasonal beers : Dogtoberfest from Flying Dog Brewery, Octoberfest from Black Flag Brewing Company, Falling Pumpkin from Falling Branch Brewery, 31 from DuClaw Brewing CompanyDuClaw Brewing and Foxy from Union Craft Brewing

Fall Beers

On this episode Michael sits down with Master Distiller and co-owner  Ryan Vierheller of the Waldorf Maryland distillery in Southern Maryland. They talk about his family's history in distilling and taste some of their finest creations. 

BlueDyer Distilling Company

This week Michael visits with the CMO of Flying Dog Brewery Ben Savage, and they talk about the history of the brewery and what's happening now.....and taste through the East Coast Hop Project  

Flying Dog Brewery

Join us on the "Thirsty Maryland" podcast as we travel into the heart of Maryland's Craft Beverage industry meeting the people and learning their stories and tasting the artisan wines, beers, ciders and spirits of our great state.

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