Peabody Heights Brewery turns 15 this weekend. The Baltimore brewery is celebrating with two days of parties on Friday, Nov. 13, and Saturday, Nov. 14, plus four new anniversary beers. Admission is $10 per day, and the events are open to all ages.
“Celebrate 15 years of Baltimore’s Best Brewery, Peabody Heights!” the brewery writes on its event page. Peabody Heights is at 401 East 30th Street, and it is putting on a jazz night first and then a beach party, even though it is mid-November.
Four Peabody Heights Brewery anniversary beers
The four new beers go on sale at 4 p.m. on Friday. Peabody Heights Brewery calls them “new and exclusive,” and the lineup covers a lot of ground, from a sour and a mead to a hazy IPA and a pilsner:
- Banzai Pipeline: a Hurricane sour
- Parana: a Painkiller mead
- Copa Bay: a hazy IPA
- Raglan: a New Zealand pilsner
Two of the four are based on classic tiki cocktails. A Hurricane is the rum-and-passion-fruit drink from New Orleans, and a Painkiller combines rum, pineapple, orange and coconut. The brewery has not shared recipes, so we don’t know how closely each beer follows its cocktail. No ABVs have been posted for any of the four. “Try one or try them all!!” the event page says.
Friday: jazz night with Brandon Woody’s Upendo
Friday runs from 4 to 11 p.m. Doors open and the beers go on sale at 4 p.m. From 6 to 10 p.m., Brandon Woody’s Upendo will play two 60-minute sets. Jazz in a taproom on a Friday night is a relaxed way to start a birthday weekend.
Saturday: a fall beach party
If you can’t make it Friday, Peabody Heights Brewery is throwing a beach-themed party on Saturday from noon to 10 p.m. The lineup:
- Noon: Doors open, with an ice cream truck and a self-service taco bar with a tropical lu’au theme
- 1 to 4 p.m.: Trinidad and Tobago Baltimore Steel Orchestra
- 5 to 5:30 p.m.: The Beach People
- 6 to 6:45 p.m.: The Flying Faders
- 7 to 10 p.m.: Disco Tropico, with DJs James Nasty and Emily Rabbit
Entry is $10 for each day, and kids are welcome because the event is all ages. The brewery’s regular hours are 4 to 11 p.m. on Fridays and noon to 10 p.m. on Saturdays, so the parties fill a normal weekend’s opening hours. Peabody Heights Brewery’s site also lists food and The Dugout arcade, so there is plenty to do between sets.
Plan your visit
- Where: Peabody Heights Brewery, 401 East 30th Street, Baltimore, Maryland
- When: Friday, Nov. 13, 4 to 11 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 14, noon to 10 p.m.
- Cost: $10 per day, all ages
- Beers: Four anniversary releases on sale from 4 p.m. Friday
Fifteen years is a big milestone for an independent brewery. This fall we have also covered Highland’s 30th anniversary in Asheville and Dancing Gnome turning 10. For more Baltimore beer, see our earlier reports on Guinness Open Gate Brewery’s first year in Baltimore and Pariah Brewing’s first Baltimore beers.
Happy 15th to Peabody Heights Brewery. A beach party in November takes some nerve, and we like it.
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