Love on Tap Craft Beer Festival Back at Seacrets for 2024!

Love on Tap, the region’s most intensely local craft beer festival, is all set for February 24 at Seacrets and there are still plenty of ways to get tickets and hotels. Some you have to pay for, some you don’t. Since free things tend to me more popular than non-free things, lets start with the basics, […]

More Anticipated Than Pumpkin Spice!: OCtoberfest 2023

OCtoberfest 2023 Pumpkin spice may have lost some of its panache for 2023, but pumpkin beers, stouts and Oktoberfest beers have not.  This autumn’s most exciting weekend is October 28th where you can satisfy all your fall beer cravings at the 9th annual OCtoberfest in Ocean City, Maryland. The festival is on Saturday from 1 […]

And the Craft Beer Flowed…

The sun shone down with unexpected warmth on the 6th Annual Shore Craft Beer Fest: OCtoberfest this past Saturday at Sunset Park in Ocean City Md. However, this was OCtoberfest 2020 style.  Gone were the brewery’s booths where guests wandered around with strangers drinking what they wanted when they wanted. Instead, guests were seated at […]

Craft Beer Available During Coronavirus

Craft Beer Available During Coronavirus Shore Craft Beer is keeping tracking of the breweries and the establishments selling craft beer here on the shore. In Maryland, all restaurants and bars along with many other types of businesses were closed by Executive Order. Delaware said all non-essential business need to close on Tues, March 24. Businesses […]

5th Annual SCBF: OCtoberfest video

Festival goers of all ages & species had a great time at Sunset Park in Ocean City! We want to thank all for this wonderful day. Mark your calendars for next year, and join us on Leap Day 2020 for Love On Tap, our next craft beer fest, at the Ocean City Convention Center!

TREAT Definitely not TRICK!: Great Craft Beer Flavors for Fall

New craft beer flavors to try for Fall

As a kid, I mapped out the best & worst places for Trick-or-Treating each year. The worst homes were those that gave out pennies, apples, & toothbrushes – really?! The best stops had lots of categories though. I remember making mental notes for who had full size candy bars, who let you reach in the […]

Swell Fellas and Craft Beer at Ocean City’s Last Sunset Park Party Night

It’s the end of summer and you’re ready to kick-back, drink a local craft beer and relax into your seat listening to live music by a local band. Does this sound like your vision of a perfect Thursday evening in Ocean City, Maryland? It’s our version of perfect as well and it’s totally possible this […]

What’s new this summer at Fin City? Well, that’s up to you.

Fin City has a lot in the works for a summer full of beer “reel-eases” and easy drinking out on the Assawoman Bay (if you’ve never been, they brew up in the rafters of Hooper’s Crab House in West Ocean City). Even so, this year’s Beer of the Summer could actually be determined by you. […]

Fin City gets in the canning game

‘Ocean City’s First Brewery’ delivers Ocean City’s first cans. It’s been a long time coming but the guys and gals at Fin City Brewing Company have brought out the first run of canned beers. A combination of the affordability of canning and the growing demand for good beer in cans was part of the reason […]

This is what a Craft Beer destination looks like

3rd wave is a local craft beer destination

The Eastern Shore is a craft beer destination not because most bars here serve rare craft beers, but because they serve local craft beers. When I started covering the Ocean City HMRA show a decade ago there were two beer bars, and they always were packed. I collected bottle caps at the time and was […]