Mission:

To promote and celebrate craft beer and the craft brewing industry in Frederick, MD.

About Us:

The small city of Frederick hosts the state's largest brewery in Flying Dog, two brewpubs, Brewer's Alley and Barley & Hops, as well as Monocacy Brewing Company a robust home-brewing community, and a variety of top-notch restaurants and bars. Frederick Beer Week is a celebration of this flourishing craft beer community and is presented by the Flying Dog Brewery. Home to Maryland's second largest incorporated municipality (Frederick), Frederick County has some of the state's most beautiful farm land.

The countryside hosts not only dairies, but also wineries, a hard cider maker, a meadery, two farm breweries - Frey's Brewing Company, and The Milkhouse Brewery at Stillpoint Farm - a boutique hops farm in the east end of Frederick County. Stillpoint is one of five local farms growing and supplying Frederick's brewers with hops and barley.

Flying Dog, Brewer's Alley, Barley & Hops, Stillpoint Farm, local homebrew shop The Flying Barrel, and members of Frederick's Original Ale Makers (FOAM) initially came together to organize a host of events over five days celebrating craft beer and its agricultural roots in the Frederick area. Those five days have since grown to a full week, and the board has grown to include representatives from each of the county's newest breweries.Beer1

The Week was launched with a tweet in the fall of 2010 from Kevin Smith, the Maryland beat writer for the Mid-Atlantic Brewing News, to Flying Dog. The gist of the message was, "hey, you're the biggest brewery in the state, have you ever thought about getting behind a Frederick Beer Week?" The whole thing snowballed from there.

Frederick is now host to a modest beer week, by the standards of neighboring Washington and Baltimore, a beer week designed, first and foremost, to celebrate local beer and its agricultural roots. Join us for the week-long celebration of Frederick beer, and a number of beers from other Maryland brewers. Take the week to find some of the great beer coming out of The Old Line State.