FOOD & BEVERAGE #Guinness @angela_sweeney 1/6 (1/3?) vert tall For more information on Maryland cuisines craft beer and distilling, visit MarylandBeer.org, MarylandSpirits.org, MarylandWine.com and MarylandRestaurants.com . 34 ✥ VISITMARYLAND.ORG | 1-877-333-4455 PHOTOS: LYON DISTILLING CO.; OLD LINE SPIRITS; GUINNESS OPEN GATE BREWERY & BARREL HOUSE; SOMERSET COUNTY TOURISM To enhance all those delicious delicacies, sip on unique, local brews and beverages. Celebrate Maryland’s wine, beer and distilling scene by raising a locally crafted glass of our favorite spirits at one of our internationally recognized wineries or ten wine trails that connect multiple vineyards, meaderies and cider mills. Beer is big business in Maryland with companies like Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick, Monument City Brewing and Union Craft Brewing in Baltimore, and RAR Brewing in Cambridge creating some of the most original and flavorful brews imaginable. The only Guinness brewery in America, the Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House offers a tasting room and bar situated in a large warehouse lined with paintings of blue crabs and terrapins holding their signature drafts. For those after something a little stronger, distilleries, such as Old Line Spirits, Blackwater Distilling and Lyon Distilling Company, are making everything from whiskey to gin with a quality unmatched by bigger stills. BEST BREWERIES, WINERIES & DISTILLERIES Clockwise: Lyon Distilling Company, St. Michaels; Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House, Halethorpe; Smith Island Cake; Old Line Spirits, Baltimore Maryland blue crabs are served fresh from the Chesapeake in abundance from spring to fall and have been a state delicacy since the mid-1800s. Taste this tradition in Ocean City at award-winning Liquid Assets wine bar and bistro for some of the finest bay-to-table dishes and local spirits. Another tradition, Maryland-style rye whiskey, is a timeless, pre-Prohibition antidote brewed with delicate, sweet flavor. Rare & Rye in Ocean City is just one place to give it a try, while world-class waterfront distillery Sagamore Spirit in Baltimore offers a selection of Maryland ryes that’s grown since 1909. ✥ OLD BAY TRADITIONS
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