Beer lovers say Maryland could be a brewing capital, but its regulations are scaring away business.
In the middle of white-collar downtown Silver Spring, Denizens Brewing Company is a throwback to America’s manufacturing heyday. A forklift beeps as co-owner Julie Verratti walks the concrete floor, pointing out wooden barrels full of intriguing brews.
“We have everything from tequila barrels to bourbon barrels to mezcal to white wine to rum,” Verratti says. “You name it, if it’s had some sort of alcohol in it, we’re going to age beer in it.”
Denizens has produced a sour ale aged four-and-a-half months in tequila barrels. A Russian imperial stout aged 10 months in bourbon barrels is called the “Chapless Horseman.” Craft brewing is creative that way — not to mention economically stimulating. Denizens employs 30 people, and on warm weekends, tables outside brim with customers quaffing its popular IPAs, pilsners and lagers.
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4 comments:
Leave it to Maryland to have an anal retentive law for every occasion.
It's the end of the world,LOL.
Keeping the craft brewers from growing by capping how much they can produce and sell, and by dictating their hours is foolish.
Legislators bowing down to a mega brewer owned by a non-Maryland corporation is wrong, and shortsighted.
Gotta love politics. They always know whats best....
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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