We rode the Light Rail to the Ravens stadium, arriving shortly before noon, except Jason, who had taken an earlier train. The remaining 7 of us walked to Pigtown and met Jason at Wico Street Beer Company, which had just opened 4½ months earlier. We tried many beers between us; the ones I tried were:

• User Settings (good fruited sour IPA with marionberries)
• Power of the Pomace (pretty good hazy DIPA) (can)
• Game Over (phenolic 12.6% ABV imperial stout)

By the time we left, the weather had gone from cloudy and a bit rainy to mostly sunny. We walked to Suspended Brewing, which opened at the end of 2017 and we had visited on our 2018 crawl. We tried just about every beer they had. I sampled:

• Ivory Shoulders (pretty good Belgian abbey ale)
• Pomegranates in Cairo (decent fruited hibiscus ale)
• Helping Hands (marginal saison)
• Kintsugi (pretty good IPA)
• Leda (great barrel-aged sour) (bottle)
• Watercolor Dreams (quite good farmhouse ale) (bottle)
• Wesley (good hefeweizen)
• Double Black Pearl (good imperial breakfast stout with cinnamon and vanilla)
• Sunrise in Cairo (decent red ale with hibiscus)

Next we walked to Pickett Brewing, which opened on August 31, 2022. We ran into a couple of beer enthusiast friends. I sampled:

• Big Thirsty (pretty good hazy DIPA)
• Entourage Effect (good NEIPA)
• Send it Naked (pretty good farmhouse ale)
• Bigger Garage (pretty good hazy DIPA)
• Crooked Tree (fairly good hazy DIPA)

We walked back to the Light Rail...

... and rode up to the Woodberry stop. A stone's throw from there is Pariah Brewing, which opened on January 21, 2022. It's located where Union Brewing used to be. I tried:

• I Got 6 on it (pretty good hazy DIPA)
• Catch Me Coastin' (pretty good IPA)
• All the Bootleg Snacks (quite good 11.1% ABV stout with condensed milk, vanilla, coconut, chocolate, and cinnamon)
• Silence of the Bock (pretty good doppelbock)
• My Cat from Helles (decent helles)
• Proper ESB (decent)

Next we walked to an assembly of independently owned businesses called Union Collective. Our destination was a brewery but Jason, Gordon, Chris H., Christa, and I decided to visit Baltimore Spirits Company first. It went into business in 2014, started distilling in 2017, and has been at the Union Collective since 2018. It has a tasting room called the Cocktail Gallery. We tried 8 different spirits.

Then we met Chris A. and Ed at Union Craft Brewing (Joe had gone home). Gordon kept wandering off, and we issued a silver alert. Anyway, I sampled:

• Skipjack (pilsner)
• Blackwing (black lager)
• Divine (IPA)

When we left it had started raining again. We walked to Waverly Brewing and the only beer I tried was:

• Simcoeexistence (fairly good IPA)

Before leaving we issued another silver alert for Gordon. Then we got back on the Light Rail, went to the Cultural Center stop, and arrived at Wet City Brewing a little after 8:00. The place had a nice vibe. I tried:

• Hello (hazy IPA)
• Dots and Squiggles (9% ABV barrel-aged sour)
• Dunkel-ish
• Boom Bap (stout)
• NZ Dry-Hopped Pilsner-ish

Our last brewery of the day was The Brewer's Art. We tried all 6 of their drafts:

• Resurrection (abbey brown)
• Beazly (good golden ale)
• Greep Peppercorn Tripel (good)
• Best Foot Forward (best bitter)
• Fortress of Solitude (pale ale)
• Charm City Cherry (brown ale with sour cherries)

It was chilly and windy as we headed back to the Light Rail. We all got off at Cromwell Station. Gordon, Ed, and Jason went home, while Chris H., Christa, Chris A., and I went to Chris A.'s. We'd planned on drinking beer (not that we're alcoholics or anything) but first we wanted some food. Having food delivered would have taken close to an hour, so we went to Honey Bee Diner. After that we were too tired to drink, so Chris H. and Christa went home and I crashed at Chris A.'s.

It was a fun day, with 8 breweries, a distillery, and lots of beers.