The Chesapeake Real Ale Festival

This looks ten kinds of awesome.

The event celebrating "real ale" (among many other names) will be held at The Wharf Rat (on Pratt Street) in downtown Baltimore from 1-6 pm on Saturday October 18th.

Tickets are $35 in advance, $45 at the door. A ton of breweries will be there offering their crafted selections of real ale.

Promised offerings:

Barley & Hops: Annapolis Rocks Pale Ale
Brewers Alley: Oatmeal Stout
Brewers Art: Beacon Ale and Seven Beauties Rye
Cape Ann Brewing: Pumpkin Stout
Clipper City: Loose Cannon and Winter Storm
District Chophouse: Bourbon Stout
Dogfish Head: Palo Santa Marron
DuClaw: Alchemy Oatmeal Stout
Flying Dog: Gonzo Imperial Porter
Franklin's: Sierra Madre American Pale and ESB
Growlers: Gaithersburg Nut Brown
Lancaster Brewing: Celtic Rose
Old Dominion: Unfiltered Dry Hopped Ale
Otter Creek: World Tour "Otter Mon" Jamaican Stout
Red Brick Station: Dry hopped Twice Daily Crisis IPA with East Kent Golden and Willamette hops
Rock Bottom (Bethesda): ESB (Extra Scary Beer)
Smuttynose: Old Brown Dog
Troegs: HopBack Amber
Victory Brewing: ESB
Weyerbacher: Old Heathen Imperial Stout
Wharf Rat: Dark Mild, Harvest Ale and Pin of 3 Lions
Wild Goose: IPA
Yards Brewing: General Washington Tavern Porter and Brawler (English ruby mild)

Designated drivers get in free, but won't receive a mug or any of the "many" door prizes.

So uh, have fun if you go and feel free to report back here with details on how things went.

My thanks to Nick Nichols for sending me an email with all the awesome beers that are promised.