Max’s Taphouse Rare & Obscure Festival (it's a hike from the parking?)

If you like your craft beer **hard to find, impossible to replace, and just a little weird**, mark your calendar. **Max’s Taphouse Rare & Obscure Festival** returns to Fells Point **October 16 – 18, 2026**, bringing three days of unusual, limited, and downright fascinating beers to Baltimore. Taphouse doors open at **11:30 a.m. each day**, with the festival **free and open to guests 21+**. \#\#\# Discover Beers You Won’t Find Everywhere Else The Rare & Obscure Festival is all about beers that fall outside the ordinary. Each year, Max’s digs deep to find **rare, experimental, small-batch, and hard-to-find beers** from breweries near and far. The 2026 lineup will feature approximately **a dozen rare and obscure draft beers**, with selections ranging from unusual ingredients and experimental brewing techniques to beers that are simply incredibly difficult to find on draft. Previous festivals have featured beers brewed with ingredients including **leaf tobacco, blue honeysuckle haskap berries, cranberry blood, and smoked malt**. What will make it onto the taps in 2026? Preview of draft list as of 8/8 (and yes, this is *really* early; they’re just starting to come in and we are too pumped to gate keep): *Firestone Walker 29th Anniversary* *Birrificio Italiano/De La Senne/Firestone Walker/Privite Landbrauerei Schonram/Bad Seed/Verdant Brewing Sorriso Brut Lager* *Founders KBS 2022* *Harviestoun Old Engine Oil* Rare selections will be available in **5 oz. and 10 oz. pours**, making it easy to sample several beers throughout the weekend. *“Every year, we go digging for beers you just don’t see on draft; stuff with a story, a wild ingredient, or a once-in-a-lifetime taste,” says Jason Scheerer, General Manager of Max’s Taphouse. “This is the weekend we pour the weird, the wonderful, and the impossible to find.”* ## **Come thirsty. The weird stuff is waiting. Cheers.**