About a mile south of Downtown Baltimore, in the shadow of the Ravens Stadium, and about 15 minutes walk from Orioles Stadium at Camden Yards sits Checkerspot Brewing. This looks to me like a wonderful place to locate a brewery taproom! They have 8 x Ravens and 81 x Orioles regular season home games, all of which should drive decent footfall.
The business is named after the Maryland State butterfly, which is suitably random!
I was there two weeks after they opened and they are operating a relatively modest retail space at the moment, but with plans to expand both outwards and upwards.
Future plans include a kitchen to serve hot food, but they already have a selection of decent cold snacks.
I spent a very pleasant couple of hours working my way through their excellent selection of 12 draft beers, which included a superb cask bitter! The beers were particularly impressive, considering that these were mostly "first production attempts" at each beer. I am very excited to see how good the beers will be in a few months time, when they have perfected the recipes!
I chatted with the owners and was very impressed with their ambitions and enthusiasm for the business. This is a Brewery and Taproom that seems certain to be destined for great things!
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