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
WHAT THE HELL IS IN THAT BEER? The rum-soaked cake aged in Colombian rum barrels, smoked sea salt and mango, green tea brewed with sake yeast, and a sour ale made with cola and coconut cream are exactly what this festival is about.
Not every beer needs a weird ingredient to be interesting. We’ve also got incredible barrel aging, wild fermentation, unusual blends, and collaborations.
Preview of draft list as of 10/15:
| 1623 Brewing Vaccaros Rum Cake |
| Abomination Rare Fog |
| Anxo Grand Cru 2025 |
| Birrificio Italiano/De La Senne/Firestone Walker/Privite Landbrauerei Schonram/Bad Seed/Verdant Brewing Sorriso Brut Lager |
| Cantillon Classic Gueuze |
| Checkerspot/Flying Plow Farm/CSA Saison de Flying Plow |
| Commonwealth Mezcalita |
| Crooked Crab Apple Cider Donut Punchline |
| Evil Twin Extra Fancy Gourmet |
| Firestone Walker 29th Anniversary |
| Firestone Walker 2025 Primal Elements Raspberry Blueberry |
| Founders KBS 2022 |
| Harviestoun Old Engine Oil |
| Liefmans Gluhkriek (Serve Hot) |
| Maine Dinner |
| Monocacy Green Geisha |
| Other Half/Burial Beer Co. Mausoleum |
| Other Half/Burial Beer Co./Zillicoach Beer Co. Microbiology |
| Oxbow Pinkette |
| RAR/DEYA Brewing Out Of Order Dirty Soda |
| The Veil Blood Surge |
| The Veil Typhoon Lagoon Tastee |
| Von Trapp/Other Half Collab Series Pale Ale |
| Westmalle Westmalle Duo |
| Other Half/Burial Beer Co. Mausoleum |
| Other Half/Burial Beer Co./Zillicoach Beer Co. Microbiology |
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.