{"id":889,"date":"2026-05-11T00:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:38:18","slug":"drinkthis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/drinkthis\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Beers I&#8217;ve Loved; Over 80 and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"789\" src=\"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6181242798_404286215c_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6181242798_404286215c_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6181242798_404286215c_b-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6181242798_404286215c_b-768x592.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Art Underground Studio in Hampden. Somebody stole this sometime during free beer night&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizing and re-organizing all my photos, slowly realized I managed to photograph and try over 80 beers, countless wines and favorite liquors. Almost all the beers are from Micro Brewers, Craft Brewers or Independent Brewers. I found out I wasn&#8217;t a big fan of hoppy IPA&#8217;s but yet there were IPA&#8217;s I did like. Discovered and fell hard for Stouts, Bocks and Hefeweizen beers. A good many of the beers have changed over the years, some breweries are no longer around and some have been bought up by major Breweries. Here&#8217;s an excellent link for more info and differences in <a href=\"https:\/\/thompsonislandbrewing.com\/blog\/whats-the-difference-between-a-craft-brewery-microbrewery-brewpub-amp-gastropub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Brewery Types<\/a> and my main go to for most of this Wonderful Beer &#8211; Wine &#8211; Drink is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewinesource.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The Wine Source\">the Wine Source <\/a>in Hampden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along the way, I learned there are two types of beers, Ales and Lagers. Beer is primarily categorized based on fermentation:&nbsp;Ales&nbsp;(top-fermenting, warmer, faster) and&nbsp;Lagers&nbsp;(bottom-fermenting, colder, slower). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeerstore.ca\/articles\/beer-types-and-styles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"About Lagers and Ales\">About Lagers Vs Ales<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lager<\/strong> &#8211; dominate mainstream beer e.g. Peabody Heights Brewery Old Oriole Park<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>IPA India Pale Ale<\/strong> &#8211; strong hop aroma, citrus, pine, tropical fruit, bold bitterness e.g. Union Craft Steady Eddie<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pilsner<\/strong> &#8211; a lager, bright, crisp, refreshing e.g. Corona Extra<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stout<\/strong> &#8211; an ale, dark, thick, deep, and intense e.g. Guinness Draught Stout<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bock<\/strong> &#8211; a lager but dark e.g. Shiner Bock<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hefeweizen<\/strong> &#8211; an ale, unfiltered beer known for its hazy\/cloudy appearance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Local Baltimore Breweries I&#8217;ve tried<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/peabodyheightsbrewery.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Peabody Heights Brewery<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unioncraftbrewing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Union Craft Brewery<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsbeer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Clipper City Brewery &#8211; Heavy Seas<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/keybrewing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Key Brewery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some drinks I&#8217;ve tried but not pictured includes Fosters, Singha, Michelob Ultra, Yuengling as well as plenty of wines. I actually helped on a engineering project for Clipper City Beer way way way back and it was the first time I noticed the distinct &#8220;aroma&#8221; of a brewery, plus got tipped a few cases of beer! A short description and brewery info captioned. Also included a few wines and whiskey&#8217;s  In no particular order, enjoy the photos, 2 pages&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n\n\n\n<p> Feel free to message Rick Santiago at 443-390-6599<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EK_LN3XEcnw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A little bit of this and a little bit of that&#8230; makes a good drink&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you must know, here are my Favorites!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Peabody Heights &#8211; Old Oriole Park<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bass Ale and Guinness Stout for Black and Tan&#8217;s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Malbec and Merlot Wines<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deanston slight nod over Tequila slight nod over Vodka<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizing and re-organizing all my photos, slowly realized I managed to photograph and try over 80 beers, countless wines and favorite liquors. Almost all the beers are from Micro Brewers, Craft Brewers or Independent Brewers. I found out I wasn&#8217;t a big fan of hoppy IPA&#8217;s but yet there were IPA&#8217;s I did like. Discovered &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/drinkthis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All the Beers I&#8217;ve Loved; Over 80 and Counting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[237,4,236,242,241,238,240,88,18,239,7],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rick-santiago","tag-ale","tag-baltimore","tag-beer","tag-craft-brewers","tag-independent-brewery","tag-lager","tag-micro-brewery","tag-photographs","tag-rick-santiago","tag-stay-thirsty","tag-theunartist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}