BERLIN, MARYLAND

At a renovated freight train station and feed store in a historic Delmarva downtown, BERLIN BEER COMPANY opened September ’24 (one mile down the road from Burley Brewing). A homebrewer since 2013, owner Adam Davis mans the windowed brew tanks at this rustic aluminum Industrial shed.

There’s a hanging silo and green Berlin Beer Company sign welcoming patrons to the daintily warm and elegant hearth-walled pub. Inside, olden wood beams, original wood floors, Edison-lighted chandelier, barn doors and the oak top bar get displayed below the slanted ceiling. Four-seat tables surrounded the U-shaped bar (with central tap station and a few TV’s). A 50-seat dining room, patioed biergarden and wood porch add further seating.

“Elevated street food” got served alongside five well rounded home brews on my late February ’26 venture.

Spritzy lemon fizz tickled the nose for herbal Saphir-hopped light lager, Lawn Chair, a crisply sessionable pilsner-malted opener.

Flagship New England IPA, Green Suede Shoes, let salty lemony grapefruit and lightly embittered orange rind reach mild oats base in brisk Citra-Mosaic double dry-hopped setting.

A stronger 9.4% ABV NEIPA, Berlin Fog, caressed lemony grapefruit, pineapple and orange rind bittering with pungent pine bluster over creamy vanilla-sugared oated wheat base, gaining fruited vodka, dry rum and candied peach whims.

Brown-sugared peach puree anchored cinnamon-sweetened fruited sour, Ad Libs Peach Cobbler Cinnamon Toast, leaving Fruity Pebbles, limey pina colada and zesty marinade illusions on the tartly tangy peach frontage.

On the dark side, syrupy black chocolate and dark coffee resin swiped nut-charred Forgotten Porter, picking up thin pudding skin crusting.