{"id":975,"date":"2017-03-21T08:15:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.citywalkerapp.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:40:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:40:26","slug":"mount-vernon-brewpub-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/mount-vernon-brewpub-list\/","title":{"rendered":"This Mount Vernon Brewpub Should Be on Your List"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you find yourself in the Midtown Baltimore neighborhood of Mount Vernon<\/a> looking for a place to indulge in some serious food and even more serious beer, go to the Brewer\u2019s Art<\/a>. Named Esquire Magazine\u2019s \u201cBest Bar in America\u201d for 2009, it also made the list of Draft Magazine\u2019s 100 Best Bars in America 2015, and Gayot\u2019s Top 10 Brewpubs in the US 2017. As far as I\u2019m concerned, the place deserves every kudos.<\/p>\n

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Brewer\u2019s Art has 60 or so seasonal beers, many in the Belgian style. My personal favorite is the GPT, an intoxicating 9% ABV tripel spiced with green peppercorns that is available for a very short time in the winter. I\u2019m also a fan of their regular year-round also-available-in-stores Resurrection (a full-bodied abbey brown ale) and Beazly (a golden \u201cdevil\u201d ale). The latter was originally named Ozzy, after the Black Sabbath singer and MTV reality star, until a cease-and-desist letter from Mr Osbourne put an end to things–ten years after the brew was introduced. I guess it just took him a while to notice. (Note to our neighbors with the dog named Ozzy: you may be next.) And lest you think the Brewer\u2019s Art is only a beer bar<\/a>, I can reassure you that there are fancy house cocktails (and any classics you\u2019d like) and a modest wine list as well.<\/p>\n

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Situated in an elegant rowhouse mansion on a somewhat quiet block of North Charles Street<\/a>, the Brewer\u2019s Art also shows a fair bit of artistry in the kitchen portion of the establishment. The restaurant\u2019s chef is Andrew Weinzirl, who worked previously at Maggie\u2019s Farm<\/a> (which he also co-owned), the Wine Market<\/a>, Chameleon Cafe, and the Dogwood, all very well-regarded Baltimore-area restaurants with strong farm-to-table sensibilities. The menu at Brewer\u2019s Art has, in the past, had strong European influences but Chef Weinzirl\u2019s approach is a little more on the global side. One can still get a dish of pierogies or steak frites, but a recent menu also offered red lentil croquettes in a curry laksa broth that got rave reviews from foodies. Weinzirl has also incorporated beer into several menu items, including a soup of Beazly with celery root, chicken, and dill creme fraiche. He also uses Beazly to steam spicy sambal cockles and to brine the pasture-raised chicken available on the lunch and bar menu. Obviously a very versatile beer, that one. (I\u2019d have no problems if it had been named after me.) Weinzirl has even used spent grain left over from the brewing process in a cornbread appetizer. As they say, waste not want not!<\/p>\n

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Among always-on-the-menu favorites are the rosemary garlic fries. For some reason, people have gotten it in their heads that they are cooked in duck fat, but that\u2019s never been the case. Isn\u2019t rosemary and garlic enough? They\u2019re delish nonetheless, and come with a side of mayonnaise, in the Belgian style. The frites are available in both the dining room and in the bar, but that\u2019s about all their menus have in common, at least at dinner time. If you have a hankering for a burger (the beef comes from local Roseda Farms) with cheddar, beer onions, horseradish pickles, and BA\u2019s version of \u201canimal sauce,\u201d then you\u2019ll have to eat it in the bar. That also goes for the cheesesteak sandwich. And it\u2019s not just any old beef cheesesteak (this ain\u2019t Philly<\/a>)–it\u2019s a lamb cheesesteak, topped with smoked provolone. And roasted mushrooms. And broccolini. When faced with a difficult decision such as this–eat in the dining room or eat in the bar–sometimes the deciding factor is the noise level. On a rollicking evening (pretty much every evening), the decibel level in the bar can be high. Those of us with more sensitive ears might prefer to eat in the dining room, which is a little more reasonable as far as noise is concerned.<\/p>\n

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No matter what you end up doing at the Brewer\u2019s Art–spending some time at the bar tasting various of their fine beers or having a full-blown meal–it\u2019s definitely a place worth stopping by, even if you\u2019re not already in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

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Minxeats Baltimore food blogger and Co-author of the new book,\u00a0Maryland\u2019s Chesapeake: How the Bay and its Bounty Shaped a Cuisine<\/a><\/em>, plus\u00a0Food Lovers\u2019 Guide to Baltimore<\/i><\/a>, and\u00a0Baltimore Chef\u2019s Table<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Editors Note:<\/em>\u00a0One thing we like to do when launching in a\u00a0city is to partner with local writers. This is a key part to the City Walker experience, we don’t only want our app (iOS<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Android<\/a>) to have a local prospective, we want our blog to have it too! This gives the authentic personal prospective that no one other than a local can offer. We are honored to have\u00a0MINXEATS\u00a0be a guest writer for City Walker in Baltimore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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