Baltimore is, and has always been, a beer city. Its first manufacturing industry started with a brewery on Hanover street in 1748, opened by German immigrant, John Leonard Barnitz. Previously, beer was brewed by women in their homes, in batches just enough for their own households. However, during the Revolutionary War, commercial brewing picked up as soldiers were promised daily beer rations as incentive. The city was a prime spot for beer production because of its large supply of clean water and access to railroads supplying grain. Brewing beer was a very different process back then, and was fully run by hand. Production was a slow process compared to today, yet Baltimoreans drank with the same gusto.

Station North, less commonly known as North Central Historic District, is a triangular-shaped, 25-block area north of downtown Baltimore. The district is described as “edgy” and “artistic,” home to exhibit spaces, live music venues, murals, and the iconic Club Charles cocktail bar. The area is bordered by North Avenue, Greenmount Avenue, and Falls Road, which runs along Jones Falls, a stream that empties into Baltimore Inner Harbor. John Wilkes Booth, stage actor and President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, is buried in Green Mount Cemetery, which borders the east side of Station North.