Bikes and Beers
Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm
Location: Union Craft Brewing Company
Address: 1700 Union Avenue, Baltimore, MD
We will be manning a tent at Bikes and Beers. If you would like to join us selling jerseys, shirts, and hawking bicycle safety, please email Emily to volunteer! It should be a fun day under the shade of our new tent.
Bikes and Beers Baltimore – 6/20/2015 – A great 15 mile ride followed by an outside festival at Union Craft Brewing! Best of all, they are donating part of the proceeds to Bike Maryland and Bikemore!
What’s included?
Your registration includes:
Official Bikes and Beers Baltimore event pint glass
Two 5 oz samples at Heavy Seas Alehouse and One pint of your choice at Union Craft Brewing
Post-event festival with LIVE MUSIC, FOOD TRUCKS, GAMES!
One raffle ticket for great prizes including 3 new bikes, restaurant gift cards, and much more!
Snacks and water along the ride
Support for Bikemore and Bike MD to advocate for better bicycle infrastructure and safety in Baltimore
Riding through Baltimore seeing all the sights of the city on beautiful day with more than 1,000 other people!
Want to volunteer? Email Sam at sam@bikesandbeers.org!
Event Schedule
Riders will arrive at Union Craft Brewing Company for registration.
Ride start times will be 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, and 11:00 AM. We ask that riders arrive 15 minutes prior to their start time for registration.
Riders will receive a route map as well as registration packet which will include coupons for free beer. Riders will depart from Union Craft at designated times and follow the route to Heavy Seas Alehouse. After Heavy Seas, riders will follow a different route back to the Union Craft and will be greeted with their official event pint glass, a live band, and a ton of games and prizes!
Event Beer Tastings
Heavy Seas has given us a very special opportunity to brew 2 specials beers for the event. The Heavy Seas team will be brewing a special beer and the Bikes and Beers team will be crafting our own (with their help of course!) Riders will get to sample both of the beers and vote for which one they enjoyed more! Each beer will be a 5 oz taster
Union Craft will also be supplying every rider with a free pint of choice at the end of the ride!
Itinerary
9 AM – Riders can begin to show up at Union Craft for registration
–Riders will be sent off
–Arrive at Heavy Seas for 2 samplings
–Depart Heavy Seas and come back to Union Craft for post-event festivities
Route Note: We are teaming with RideWithGPS to provide voice navigation via smartphone for this event! Download the app to your phone and you can easily follow the route with alerts and voice directions for every turn.
Route & Map
The event course is approximately 15 miles. We encourage riders of all skill levels to participate in the event. The ride is very casual and riders can go at their own pace.
We’ll have a huge group of people riding together which will make the atmosphere of the ride comfortable, safe, and enjoyable. Both casual riders and those more experienced should enjoy the variety of sights along the ride.
The 2015 route takes participants through many of Baltimore’s famous sites including Penn Station, City Hall, Inner Harbor, Fells Point, Little Italy, Shot Tower, Museum of Art, the Maryland Zoo, and much more!
