Denizens Brewing Company Joins 2024 Street Fest!

Friends of Montgomery Hills is excited to welcome Denizens Brewing Company again as a sponsor, and as our exclusive beer vendor of the 2024 Street Fest! Denizens, which was the first production brewery in Montgomery County, has been a participant in Street Fest since 2018, and has continued to participate even after moving their Silver Spring operations to Riverdale Park. Read more about this local treasure below!

It all started with a conversation around the dinner table in 2012. Emily and Julie, itching to build a business, recruited brother-in-law Jeff to start a brewery.

A year later we opened our doors as the first production brewery in Montgomery County, MD. We partnered with government and community leaders to remove unnecessary, prohibition-era barriers for local beer production and distribution. In the process we pioneered an entirely new business model that has changed the local landscape for craft beer.

In just a few years we grew from a team of 10 to 40, one tap to hundreds around MD, VA, and DC, added a canning and bottling line, launched a barrel aging program, and introduced hard seltzer to our lineup.

We’ve celebrated with neighbors at the Make it Funky Festival, Winter Cask Classic, Drag Nights, Trivia Nights, and more in our taproom and outdoor spaces.

In 2018, Julie joined the board of the National Brewers Association and the board of the Brewers Association of Maryland to continue advocacy for small brewers like Denizens on the state and national level.

And in 2019 we opened our doors in Riverdale Park to expand production capacity to 10,000 barrels per year and added a full scale testing lab and quality assurance and control program.

In 2020 we launched home delivery with the Denizens Beermobile.

We are proud of the business we’ve built and the 150+ beers and hard seltzers we have brewed over the years.

But more than that we’ve built a family – of beer lovers, regular customers, a dedicated team, and local partners – and we’ve deepened our roots in the community we call home. We hope you’ve enjoyed the ride as much as we have and can’t wait to see you in our taproom soon.