Wild Goose (beer)

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Wild Goose is a beer brand from the National Brewing Company in Easton, Maryland. It offers traditional British-style ales, including an IPA and an Oatmeal Stout. The Wild Goose Brewery began in 1989 in Cambridge, Maryland, started by Ted Garrish, John Byington, Nancy Davis and Rich Klein. It was meant to be a brewpub, but old Prohibition laws forced it to bottle, making Wild Goose one of Maryland’s first microbreweries after Prohibition. The original label showed crabs and geese, and in 1990 they released Thomas Point Light, later renamed Wild Goose Golden. The first brew was in October 1989, and production grew to about 4,500 cases per month. Wild Goose was sold in bottles and kegs around Annapolis, the Eastern Shore, and parts of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, with the local name Samuel Middleton’s Pale Ale; they also brewed a house beer for Wharf Rat in Baltimore. In 1997, the Frederick Brewing Company bought Wild Goose and started brewing it in Frederick, Maryland in 1998. Logan Shaw Brewing Company bought the brand in December 2010, and in 2015 it was sold to Tim Miller and the National Brewing Company. Snow Goose came back in fall 2017, and now Snow Goose and Wild Goose IPA are available in cans and on draft. Wild Goose IPA won a Gold Medal at the 2008 World Beer Cup.