About Jubilee Farm Fermentations

Updated October 7, 2026

Jubilee Farm Fermentations was a small farm brewery at 19860 Pear Hill Rd in Leonardtown, in St. Mary's County, Maryland. In early 2026 the brewery moved to Historic St. Mary's City and took a new name, The Farthings Fermenter. This page is the record of what the farm was, built from public sources, because small farm breweries leave a thin paper trail.

The idea

The farm's own site described the beer as small batch craft beer with a focus on sustainable, sessionable and fresh local ales. It also called it experimental yet approachable farm beer, brewed on a small scale with rustic techniques and high standards. That sums up the approach. Small batches, local customers, and beer you could finish a second glass of. If that last part is your thing, see the notes on the beers themselves.

By 2022 the beer reached people through two outlets named on the site: the Home Grown Farm Market and the Greenbelt Farmers Market.

The first summer season

The farm opened its gate for the "Premiere 2022 Summer Season," which ran July 2 through August 20, 2022. The hours were Saturdays, 3 to 8pm. Beer and young wine were poured by the glass in a courtyard set among the vines, and the posts said dogs and kids were welcome.

The lineup included Moonlite, a dark beer that also appeared in a short-aged bourbon barrel version, and Miami Sunrise, a fresh, fruity beer. The young wines were Godsort, Barbera and Cab Franc. I would not call that a big menu, and that was the point. A farm this size makes a few things and makes them fresh.

Out in the community

Jubilee also showed up at local events. In October 2024 it was one of five local producers in the Liquid Assets tastings at Vampire Manor, a new 21-and-over evening on October 18 at the State House of 1676 in Historic St. Mary's City. The Bay Net's write-up lists the others as Xella Winery, Port of Leonardtown Winery, Everyday Saint Brewhouse and Free State Ciders.

Sotterley's SoMD Heritage page lists Jubilee Farm Fermentations Brewery among the craft beverage producers featured at its Heritage event. It describes the brewery as focused on fresh, sessionable farmhouse ales, shaped by historic methods and by what neighborhood farm breweries give a rural community. The Potomac Jazz & Seafood Festival also listed Jubilee as a local craft beer vendor on its food and vendors page.

What happened next: the move to Historic St. Mary's City

The brewery's website went offline in late 2024 and the domain was dropped, but the beer did not stop. Maryland's Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission renewed Jubilee Farm Fermentations LLC's Class 8 farm brewery license, M8-10005, for the year running to April 30, 2026. Then, in its December 2025/January 2026 issue, Mid-Atlantic Brewing News reported that owner Daniel Bedford would move operations from Leonardtown to Historic St. Mary's City in early 2026, rename the brewery The Farthings Fermenter, and keep making rustic and experimental beers for a new Farthings Pub and select accounts in St. Mary's County.

So the Jubilee Farm name belongs to the Leonardtown years, 2020 to 2025. That is why this site reads as an archive. The online store still sold Moonlite and the experimental ales for Greenbelt drop-offs when I checked in October 2026, so if you want the beer itself, look for The Farthings Fermenter.

What this site is now

The site continues as two things. First, an archive of Jubilee's beer and history, starting with the beer page. Second, a Maryland craft beer guide, compiled from brewery sites, state license records and local trade press, with a dated source behind every brewery claim. You will find the guides at /guides/, and if you are interested in what else is brewing near Leonardtown, start with Southern Maryland breweries.

Everything here about other breweries gets checked against recent sources. Everything about Jubilee is past tense, because that is the honest tense.