Jubilee beer: what was poured on the farm

Updated October 7, 2026

Jubilee Farm Fermentations was a small farm brewery at 19860 Pear Hill Rd in Leonardtown, in St. Mary's County. In early 2026 the brewery moved to Historic St. Mary's City and became The Farthings Fermenter, so this page is the record of what came out of the Leonardtown brewhouse, pieced together from the farm's own site, its Instagram posts and its online store. Where I don't have a number, I'm not going to make one up; the ABVs below are the ones the store lists.

What the beer was supposed to be

The farm's own site described the beer as small batch craft beer with a focus on sustainable, sessionable and fresh local ales. Another line called it experimental yet approachable farm beer brewed on a small scale with rustic techniques. That is a good summary of the philosophy: nothing fussy, nothing meant to be sipped for an hour while you take notes. If you want the longer argument for that approach, see our page on sessionable beer, and for the setup itself, what a farm brewery is.

Moonlite

Moonlite was the dark beer, listed on the farm's store as Moonlite Black Ale at about 4% ABV. A brew-day post showed a mash sample, the mash in action and a Moonlite coming up to a boil, with the hope that a dark beer might bring slightly cooler weather in the middle of a Maryland summer. Later in the season a short-aged bourbon barrel version went on draft, and a little bourbon barrel Moonlite was poured at the final summer session. Short aging means the barrel adds a nudge, not a takeover. That's my read, though, not something the farm spelled out.

Miami Sunrise

Miami Sunrise was the fresh, fruity one. It came back as a new version for the last session of the summer, and at one point the farm offered it with a dash of farm-made local blackberry syrup. The hashtags on those posts, stayfruity and staycool, tell you most of what you need to know about the intent.

The young wines

Beer wasn't the only thing in the glass. Jubilee also poured young red wines: Godsort, Barbera and Cab Franc. They shared the courtyard in the vines with the beer, and the farm used the hashtags smallbeer and youngwine for the season.

Where and when you could drink it

The season poster, shared on the farm's Instagram, billed it as the Premiere 2022 Summer Season: July 2 to August 20, 2022, Saturdays from 3 to 8pm, beer and wine by the glass in a courtyard in the vines, well-behaved dogs and children welcome. The final session was Saturday, August 20.

The later lineup: small beer and wild beer

By the winter drop-offs in Greenbelt, the farm had settled into two families. Small beer, sold in returnable 32-ounce bottles: Moonlite Black Ale at about 4% ABV, a White Label Experimental Ale at about 3.5% ABV described as an American spring ale, and a Blue Label Experimental Ale at about 3.5% ABV described as an English spring ale. Wild beer, in 750 ml bottles: Ace of Base, a spontaneous beer at about 5% ABV. Those numbers come from the farm's own store, still online in October 2026, and they say more about the house style than any tasting note could: three and a half to five percent, fresh, and meant to be drunk by the glass.

Why keep this page

Small farm breweries come and go, and the beer disappears with them. Nobody wrote down recipes, and I'm not going to pretend to reconstruct them. What I can do is list what was poured and when. The beer itself carries on under the new name, The Farthings Fermenter, in Historic St. Mary's City. For the story of the place, head to the about page.