Baltimore breweries band together to help after Hurricane Helene

While nestled a safe distance away in Towson, Pickett Brewing Company’s self-proclaimed “beertender” Eric Kraai watched his two children narrowly escape the destruction of Hurricane Helene. Ellen, 21, who still lives in Boone, a town along the Blue Ridge Mountains about an hour and a half drive from her brother, Andrew, 29, in Asheville, made it out of North Carolina shortly after the Category 4 storm hit. They returned to find their communities devastated.