Maryland Breweries History: Oxford Brewing Company The Oxford Brewing Company started in 1988 as the British Brewing Company and was changed to Oxford in the 1990's. Steve Parkes, a degreed British brewmaster opened the brewery in Glen Burnie, a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, with his partner, British small-businessman, Craig Stuart-Paul. Financing was provided by a third principal, the owner of a chain of real ale pubs in the UK. Parkes' highly-acclaimed cask-conditioned Oxford Class Amber Ale became not only Maryland's pioneer microbrew but its first post-Prohibition cask ale. In 1992 parks left and went to Humboldt brewing in Arcata, CA. The brewery was renamed to Oxford Brewing. In the mid 1990's Oxford did contract brewing for local restaurants and pubs and Beers were brewed for other breweries, among them, Capitol City Brewing Company and Frederick Brewing Company. The Oxford Brewing Company after 10 years of operation brewed its last batch on Dec. 30, 1998. Oxford Brewing was purchased by it's neighbor Clipper City who already did the bottling for Oxford. The Oxford beers became a product line for Clipper City Brewing. As of 2003, Clipper City had abandoned Oxford Class Amber Ale while reformulating and relabeling Raspberrry-Wheat.