May 1, 2025
By Elia Griffin
“Terry Redmond, co-owner of Kensington’s BabyCat Brewery, is optimistic the forthcoming downtown Bethesda outpost of the beerhouse will be open to the public in July, he told Bethesda Today recently.
The Bethesda brewery at 4850 Rugby Ave. in the Woodmont Triangle neighborhood will be BabyCat Brewery’s second location. BabyCat Brewery first opened at 10241 Kensington Parkway in November 2022. The Bethesda location, called BabyCat Brewery + Kitchen, also will feature a kitchen where patrons can order and pick up food.
The brewery’s name is based on co-founder Sam Mussomeli’s cat Alice, a.k.a., “Baby Cat,” a small cat “who never really grew,” Mussomeli told Bethesda Today in 2022. The feline’s face is the brewery’s logo and can be seen on murals around the Kensington location. BabyCat Brewery is run by co-founders Mussomeli and Redmond, as well as business manager Kerry Pratt and head brewer Philip Zanello.”