Max's Taphouse

Situated on the corner of Broadway and Lancaster, Max’s Taphouse is a serious conquest. If you’re a beer aficionado, you can taste your heart out with its extensive list of hundreds of beers on tap and in bottles, from alemakers around the world and right here in Baltimore. It will take you several weeks or months, or even years, before you can complete the enormous beer list. Behind the bar, you can see the rows and rows of unique beer brands topping the taps like a mike flag; the beer list warns you of each type’s alcohol content, which vary greatly to nearly 16 percent, so you know what you’re in for.

The very large, two-floor, cacophonous bar tends to draw the younger crowd from Johns Hopkins and neighboring universities on weekends.  Its weekday happy hours and popular trivia night on Thursdays, however brings the working professionals looking for a good beer, good burger and entertaining way to unwind after a day at the office. Trivia competition can be quite stiff, as teams vie for the $50 gift certificate to Max’s and several other winnings, such as DVDs.

As any good Baltimore dive bar would have it, Max’s Taphouse also has all your usual bar food favorites and more. It has a lengthy burger list, though not quite to the same extent as its beer menu, and garlic mussels, along with nachos, salads, wings, fries, chips & salsa, and of course, Max’s beer chili.

Since this is city of fiercely proud Ravens and Orioles fans, you can be sure that sports fans are lining the bar on weekends and game nights cheering on their teams during respective seasons. You’ll recognize these days when the entire bar is suddenly very purple or orange.

Lastly, Max’s  is also a competitive regulation dart play house, featuring five dart targets, tournaments and weekly competitions for regionals and amateurs.
 

- by Rin-rin Yu, Washington Reporter for HelloMetro  (Click to leave a message)

Rin-rin Yu

Rin-rin is an award-winning writer and journalist based in the Baltimore-Washington area. Her work has appeared in China Daily, DAYSPA magazine, Luxury Home Design, Aquatics International, Not For Tourists and other publications. Rin-rin has also worked for ABC News, WHDH-TV (NBC) in Boston and Hanley Wood Business Media. She has a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She is an avid world traveler and maintains a travel blog, www.mytravelhats.com.