Max’s Taphouse

Definitely a must visit. 100 taps, all styles, lots of regional and impressive German and Belgian selections. Food available. Loooong bar, the rest is like a sports bar. Great service too. I could spend the day here.

Amazing place. Huge Irish / American pub / sports bar with an obscene number of taps (there were minimum 80 beers on when we were there) and an uncountable number of bottles. Every style imaginable was covered, with a strong emphasis on Belgian beers. One very positive note for me was that you could order a taster of any draft beer, which means that even a light-weight like me could try a lot of different beers. Service was friendly and efficient. Food looked good but didn’t try any. An absolute must visit! Note that we found the surrounding area (the bar is in Fell’s Point) really cool, with lots of other bars and restaurants.

Been wanting to come here for years! Unfortunately only had 45minutes. This is a place to spend all your money and many hours. Huge draft list and huge bottle list. Decor is fine enough. Bartender friendly. I was waiting outside when they opened for the day. Got smoked rockfish sandwich which was good. I need to come back.

I was worried about parking, but I found free street parking on a crazily narrow street like a half block away, so I win. A block off the waterfront, as noted previously. Place was pretty empty mid-afternoon on a Thursday, so I win again. Taplist is certainly extensive. There were no whales on it, but a lot of solid beers to select from, with a clear focus on regional product. As stated previously, everything is available as 5 oz pours, which is a very nice feature that I wish more places would adopt. The overall ambiance is a bit divey, in a beer geek sort of way. I was planning to avoid the food after some of the reviews, but I ended up with a couple of street tacos, and they pretty much lifted. Probably twice as much carnitas as I would get at a place in Cali, and it was xolid. In any case, this is not necessarily a place to spear a whale, but it is a great place to tick a few and spend some quality beer time. Finally, I just gotta say, you can of course review how you like, but giving a dive beer bar an 8 for not allowing children is a dick move in my book. I have two kids myself, and we eat lunch at brewpubs when on travel, but I would never dream of taking them here, even if they were allowed. Use some common sense.

Certainly deserving of its reputation - one of the bars in all of the US. The place is huge and centrally located right at the Harbour, so on a weekend night, it’s pretty crazy in there. Extensive draught selection that was dominated by hoppy beers when I visited, since they had just had some hoppy fest. Every beer is available in a 5 oz pour, priced individually, so it is a phenomenal opportunity for sampling tons of beers. You could spend hours in here racking up the ticks and enjoy most of them, given the fantastic selection. They have a very good bottle selection too, with even a dozen or so that are heavily discounted - some gems in there. Service can be a bit douchey and abrupt, but given the busyness, I can forgive it - they try their best. Atmosphere is terrible though - it’s a sports bar, and very loud, with terrible tunes and a rather obnoxious clientele. If you only visit one place in Baltimore, this is it.

This place fucks more than any other I'm aware of in B'more. No Natty Boh in this establishment! Just a crapload of taps and bottles. Some pretty interesting stuff too, Belgos and whatnot. Chill dive bar but not too divey 'biance. Prices are as you'd expect.

This place is a block from the inner harbor, if that interests you. Parking at this place sucks, took about twenty minutes of driving around and found a spot then I paid and the machine did not spit out the paper, but at 8pm (on some nights) the spot was free. The place is a worn down dive bar on the corner. This place has a really long bar, but even on a Wednesday night this place was busy (sometimes not that busy on off nights, but every time I have been here people are at the bar), but I was able to get one seat quickly, but as soon as I left a girl swooped in to take the seat. The tap selection was a large selection of some different beer and have tried a couple at times (sometimes nothing I have been looking to try). The bottle selection was also large and I found a gem to consume (and other times did not find anything I wanted to try). Pricing seems to have gone up over the years. Online draft beer menu is mostly up to date. Service has always been pretty good. I would come back, but I suspect this place would get crazy busy on Friday and Saturday nights.

I thought this place was awesome! Tons of cool beers on tap, just have to watch out for freshness. The bartender said they rotate taps pretty regularly because they mostly only mess with sixtels and 30L's. The food left a little to be expected, but I'll definitely be hitting this place again next time I'm around Baltimore!

This place is extremely popular with both beer geeks and the general populace. It’s also in a touristy part of town (the harbor area) so it naturally attracts a lot of tourists. You probably can’t find a better place in town for the selection of brews. Nevertheless, it’s popularity is lost on me. Surly -- I mean, surly! -- bar keeps. Mediocre food. LOUD ambiance -- it’s like a testosterone-packed frat bar, and sorry, but even in college, I didn’t enjoy that level of obnoxiousness. If it were up to me, I’d tear out the sports televisions, replace them with a nice stereo system that places jazz and cool rock music, and hire friendly bartenders. What’s so damned difficult about creating a relaxing place to drink beer?

We came here on 13.4.2017. 84 beers on tap and a really good selection, some rare beers I have not seen before. They have Stiegl Lager on tap!!!! My home town beer. The bar area also due to several sport TV screens is extremely loud and it is hard to have a conversation. They have many special events inviting breweries to their pub.