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Monday Sucks Happy Hour

All Day, All Night happy hour prices every Monday. $1 off drafts from open to close. ($1 off drafts from Bud to Guiness, but not the really high-octane stuff, and not the Belgians.)

Tuesday Beer Social

Join Max's resident Beer Expert Casey Hard, upstairs at Max's in the Mobtown Lounge at 6pm on Tuesdays for the Beer Social. Sample rare and exotic beers at special prices and enjoy guest speakers.

Wednesday Pinch-the-Pint Night

Buy a draft from 5pm to 8pm. We'll serve it in a nifty pint glass featuring the logo of an internationally famous brewer, and you get to keep the glass! Plus, refills in that glass are $1 off all night.

Thursday Quiz-A-Ma-Jig

Your chance to show off your knowledge of useless information while drinking beer. Every Thursday upstairs at Max's in the Mobtown Lounge, it's the infamous Quiz-A-Ma-Jig. The game begins at 9pm sharp.

Friday BIG ASS Draft Happy Hour

Fridays 5 to 8pm your choice of 32oz Draft is just $6Every draft from Bud to Guinness, but not the really the high-octane beers, which you probably don't want 32oz of anyway, or the Belgians. BIG ASS Drafts are served in Big Ass Plastic Cups.

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Hello.We're Max's Taphouse.

Max's Taphouse is Baltimore's premier beer pub. Max's is in the heart of historic Fells Point, just east of the Inner Harbor at Water Taxi Stop #11.

With 140 rotating drafts, 5 Hand-Pumped Cask Ales, and a world-spanning collection of approximately 1200 bottled beers in stock, Max's is legendary for having Maryland's largest selection of local and imported beer. Max's features expert bartenders, a well portioned, above average Pub menu, a superb sound system, more than 18 TVs playing the latest sporting events, a pool table, and a comfortable, quality atmosphere. Private rooms are available for booking that include large screens, custom beer lists and excellent sound systems with iPod connection capability for your personal collection.

News: Max's featured on MSN

Giving Beer Lovers Freedom of Choice | John Rossheim for MSN Local Edition

Yes, the vast bulk of Americans still drink the schlock of beers, from the big brewers that seem to spend more on marketing than on the corn and rice that fill out their bland product. But the bourgeois beer bohemians among us -- whether 20-something hipsters or middle-aged connoisseurs -- are going strong, restlessly racking up exotic brew experiences from Rochefort Trappistes to Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze, like so many notches on a bedpost.

Taverns that feature dozens and dozens of ales and lagers on tap are a trend that's working up a head. If you live within driving (or, better yet, walking) distance of one of these multi-tap beer palaces, you're lucky. But before you order your first draft, a few pointers.

Make sure your pub is obsessive about beer freshness and the hygiene of the great lengths of tubing that connect taps to kegs. "With this many taps, you have to track what you're doing," says Mike Dickson, bar manager at Great Lost Bear, a 69-tap bar in Portland, Maine. "It's constant maintenance."

If keg beer is handled correctly, it is the best bet. "Our keg beer is always fresh; you don't know how long bottles have been on the shelf," says Dickson. "If someone does question a kegged beer, I'll check the date."

The latest malt megatrends: Belgian and Belgian-style beers and cask-conditioned brews, which are handpumped to the glass without the pressure provided by artificial carbonation. "Cask-conditioned beer has just a little natural carbonation," says Dickson. "A regular keg is pressurized to get the beer to the keg." Some connoisseurs say the carbon dioxide and nitrogen used to pressurize the keg add too many bubbles and may degrade the taste.

Now let's see what's available at beer emporia across the nation.

read the full article at msn.com

News: America’s 100 best beer bars: 2011

Max's Taphouse is included in another "Best Beer Bar" list... of course! ;)

"With affordable happy hours and a Tuesday beer social where patrons sip rarities with resident brew expert Casey Hard, Max's is a beer lover's place to be. Of course, it also stocks a whopping 1,000 bottles, 102 taps and five casks, so even if the conversation's lagging, there's no shortage of suds to occupy your tongue."

Read the full article at draftmag.com

Event: Sam Smiths Salute

May 8, 2013

We will be celebrating Sam Smiths with a special Pint night from Bottles featuring a whole bunch of their bottles.

List will be posted soon....

Start time 5pm

Event: American Craft Beer Week

May 13-19, 2013

Max's will be celebrating American Craft beer week and hosting special events each day.

This year we have changed it up a bit.

We will be featuring styles each day :

The styles:
MONDAY 13-SOUR/WILD ALES
ON DRAFT:
The Bruery Sour in the Rye
The Bruery Hottenroth
Pub Dog Wild Cherry Porter
Elysian Mortis
IN BOTTLES:
Allagash FV 13
St Somewhere Serge
St Somewhere Pays Du Soliel
Prairie Artisan Prairie Ale

TUESDAY 14-HOPPY
ON DRAFT:
Maine Lunch
Maine Mo
Ballast Point Sculpin(Nitro)
Ballast Point Dorado
Stone Enjoy by
Stone Double Dry Hopped Ruination
Dogfish Head 120 Minute
Flying Dog Bloodline
Elysian Super Fuzz
Elysian Savant IPA
Lagunitas Fusion 16
21st Amendment Dub Step
21st Amendment Personality Crisis
Burley Oak Aboriginal Gangster
Burley Oak Pale Ryeder
Burley Oak Mob Barley
Brewers Art Double Dry hopped Birdhouse
Smuttynose Big A IPA
Plus Others TBA.........
ON CASK:
Lagunitas Hop Stoopid
Oskar Blues Double Dry Hop Dales
Flying Dog Easy IPA
IN BOTTLES
Stone Dayman

WEDNESDAY 15-BELGIAN STYLE
ON DRAFT:
Evolution Incubator 31
Evolution Special 608
Elysian Backhanded Compliment
Stillwater/Monkey paw Bekantan Saison
St Somewhere/Prairie Plus Tot L'Etat
Oxbow Freestyle #30
Oxbow Saison Noel
Oxbow Sasuga
Goose Island Sofie Paradisi
Schlafly Quad
Sierra Nevada Ovila Quad w/ Plums
Yards Grand cru
Smuttynose Bloom
Brewers Art Biere De Mars
Plus others TBA.........
IN BOTTLES:
Brouwerij West 5
Brouwerij West 6
Brouwerij West 9
Brouwerij West Mor Mor Quad
Mikkeller/Anchorage Invasion farmhouse IPA'
Prairie Artisan Standard
Prairie Artisan Prairie Hop

THURSDAY 16-BARREL AGED
ON DRAFT:
Allagash Oydssey
Blue Mountain Barrel aged Dirty Belgian
Burley Oak Honey Comb
DuClaw Barrel aged Old Falme
Heavy Seas Bourbon Aged Below Decks
Heavy Seas Cabernet Aged Below Decks
Heavy Seas Brandy Holy Sheets
Terrapin cabernet barrel Monks Revenge
Uinta Crooked Line Sea Legs
Yards Bourbon barrel Thomas Jefferson
Anderson Valley Wild Turkey barrel Stout
Plus Others TBA.....
ON CASK:
Heavy Seas Bourbon Peg Leg
heavy Seas Bourbon Siren Noire

FRIDAY 17-DARK ALES
ON DRAFT:
21st Amendment Hendricks Stout
Perennial Ales Mint Chocolate Stout
Perennial Ales Fantastic Voyage
Stone Espresso Russian Imperial Stout
No Li Wrecking ball
Ballast Point Victory at sea
Maine Mean Old Tom (Nitro)
Plus Others TBA.......

SATURDAY 18-EXPERIMENTAL /HYBRID
ON DRAFT:
Stillwater Forty faave
Boulevard/Pretty Things Stingo
Southern Tier oak Unearthly
Yards Bourbon Trubbel De Yards
Smuttynose Wheat Wine
ON CASK:
Burley Oak Rude Boy w/ Toasted marshmellows, Parsnips & Tangelos
IN BOTTLES:
Celestial Meads Belgique
Celestial Meads The Fall

SUNDAY 19-WHEAT/WITS/ALES/LAGERS
ON DRAFT:
Flying Dog Big Black Wit
DuClaw X6
Flying Dog/Evolution Natural Selection:Genus One
Perennial Ales Black Walnut Dunkel
Great Divide Heyday
Plus Others TBA............

Event: Heavy Seas IPA day

May 21, 2013

We will be featuring 6 hoppy beers on draft from our friends at Heavy Seas

ON DRAFT:
Big DIPA
Loose Cannon
Riptide
Black Cannon
Winter Storm

ON CASK:
Powder Monkey

Start time 6pm....