Baltimore's National Bohemian lager (Natty Boh) on its own, or in the Maryland shandy half-and-half mix with lemonade. The city's signature working-class beer culture, now an icon of Baltimore identity.
National Bohemian, brewed in Baltimore since 1885 under the National Brewing Company, became the city's identity beer through the 20th century, with the one-eyed Mr. Boh mascot painted on Brewer's Hill warehouses. Pabst now brews Natty Boh in North Carolina, but Baltimore drinks the beer with the same fierce loyalty. The customer practice of mixing Natty Boh half-and-half with lemonade is the canonical Maryland shandy bar order, since formalised as a sister product. Max's Taphouse, Of Love and Regret and Chaps Pit Beef all pour Natty Boh on draft.
4 editor picks for Natty Boh and the Maryland shandy in Baltimore, ranked by editorial score. All Baltimore signature dishes · Natty Boh and the Maryland shandy across every city.
Chaps Pit Beef ★ 4.4
greektown · 720 Mapleton Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205
Chaps Pit Beef on Pulaski Highway is the benchmark for Baltimore pit beef, charcoal-grilling top round rare and piling it on a kaiser with tiger sauce.
Mama's on the Half Shell ★ 4.2
canton · 2901 O'Donnell Street, Baltimore, MD 21224
Mama's on the Half Shell on Canton Square is a neighbourhood crab-and-oyster house, working steamed crabs, oysters and a crab cake across two busy floors.
Max's Taphouse ★ 4.1
fells-point · 737 South Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231
Max's Taphouse on Fells Point's Broadway is a beer hall with more than a hundred taps and a deep bottle list, a Baltimore craft-beer institution.
Of Love and Regret ★ 4.1
canton · 1028 South Conkling Street, Baltimore, MD 21224
Of Love and Regret in Brewers Hill is a gastropub from the Stillwater beer team, pairing a tight craft tap list with seasonal plates and Belgian.