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.

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