I'm assuming that someone didn't know the difference between JW Red and Blue- you can't get a glass of Black anywhere in town for less than 6 bucks let alone Blue

You know what they say about assuming, Tif. It was Blue, not Black.

yeah but I've seen it happen in bars many times- the bartender just hits the Johnnie Walker button and the price comes up. I'm not naming names but I had some friends swindle Ryleigh's out of an entire bottle of Green (I think?) b4 they realized they were charging for red. Kinda payback for the crappy service lol

Tif, dude, there was no "Johnny Walker button" at Hops Inn. The bottle was labeled on the back: $3.

wow that's a helluva promotion because at 25 shots a bottle $75 bucks is half the retail price of JWB. Maybe the liq reps tossed them a bottle

I paid $40 for a double at the Hyatt in Savannah. I was flush with "just married" cash at the time, so I can't really complain.

I guess I paid for the view of the river walk.

Waitaminute, waitaminute, let me get this straight:

There's a bar in Baltimore called Hops..... NOT part of the Florida crap-brewpub chain...... and, according to this beer list (http://mysite.verizon.net/vze4dp5p/hopsinn/id7.html), there isn't a damned "hoppy" beer to be found in that place to save your life or lupulins????

Fie on them!

Scene: Hops Inn, Friday night.

Baltimore Beer guru Alexander D. Mitchell IV is in Hops Inn in Dundalk.

Alexander: Barkeep! I'm looking for a hoppy beer.

Bartender: A what?

Alexander: A hoppy beer! Preferably, something aggressively hopped, liked Clipper City Loose Cannon IPA.

Bartender: What the hell are you talking about?

Alexander: Well, this place is called Hops, isn't it? Where are the Hops?

Bartender: Johnny! Reds! Give this smart-aleck what's comin' to him.

External shot of Hops Inn: Two old guys stand outside the bar, puffing on Marlboros. Suddenly, the door bursts open, and Alexander D. Mitchell IV is shoved out the door. He falls down the steps and lands on his rump, his hat crooked and little birdies circling his head.

I was distracted by the fact there are three other Alexander D. Mitchells

Speaking of strange reactions from bartenders, i once asked for a house cab and the bartender picked up the phone, dialed a number and said "they need the address to your house" I say who does? "the taxi service you asked for"

I was riding around Dundalk last night (checking out the best decorated houses for our Christmas light tour tomorrow night) and happened to catch a glimpse of the Hops Inn. It is indeed house, house, house, Hop's, house, house . Love Love Love Dundalk. :)

@ ADMIV: don't most all beers contain some hops?

Most beers--99.98% or so--contain at least some hops. The role of hops in general is to add both a bittering effect to counter the "sweetness" of malt (present even if all the sugars are fermented out), and a preservative effect that makes the beer last longer.

The question becomes whether the hops are even noticeable or not. Beer snobs joke that companies like Bud/Miller/Coors dangle a single hop cone into a tanker-truck load volume of their beer, lest any bitterness come through and "offend" the drinkers that claim to want "smooth" (i.e., uncomplicated, non-bitter) flavors--not that flavor's actually an issue if your beer's so cold it numbs the taste buds. The big beer companies DO add hops (or hop extracts) to their mass-production beers, but at what amounts to merely token levels.

The Hops Inn has absolutely NO beers on that menu with ANY hop character to them. If they want to just get a "token" hoppy beer, their best bet would be either Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or a local beer like Olivers, Clipper City, or Flying Dog/Wild Goose, all of which have a hoppy beer in their portfolios and for whom even their lighter, more pedestrian beers would be a step up in hoppiness. On the other hand, however, it's entirely possible the Hops customers have no interest in beers that actually have flavors, and care more about who advertises during Ravens games, who has a "Swedish Bikini Team" or weird dog mascot......

And BTW, Tif, the name "Alexander Mitchell" is such a stereotypical Scottish name that it would almost pass muster as a cliche, much like Amos Stoltzfus as an Amish name, or Josef Rutkowski as a Polish name, or Joshua Goldstein for a Jewish name.

I actually have a long and convoluted story about my name and the experiences with it that spanned three generations of "Alexander D. Mitchell"'s. Catch me with time to kill at a pub someday and I'll relate it to you.

maybe because Hopps INN is the name of the owner of the place, I grew up in the area and it is nothing more then it seems, don't make out that is is more, but it is a decent, friendly, out of the way place to disappear to and have a good time.

You grew up in the area, seem to know the place, yet you still added an extra "p" to the name? If the bar's name had that extra "p", half of this discussion wouldn't be going on........

I grew up next door to Hops the owner. His wife just passed away in 2008. He had three beautiful daughters. I still talk to them. Hops opened the bar with his brother, I know it was there in 1954 when I moved there. THe bar has never changed in years.