A low amber glow, the clink of heavy glass on wood, a bar back lined with bottles in every shade from straw gold to deep mahogany - this is Baltimore after dark at its most relaxed. The city has a quiet but serious whiskey backbone bartenders who can talk

The first thing you notice at a good whiskey bar in Baltimore isnt the crowd, or the soundtrack, or even the lighting. Its the backbar. Row after row of bottles-rye, single malt, bourbon, Japanese, Irish-stacked like stained glass behind the bartender, cat