How do you get into Hidden Tap & Barrel Dover?
We have not confirmed it. Hidden Tap & Barrel Dover is in the directory because it described as hidden, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at Hidden Tap & Barrel Dover
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Old Fashioned, Boulevardier, and Ward Eight are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Hidden Tap & Barrel Dover sits
Hidden Tap & Barrel Dover is in Dover, Delaware, in Kent County, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Dover. If you know another, tell us.
Delaware holds three listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Delaware speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Delaware
Delaware came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Delaware.
What the newspapers recorded in Delaware
Searching the Library of Congress run of Delaware newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Delaware:
- Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial, January 23, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Evening journal, January 24, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Evening journal, January 26, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Evening journal, January 27, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Hidden Tap & Barrel Dover by phone on (302) 552-1919, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 1030 Forrest Ave, Dover, DE 19904-3310. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Hidden Tap & Barrel Dover we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold opening hours, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it hidden.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.