How do you get into Top Secret Tap Room?
We have not confirmed it. Top Secret Tap Room is in the directory because it described as secret, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at Top Secret Tap Room
How the venue describes itself: “Good food, Great Drinks, Fantastic Memories Set in Fort Ritchie Maryland. The Top Secret Tap Room is the perfect place for a night out.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
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: Bee’s Knees, Southside, and Last Word are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Top Secret Tap Room sits
Top Secret Tap Room is in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, in Washington County, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Fort Ritchie. If you know another, tell us.
Maryland holds nine listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Maryland speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Maryland
Maryland 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 Maryland.
What the newspapers recorded in Maryland
Searching the Library of Congress run of Maryland newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Maryland:
- Maryland independent, January 16, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Evening capital and Maryland gazette, June 3, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Democratic advocate, October 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Maryland independent, April 30, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Top Secret Tap Room by phone on (301) 245-5750, through its own website, and on Facebook and X.
The address is 14332 Barrick Ave, Fort Ritchie, MD 21719. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Top Secret Tap Room 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 a room rather than a bar and calls it secret.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.