The oldest bartender in the world is serving beers right outside of Baltimore and he just turned 103 years old! And the crazy thing is, he’s serving out of his own residential home, which is basically like a secret/not so secret basement bar that’s legitimately a basement and legally a bar.
Irv Koch opened up his basement bar 63 years ago after serving in the Navy during World War II. That means he’s been bartending for 63 years including right now when he’s 103 years old.
I was just an out-of-town tourist today, but it was cool to see the hundreds and hundreds of people who came by to celebrate him and to see the impact he had on the local community.
By the way, I don’t know that there’s even a sign and I had to park basically just on some grass on the side of the road lol. Also, his house is on the water so it’s an amazing house.
Places like this don’t exist much anymore, so it’s really cool that I got to experience this. It’s Irv’s Basement Bar…What a great place!